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running back phone is not sure she's at work 843 your call has been forwarded to an automatic maybe Mississippi Boy will be the same as we were last time even faster be able to finish faster today I hope so be great today I know how that is I think have Mary Allison mobile good evening okay today how is everybody else hello everyone hello hello going to write Miss Ryland yes I am thank you you doing good yes ma'am 529 yes ma'am we have our journey with us I'm single and how are you doing hope you all are well as well I have five 39 this bold and you can go ahead and get started on Thursday September 23rd at is thymus 5:30 will call this meeting to order the role call is being established we have present Miss green mr. McCoy has Fraser Miss Jarrell this Mitchell Miss Rollins this rally tumor and this is all day so we are hundred percent here today notification to the media as required by South Carolina code of laws of 1976 as amended section 34 - 80 local news media notified of the date time and place and purpose of this meeting at this time the chair will entertain a motion for the approval of the agenda some will Madame chairperson Lorraine that we approve our agenda what's it like in New Orleans approve the agenda for this afternoon work session to a policy meeting disgusting board policy seat and eat and I are there any questions are no questions all those in favor let me know by any opposes is unanimous the agenda has been approved Miss Rollins would you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance please a pleasant the flag United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all take a break silence thank you we are now our attorney Allison Hanner to discuss board policy Cee and I turning yes so we had a good discussion on Tuesday that dealt with sections see any we had very few revisions they have been made by the administration and are ready for second reading which means approval and then the rest of our meeting will be discussing section I section II deals with instructional matters related to students it is it is actually the longest section in any policy manual and we have about 15 policies to kind of just briefly review most of what needs to be reviewed is not really much substance in the sense of decisions to be made other than really it's more administrative like what position is going to be responsible for receiving complaints about something but didn't want to go through those cuz they're there about 15-20 policies there Section 8 is is basically based on South Carolina state law and State Department of Education regulations for example you have to have a policy that deals with physical education was so social studies with Matt but there's you don't have any leeway with what your math program is you know you have to offer certain math social studies you have to offer certain things up for example the deal with constant Sunday Veterans Day so section. There's very very little leeway that you have and if you see me looking down as soon as I've got my phone which is where I have my notes for certain of these policies we were just kind of start scrolling through we can go over I mean. Yeah I was thinking I could we could we approves d and e can we go through those since we are just doing the few revisions that we have on those two policies that was pulled up I think it was three policies and then we can do why are you would rather do it all one time since you can actually approving and I were just so if you would take those three I think that was CBD CBI and teag for the three that we pulled so what so what the most it would be is that you're going to prove C & E as approved last week with revisions to those three policies as soon eat you to get your email with the updated policy that was sent out today I haven't okay so trying to Hannah would you just go over those three policies briefly but since everyone didn't get an opportunity to read it just what the changes the three basic policies wanted that with the superintendent's contract and we were going to delete two of the paragraphs I'm just because the contract itself controls not the policy so there's no need to have a conflict between the policy in the contract so that's all that was done in this policy as was discussed so that is CBD that was what was discussed on Tuesday and then the next policy are there any questions before she moves on to the next policy OK Google the next evaluation of the superintendent and again this is largely driven by the contract itself and said the only thing we did was as we discussed that the second paragraph there was some conflict between what the policy says and what the contract says so we tried to keep it pretty open-ended and so the one sentence was deleted in the one that's added as the board and superintendent annually will consider in good faith with a valuation methods will best serve the district consistent with contractual obligations the board will determine the specific written instrument to be used to be used this just changed it to the board and superintendent have to agree on the instrument because ultimately it's the boards valuation inside the board gets is that the instrument however you do have to consider in good faith and that's required by the by the contract any questions on CBI b e a g this one was deals with student transportation and private vehicles and it was just updated to actually include what your actual policy is in the district if you were called this is one that had a lot of options and different examples and so we just made it how you all actually conduct business are there any questions regarding eat age today I do have a question do with the one with like after-school activities right am I I could be could be after school activities it's just in general transportation of students in private Vehicles okay where does superintendent are their dads and they will I guess give the permission if it's an extreme condition so I guess whenever two staff members are they will have access to the branch and endured at designating phone number to contact them to get that permission yes the wife is in my experience over the years the way this this this part of the policy comes into play let's say you have a student that needs to be transported home during the school day cuz a parent can come get cat can't come get them so it's going to be an administrator into might be the principal and assistant principal it might be a principal and you know this. Accra Terry we don't want to have one person taking the child home but we would have to people and yes the principal would have access to the superintendent of her. is demoy do you have a question if not can I have one more the one about no less than two staff members or in the vehicle for the duration of the trip what if there's like an extreme circumstance will they receive written permission I would say there is if there is an just a true true emergency yes we could have something at the superintendent could authorize someone to transport so let's let's say we had to transport somebody hospital and is an extreme emergency and we can't get anybody else there yes somebody would you know authorized that that would that would be just very case Pacific this is really trying to say we don't want to have individual put a situation where they have kids in the car by themselves any other questions we're going to take a motion to approve the second reading of policy c and e with the changes made to see b and c b d i the items on the second reading policies with provisions a b c b i n d e a g II for celebrating the move by Miss Mitchell and second by Miss green to accept the second reading as a policy see with the revisions made to the three policy CBDs CBI and eat me a G are there any questions okay I'm going to call the road for the boat this green is demoy Miss Fraser I list Chris Mitchell Miss Rollins I miss Riley AR stroller GoldenEye motion passed unanimously second reading has been approved for those policies okay okay if we can go down to Sean to the list of the section II policies where we had a couple of questions comments discussion funny thing is the way it was saved in my system is not in alphabetical order so I don't have to look between emails so section i8 first policy can we get it back on the screen so I had said notes to the to Dodger Anderson to look at so some of this is new for me that