I am pleased to report we have a plethora of of gifts from the community that's a good thing

it's College and Career Readiness it's not just college readiness it's you know all the stuff we do with the trades to enable high school kids to actually work with carpenters and construction people it's the auto shop it's the videography and photography shop it's the woodworking shop that there a printing shop that's at par with any commercial printer in the Metro that we can have kids that graduate from high school and walk right Dr program yeah so I think it's we we are however you want to look at it we are contributing to help our kids be let say a good Workforce maybe I'm not vain enough to say the world's best Workforce but we're contributing to that so both from College perspective and a career perspective so I think that's good

I would say that we are um in different places in different um areas so like in graduation we are certainly uh above where the where the state is if you compare our District overall as well as if you look specifically at Raaz we're well above um some of our um comparative and uh for sure the state um if you look at some of our our reading and math scores specifically we're typically behind the state um and we're also behind of where we were um you know prior to the pandemic

the decreasing reliability of quantitative data to accurately portray success and achievement yeah okay and if you look at you know like like it's red or green right it's like yes or no stop or go red or green ahead or behind so Jake you just said we're behind the state in math and reading scores but you know I would say subjectively we're marginally behind I me it's just a percentage or two or three it's it's not a lot and where we're ahead we're way ahead and we're making progress and when you couple that with the fact as we pointed out in one of our meetings somewhere that if if that's judged by the MCAS those are optional yeah so kids don't have to take them and the partip ation rate was was what percent I came or what it was it was low it was like at the high school level it is really impacted at elementary it's it's quite and so and so kids don't even have to take the tests and so the numbers that we're showing are numbers from a smaller cohort of kids who have self- selected or their families have self- selected that they will take the test versus not take the test so the degree to which you know it used to be you could say what do the numbers say the numbers are less and less meaningful I think which is and I don't know how to deal with that I mean I really don't you can't just ignore them but then what is it is it a mix of things you do and how do you bring qualitative stuff in so I worry about that measures right well yeah and it's not just us it's every school in the state is facing the same thing right now so how do how do you really tell how we're doing it's hard

these are some additional courses that have come from this fall uh we did do a whole uh slate of courses that came through in the spring so these are some additional courses um that we're looking to offer

this process is to add the courses into the course registration guide but we also need student enrollment we need Student interests that really drive us literally offering and running the course right just a bit of a delineation right so the course is approved but if a very low insufficient number of students register then it might not actually be implemented because there won't be enough to have a class is there correct