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>> good evening and welcome. This regular business meeting of the edmond school district, board of directors,

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is called to order, and I will do a roll call. Director gerard?

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>> present. >> director kramer? >> present. >> director smith?

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>> present. >> director chase? >> here. >> I'm director katims, so we are complete as a board tonight.

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now, I will ask dr. Miner to do the land acknowledgment.

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>> thank you, director katims. We acknowledge the and regional inhabitants of this place,

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the [inaudible] people, and their successors, the two [inaudible] tribes,

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who since time immemorial have taken care of, hunted, fished, and gathered on these lands.

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we respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

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by acknowledging these homelands, we commit to working with tribal nations to further

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the education aims they have identified in our classrooms and schools.

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>> thank you. Now, if everybody, he'll rise and join me in the flag salute.

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>> next is approval of our agenda. Do I hear a motion and a second to approve our agenda as presented?

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>> move to approve. >> I second. >> I've heard a motion to approve in a second. Is there any discussion?

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hearing none, I'll call for a vote. All of those in favor of approving tonight's agenda as presented,

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please indicate by saying, aye. >> aye. >> all those oppose, nay.

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any abstentions? Tonight's agenda is approved as presented.

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next, we have the superintendent's report. >> once a year, I like to test the theory that a picture is

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worth 1,000 words and so we have a video. This was sent out to our families in the family newsletter,

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but I just wanted to take a few minutes to watch it with the board, our first days of school.

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thank you to curtis campbell, and amanda ralston, our communications team for going out,

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taking pictures, as well as getting them from our principals to celebrate those first couple of days.

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>> thank you. That was a great welcome to everybody to the new school year.

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it's going to be a good one. Next on our agenda is approval of our minutes.

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there are three sets of minutes that we're going to vote on as a group.

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one is the minutes from the august 19, 2025 regular business meeting and one is the minutes from the august 25,

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2025 first day of our special meeting of our board retreat,

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and the other is the minutes from the august 26, 2025 special meeting, the second night of our board retreat.

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do I hear a motion and a second to approve those three sets of minutes?

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>> I move to approve them all on mass. >> I second?

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>> I've heard a motion to approve in a second. Is there any discussion? >> just to note that I'd like to change the name of retreat to long meeting. [laughter]

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>> [background] officially. Yes. Any other comments?

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hearing none, I'll call for a vote. All those approving the three sets of meetings,

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please indicate by saying, aye. >> aye. >> all of opposed say, nay.

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any abstentions? The minutes from the august 19 regular business meeting, the august 25,

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special meeting our board retreat, and august 26, a special meeting of our board retreat are approved.

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next, we have public comments.

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the guidelines regarding public comments are on the district website on each board meeting agenda,

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and there's a copy on the table where everybody signs in to make a comment.

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we ask that you limit your comment to three minutes, please. A timer will be running so that you can monitor your time.

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please be sure to tell us,

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[noise] that wasn't like, part of this.

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[laughter] my time isn't up. [laughter] I still get.

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[laughter] please be sure to tell us your name, your city of residence,

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your relationship to the district, and the agenda item or school district topic that you're addressing tonight.

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public comments are made from this front podium facing us and are directed to the board,

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not to the audience.

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first up is josiah olson or joe olson.

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>> hi. My name is joe. I am a parent.

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I have three children here in the edmond school district. I live in linwood. I think that was all the required items.

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cool. I am here because I have

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two students in the challenge program at terrace park and a kindergartner who's starting,

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who is not yet in the challenge program, and we filled out a waiver to

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allow her to attend that school with her siblings instead of her home school.

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the busing policy previously was that transportation for students on a school waiver is not guaranteed.

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parents are responsible for transporting them. But if there is room on the bus,

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they can take the bus with their siblings. That's what my middle child did when his older sister was in kindergarten.

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that policy just changed this spring, but a number of parents just became aware of it this week as school started.

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it was changed to students on a waiver, get no transportation, no matter what.

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the parents must transport them, and even if there's space on the bus.

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this presents a hardship because now either our youngest needs to go to a home school,

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or I need to spend an hour plus of my day going their home and their home at the beginning and end of the day.

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when there is space on the bus, transportation provided our youngest student a route number and skyward.

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there are other parents who were given a route number. There is a space. But due to this new policy,

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we're basically told that seat needs to sit empty, and you need to get your kid to school.

