I feel like we can all agree that grade is supposed to measure how much a student like grows and learns throughout a course of a a classroom. But we all agreed that it kind of feels like grades are kind of measuring our effort or what we put into the classroom, which sometimes it can make us feel like when we get a bad grade that we're not smart enough or we can't handle the course break.

So our thought process was like for each subject like all English classes, all science classes, all math classes will have the same grading scale and it's not up to like teacher interpretation because then someone like two people can be in the same math class, but if one teacher's grading scale is different or like they grade it on a curve and the other doesn't, then they would get different scores and that doesn't really make sense.

If the goal of education in high school is for everybody to learn, like I think it's more beneficial that people take retakes and learn more versus just succeeding and failing.

if a student does like poorly on the first test and then they ace the retake, if they learned the content, does it really matter when they learned it? You know, like if if they understand it at the end, I feel like that's what matters most.

I think if the formatives could be narrowed down to like material that that will actually like benefit us and like help us learn the content because some of it it's like content adjacent but that's not very helpful I guess.

obviously right now ICE is in our community, like taking our peers and there hasn't been a public statement from the district to address this... ISIS's actions are no longer a political issue, they're a moral issue.

So according to the statement that you've all promised to uphold, the school board's job in short is to support and encourage every student to continue learning and giving the option for online learning and sending vague messages about safety is helpful but it's not enough.

informing students and staff of ISIS's rights entering schools and like the protocol we would follow if they enter the property without legal requirements... it wouldn't be a political lesson. It would just be like informative in the same way like we get taught about what to do if there's school shooters or if there's strangers in the building.

If you're neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. So, please just keep that in mind.

I mean, this is exactly why we have student board reps. This is exactly why. And so, thank you so much for for for saying that.

My concern with this outcome is that it's hard to determine, at least on the surface, if this is really due to a decrease in bullying in school or if this is a decrease in reporting.

The reason we do that is because typically, and this happens, you know, you'll you'll find bond votes that that tends to be a little um tighter split. I want to say we're probably in the 55 56% pass range. But once people see what was done, the feedback changes pretty substantially.

if there are process measures um or appropriate outcome measures that reflect the feedback that we got from our students today. I would like that to be included going forward um just so that we don't lose sight of it um and so they know that their feedback was um not only considered but um you know integrated.

all budget requests should have a cost-neutral effect, meaning any proposed increase in the budget capacity in an area should have an offsetting budget reduction in another area

your expenditures projected to help pace beginning in just 26 by 19.7 million.

as we see the new shift to def deficit spending become realized this year, I think that we're going to need to have some real conversations about the pace of this deficit spending.

our hands were very tied this year and one of the um big curve balls is this used to always be a lease levy. Um, so it would go into our building lease side. Um, and that is no longer there was a change in interpretation at MDE, so that is no longer allowed.