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this is not only a hardship for the parents who are in this situation,

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it's equity issue because the parents who have the ability to take

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an hour out of their day and transport their younger siblings are the ones with those means and resources,

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and the ones who can't do that, will need to say, I'm going to have to pull my older kids from

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the challenge program so they can all go to their home school, and they can all take that same transportation.

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to me, this seems like an easy win to say, hey, and the policy on transporting the kids specifically says,

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school buses will not alter routes to transport children to school other than which they've been assigned,

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which is totally fair, saying, hey, if we don't have the room, we won't take them.

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but to me, saying, hey, we have an empty seat, and we still won't take them,

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when the resources already allocated and being used, it seems an easy win to me to say,

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we're going to go back to the old policy if we have the space. We'll take them. Thank you.

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>> next up is heather glud.

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>> good evening, members of the board, and thank you for the opportunity to speak.

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my name is heather glud, and I live in linwood, and I'm the parent of a child in the hi-cap program at terrace park elementary,

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who's in his fourth year, and a kindergartner. I'm here to also address transportation of challenged siblings this year.

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first, I want to express my gratitude that siblings were allowed to transfer to terrace park this year.

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if that had not been possible, my family would have been forced into two separate pickups and drop offs every day,

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which would have added 75 minutes to my daily transportation duties

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or required paying $625 a month for the write at school program,

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just to cover those 75 minutes of additional care that my younger child would need at

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the local school until my bust child transportation arrived.

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that burden to parents, especially working parents or single parents like myself is unsustainable,

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both in terms of time and funds. However, the new transportation policy that excludes

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siblings who transferred this year from riding the bus with their brother or sister, even when the bus route already exists and has room has caused problems for our family.

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meanwhile, siblings who transferred in prior years are still permitted to ride,

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and students whose older siblings have graduated on to middle school and no longer have any challenge student in the program are allowed to ride those buses.

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this uneven application raises serious fairness concerns. Families this year are singled out while others benefit from exceptions.

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the impact is especially harsh for families commuting from the farthest corners of the district,

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which includes some of our more socioeconomically diverse populations.

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for them, being forced to provide transportation can mean daily commutes of 90 minutes or more every single day.

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it's an impossible strain. Just sending siblings to the neighborhood school is not a real solution.

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varying school start times and transportation needs make it impossible for many parents to cover two different drop offs.

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in some cases, this will force parents to withdraw their child from the highly capable program,

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not because of academics, but because of transportation logistics. Adding to the urgency is how this policy change was communicated.

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when transfers were approved in the spring, it was not clear that the rules had changed to exclude

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siblings from transportation even when seats were available.

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families could not have anticipated this interpretation, because it is so illogical,

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it makes no sense to interpret it this way. We've also been told in the past that because this is a standard form, obviously,

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it applies when you can't transport and add additional routes, it does not apply in this case as long as seats are available.

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if we had understood it at the time, we could have addressed this policy back in the spring and had

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these conversation when there was additional time to have a fair and transparent process.

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instead, we're now scrambling in september to cope with the decision we didn't know was coming.

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[noise] thank you for your time and your continued commitment to supporting students all across our district.

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>> thank you. Next is sarah dilling.

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>> hello. My name is sarah dilling. I am a taxpayer in mount lake terrace,

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because my children no longer go here because they're both at college. Thank you.

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I've been watching in the last couple of meetings, have seen speakers speaking about

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title 9 and so I just wanted to do a little history lesson. In 1972, the educational amendments to

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update title 7 of the civil rights act of 1964 were passed, and they are called title 9.

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in june 1975, in volume 34 of the cfr in section 106.

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how it was going to happen got put into law. Since 1975, the federal government issues guidance.

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the original statute made no explicit mention of sports. It says, in the beginning,

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no person in the united states shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in,

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be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.

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now, a brief timeline for transgender issues. Obama issued some guidance,

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bathroom use, which seems odd for a president to have to do, but okay.

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in 2018, the health and human services had a rollback of that policy.

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in august of 2020, a federal court found that discrimination on

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the basis of gender identity was prohibited under title 9. Then, in march of 8th of 2021,

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biden issued an executive order, 14021. June 16, 2021, the department of education had a notice of interpretation.

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in 2024, the admin school district had a policy update. In january 5th of 2025,

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a federal judge rolled back that 2021 interpretation. In february of 2025,

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the admin school district had a policy rollback. In february of 2025,

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trump issued an executive order of 14201. We haven't had the department of education notice nor the subsequent years and years of

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court challenges to determine how we should respond to this piece of the whiplash back and forth.

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also, currently, the adams county sheriff is attempting

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to comply with federal guidance on immigration in violation of washington laws.

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the washington ag is currently seeking an injunction against the adams county sheriff for violating washington laws.

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in short, I don't think that we should change our policy just now because things keep changing.

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they keep moving back and forth. I think that for our sports teams,

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it's best to stay in compliance with wiaa policies, and then washington laws and policies,

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and then federal laws and policies. I think we should focus on graduation rates rather

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than culture war distractions. Thank you.

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>> thank you. Jess grant is next.

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>> good segue. Thank you for that topical introduction.

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my name is jess grant high. I live in north edmonds,

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and I am here tonight to urge you to repeal policy 3211,

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the gender inclusive schools policy. This policy harms the girls in our district in so many ways,

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and it exposes the district to legal liability for physical injuries sustained as a result of this ill conceived policy.

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tomorrow, I'll send you a link to the website on the independent women's law center,

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a nonprofit nonpartisan 501c3, who recently published a 68 page report entitled competition,

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title 9, male athletes, and the threat to women's sports.

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>> tonight, I want to highlight the safety issues posed by a policy that allows boys to compete against girls,

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and stress how this puts everyone, both athlete and district board members,

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at physical or legal risk. Peyton mcnabb, as an ambassador for the women's law center here,

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in her own words, is the reason she now fights for fairness in women's sports.

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at september 1, 2022, I suffered permanent physical and neurological injuries

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sustained during a high school volleyball game in my junior year.

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a male athlete who identified as a female on the opposing team spiked the ball into my head,

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and I was knocked unconscious for over 30 seconds. A medical evaluation revealed that the ball's impact had caused a concussion,

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brain bleeding, and severe head and neck injuries. I continue to suffer vision problems,

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memory loss, and partial paralysis. This incident ended my aspirations of playing

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college sports and ignited my advocacy for the protection of women's sports.

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I hope that policymakers who were in a position to make athletic decisions will read

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the independent women's report and prioritize fairness and safety for all female athletes.

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now, you might think, but this hardly ever happens. You'd be surprised.

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if you go to the website one.org, you'll find a spreadsheet containing the names of

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several thousand female athletes displaced by male pretenders.

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you can also visit echetd.org to find another spreadsheet

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containing the names of males who've deprived females of their rightful athletic honors.

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to quote the harvard university biologist, carol hooven.

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"the essence of sports categories is exclusion. If you're 20 years old,

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you are excluded from participating in the senior category because of your natural advantages".

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the female category is no different. Thank you for your time.

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>> thank you. Next is vanita francisco.

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>> good evening. Vanita francisco, city of mount la terrace,

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and a parent to a student at mount la terrace high school. I have three things that I'd like to mention to you today.

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two, if I run out of time. They were all in today's family newsletter from the district.

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and so I have multiple hats that I wear, so league of women voters badge.

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we are celebrating constitution day here in the edmond school district building on september 16.

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so please join your neighbors and friends for a special celebration of us constitution day.

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the league of women voters of snohomish county and edmond school district are hosting

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a community reading of the us constitution and bill of rights at 6:00 p.m. Right here in this building.

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the event honors the 238th anniversary of the signing of the constitution,

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and constitution sorry, citizenship day, which is recognized annually on september 17.

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munity members will take turns reading these historic documents, offering everyone an opportunity to reflect on the rights and freedoms they guarantee.

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in addition to the readings, the league of women voters will provide free pocket copies,

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sized copies of the constitution, and share information on ways that you can support democracy.

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so we hope you'll come with your families. Next up is city of mount leeris diversity, equity inclusion commission.

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so the city of mount leeris, in partnership with edmonds school district, is excited to join together for welcoming week on september 20 on september 20.

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we are hosting welcoming week and annual campaign where communities across the country host events,

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educational seminars, and celebrations to honor our neighbors and of all backgrounds highlight the importance of

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inclusive places in achieving collective prosperity. These events reaffirm our values of building welcoming communities where every person,

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including refugees and immigrants can fully contribute and have their voices heard.

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so we encourage you to come and participate and see all the community resources that are available to everyone in our community.

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and there is time, so last but not least, wearing my pta council hat.

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I will say that the 17th annual mad monster dash is happening.

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so please sign up for the 5k on saturday, october 4, which will be at in mount lake terrace, as well,

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the lake ballinger area and park. So I hope to see you around before the next meeting or after that. Thanks.

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>> thank you. Next on the agenda is our consent agenda.

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this is the group of regular routine items that we can vote on and discuss together,

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or separate if we wanted to choose to separate them. Tonight's agenda has four items.

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to have to do with personnel and staff. One is an agreement with the rotary, which is wonderful.

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it's through cte, and it's our students in carpentry who,

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for something like 51 years, have built a single-family home for somebody, which is wonderful.

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and the fourth one has to do with surplusing equipment.

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do I hear a motion in a second to approve the consent agenda for tonight as presented?

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>> I'll move to approve the consent agenda.

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>> second. >> I've heard a motion to approve in a second. Is there any discussion?

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>> I had a couple of things I wanted to comment on. I want to thank the negotiators for

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the district and for the union for being able to come to a agreement on this three-year contract.

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quickly, fairly quickly. I know it's hard work,

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preparing for that and executing that negotiation,

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and they were able to have a tentative agreement by the end of june, I believe.

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and so we're happy to be able to ratify that tonight.

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and I also want to say again that the cte the carpentry.

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I have one of my former students from hilltop that was in the carpenter program last year,

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and it's just what a great thing to do to partner first,

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the partnership, build that partnership with the rotary, and to have practical learning that's

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going to benefit our community as well is just tremendous.

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>> thank you. >> I just want to comment that the rotary program really is wonderful.

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my son participated in that, and it's still in connection with a number of the other students in that program.

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>> very cool. >> really thrilled. >> very cool. Anything else? Hearing nothing else.

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I'll call for a vote. All those in favor of approving tonight's consent agenda as presented.

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please indicate by saying aye. >> aye. >> all those opposed. Any abstentions.

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and tonight's consent agenda is approved as presented. The next section is our unfinished business.

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we have item 10.1, a second reading with request for approval of new board policy 69,60.

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>> so do I hear a motion in a second to approve. Excuse me, the new board policy 69,60,

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which is regarding school attendance areas and boundary changes.

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>> move to approve. >> I'll second. >> I've heard a motion to approve in a second.

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is there any discussion? I believe this is basically the same as what we saw in the first reading,

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with one minor change. That's correct. Hearing no further discussion. I'll call for a vote.

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all those in favor of approving the new board policy 69,60 regarding school attendance areas and boundary changes,

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please indicate by saying aye. >> aye. >> all those opposed. Any abstentions.

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and the new board policy 69 60 for school attendance areas and boundary changes is approved.

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>> we have two items of new business this evening. The first is a first reading.

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no action requested at this time to review proposed changes to board policy 2110.

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>> is there any discussion on board? Excuse me.

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proposed changes to board policy 2110, which is about the transitional bilingual instructional program.

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>> I just wanted to say how much I appreciate the idea that this is

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an asset to the students to be able to be biliterate and bilingual,

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and that we should foster that ability and encourage it.

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>> I think most of the changes have to do with excuse me, explicitly,

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including as I lose my voice,

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the dual language program, which the classes I have visited have been wonderfully exciting to talk to those kids.

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in fact, I'm starting to take beginning spanish, so I can talk to them as well in spanish.

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any other comments or questions? >> you just need to go sit in the kindergarten class and immersion for a while.

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>> I learned a lot in the last. >> I know. It's drill. The instructors are amazing.

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>> I don't hearing no changes, we'll bring that forward to you for your consideration at the next meeting for

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a second reading and proposed action. The next one is 11.2, first reading,

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no action to review proposed changes to board policy 2020.

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just a little bit of background on this one that senate bill 54,

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62 required that by august 1, school district board of directors across the state,

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amend their policies or procedures, go governing curriculum adoptions to align with the wada model policies.

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>> is there discussion on board policy 2020 on course design,

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selection, and adoption of instructional materials?

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I would like to say, I am not happy about the fact that the legislature

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is telling us what our policy should say in terms of our curriculum,

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our instruction, our design, our scope and sequence, basically.

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and talk about being removed from the classroom and trying to legislate what's going on in the classroom,

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what's happened to our local control over those things?

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I've posed some questions to doctor miner, and she's going to be doing a little bit of research

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to get a sense of what we might do to make sure that everything that is important to our district is not lost here,

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but that we somehow protect our domain,

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which it should be our domain as to what we do in the district in terms of curriculum and instructional design.

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so I just wanted to make my little speech. >> and the only other policy I'm aware of,

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in which we are required by law to adopt the wada-recommended policy, intimidation and bullying.

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and that came about some time ago, and that was the first of this,

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where we have to adopt the wada policy.

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>> and that seems almost more understandable than this,

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and that's really based in a great deal of law, whereas this is really a great deal of policy,

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school district policy and procedures.

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and we'll see what happens before the next time.

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look at us. We are on board member comments.

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moving right along. Doctor director gerard.

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>> well, I wanted to say that I was at the fara and 44th in linwood on saturday.

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so I saw dr. Sally guzman staffing our little tent booth,

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and we had a bus there as well. So I talked to that bus driver who's driven for our district for 33 years.

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very impressive. And she was being very welcoming, and lots of little kids were

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interested in climbing on the school bus. And sitting in her seat.

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the only time they get to do that. Looking forward to this coming week,

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or next week, I'll be visiting lindale elementary. I got met the principal, mr. Nwnn,

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at the fair, and so he invited me to visit.

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so I'm going to take him up on that offer next week. And then I will also be on the pitch with

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the mont lake terrace and madodale high school girls' soccer teams. So I'm looking forward to that game next week as well.

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>> thank you, director kramer. >> hi, I just want to give a huge shout-out of

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thanks and appreciation to all the classroom teachers out there, particularly the kindergarten teachers.

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they're the ones that welcome our youngest among us. And my wife is now teaching kindergarten as well,

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and she came back utterly exhausted. But excited, too, excited.

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and as I begin my first year in education,

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I want to shout out to all those teachers of

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a certain age like myself who still have a passion for what we do.

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so thank you to all of those teachers out there, and hope your first week,

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first full week back is a great one. Thank you.

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>> thank you. Director smith. >> first, I want to thank the parents who brought to

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our attention a potential issue with our bus policy. I will ask dr. Myer for some more details,

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figure out what's going on there. If it is really something as simple as just an empty seat that we can put a kid on,

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that's something as a district that we probably ought to do. So I'll make sure to follow up on that.

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you have been heard. And then I also wanted to a little self-congratulatory,

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but I wanted to give a little shout-out to the mount terrace class of 2004.

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vince dimiro sent out an e mail earlier this week, and I did not realize that we have a journalist

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basically in residence there who also came from my class, samantha pack,

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who works with the hawkeye students, and I just think that that's pretty cool that it says something about the teachers

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who were there at that time that we've got now two individuals from the class of four,

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myself and her, who are giving back to the district in very meaningful ways.

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so that's partially a shadow to us, but also to all the teachers who were there in 2004,

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who shepherded us and taught us the importance of giving back to our community.

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>> thank you. Director chase.

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>> thank you very much. I just on this first week of school,

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I just want to express my gratitude to all the teachers, staff, families that make our school district a

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welcoming place for all of our students and families to belong.

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I'm just really looking forward to a great year, and I will pass the mike.

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>> I want to thank the board for the long meeting,

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as it's been renamed our board retreat. And so the community knows.

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what we did is we spent a lot of very important focused time looking at the district strategic plan,

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doing a lot of planning in terms of study sessions for next year,

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what we want to focus on, our board norms and protocols,

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and a number of other important things. And I just want to thank my board colleagues.

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we don't always agree on everything, but we listen to each other, and we always stay focused on students and what really matters.

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so I really appreciate that. Long meeting, even though it was hard.

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and the only other thing I was going to say is, I'm going to be one of the people,

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along with dr. Minor, reading the constitution next tuesday here in the board room.

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so come on down and get your own pocket version of the constitution.

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and thanks to the league of women voters into vanita, you organize a lot of important things.

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>> doctor miner. >> well, I want to build on what howe,

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director kramer has shared with us. We have so many.

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I have the opportunity to visit about half the schools on the first day, but someone from our team gets out to every single school.

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and just to see everybody from para educators to our bus drivers,

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to our administrators, to our teachers, making students feel welcome and greeting them at the school.

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I don't think everyone understands what

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a monumental undertaking is to get school started and rolling.

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and at a middle school, when you think about the fact that half your students are new every year, currently.

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there's new routines every year. I'm very pleased with how relatively smoothly everything went,

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and deep gratitude to all the people who made that happen.

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and looking forward to a wonderful year, as well as constitution day.

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>> and with that, this regular business meeting at the edmund school district board of directors is adjourned.