is what needed to happen because the how the School Board Association sent it was with drafters notes and with options and so this one we just needed to add what the the tricks goals are so that that is what you see and read so this this isn't Guinness first reading so this would be not a not a revision this is just first reading it looks different to you based on my comments to them today so this is not anything that is this is just what your educational goals are so I would recommend you look at this before second reading at your October board meeting if you're if you're already adopted beliefs in mission statement need questions for IA estate the next policy Hannah I just need to see on the list out which one it it comes up I this deals with an again this was options that the school board's in loaded and so your Administration has updated it so I give this is not anything that needs much discussion it's just the different options of how you structure your grades at the school's so again it's not a revision it's just something that need to be added so that you can add second reading any questions for regarding i e proceed again this is this is a policy that is not a revision we just needed to put a statement at the end on what limits on Virtual instruction you have because that's required because of the covid regulations you but basically it's it's you know 5% plushies for second just for second reading purposes this is what this is what you have and again I want to stress that most of section II you have almost no control over its just inserting like kind of sum administrative issues this this policy here talks about character education and there was an option and so again in Ministry and his going in and selected the options appropriate for your school district music education again we need to just to insert in their what levels you teach music and your schools and that is what the red is your Administration has updated that this this this policy also had an odd Turn On The Lights of courses for Old and New Testament you all did not offer that Corso is a deletion from the draft policy and again this is just an update please make me do it do you have a question Reboot system away oh I'm sorry I'm sorry I was seeing if she could have liked me on the religious because this is serious I just want to know I want to know what it entails and what I'm voting for I have a 1 I'm not sure I can hear it kind of broke up if he's asking of you to Enlighten him regarding the religious policy on the religious instruction but since we do teach it you know you can scroll back to page one this is a policy that deals with how religion is taught in the schools and it just talks about how you're not going to you're not going to be promoting any one religion or religion in general called in music and history and English a students won't be penalized for being absent for religious holidays they won't be penalized for discussing religion and any assignments where it's appropriate so for example if the question is who is the most influential purse and your wife living or dead and someone writes about Jesus Christ that is appropriate you're not going to be penalized for that so but then there's the School Board Association including that second page some school dist it is allowed by law but some districts offer a life of course at the high school in the Old and New Testament most schools do not you all do not offer it so we're just removing that from your policy thank you this is technology resources again we just had to update who who is the the person that needs to be reported to when people use the internet and other technology in an inappropriate manner so again we just cleaned it up based on your administrative structure field trips we had a couple of issues here that I wanted to make sure we looked at there was a there was a list about shop Frontier and it only included Elementary in high school and it didn't say middle school so I think the way it's been changed is just a secondary again Clean cleaning up some things that just you just to make sure we're clear this is grading information and again it just had to be updated for how you all in in the district provide feedback and grades to your students at different levels and since all of this is on birth rate this will make it much easier for second reading unless that week we come across something that you all don't like they'll be no revisions that need to be made for second reading cuz this is still frustrating tonight with Section I is it this one we would need to go in and take out the grafters note that still up there but again there are options that you have to to fill in we can go just make that red or dark stripe through it cuz this is still first reading again we had to feel and how you do the credit and content glasses homework again there was a Mets or should so should homework be provided may it be provided and so you all have you know that the administration is is May again we're just cleaning it up promotion attention oh you had some language down here that deals with academic assistance that needed to be updated for your school district just a couple Pages here there you go see we just dropped through and this is the academic assistance that you actually provide in your District we just needed to make it was current this goes along with that same policy and it deals with actually how you were handling it in the district this is your criteria for promotion retention and acceleration of students again most of this particularly at the at the 9 through 12 level is required by state law you have some different things with the read to succeed at third grade and it was some promotion I'm at the middle school level but again this is just clarified what's your actual practices are what's that policy number again I can't eat a shark. Ok this deals with graduation requirements high school credit for work who is going to be responsible for payment of fees if a child does a class that's not but about the district whether it's virtual from another College another program and so that was just an option to clarified that the student is an action that that's we need to actually pick one of those options there so we can probably now who will pay the tuition cost will be the the student and parents or is it the district the district it's on phone Cardenas in the district does pay that now right for the dual enrollment she's meeting here give me a yes did not make the adjustment there is because you know at this time although we do get funding that can pay for that gets there's no guarantee that funding is always available so we put the or there as long as we have but if for some reason we ever get into a situation where funding is not available then it will have to be a parent option so that would be the district literally guarantee that the district would have to pay it but not necessarily by the funding options that we that we currently use now and some of those options are there some years and some of those options are not there it's just that we've been blessed to be able at least the last 4 years so maybe what we want to suggest for revision I just and I apologize for being out of your screen I just had a spider that crawled up my leg and so that's why I was like I'm a bug verse so sorry but comes back I'm like going to be doing it again maybe some type of language pending funding availability the district will pay for it otherwise it will be parent responsibilities any other questions on this policy no ma'am this would also require dusters to pics options and make sure that it was in line with what you were doing as a district which is what was done this one we don't see which one i k f c yes. but we need to decide the option that the district has a local Awards District occupational wards for you then waited for you yes it's on my side I can't see it ABS next one deals with observances are there was one question about student-led messages NASA graduations and athletic events district and added area that has been stricken so this is just based on state law what's left let that has been updated for your District as well what is that policy because I IMD and this is the two minutes to two messages at the beginning of athletic event for graduation ceremonies I believe that was the last one yeah I know we have the flag displays but I guess we have no option on that one oh I a question regarding i m g animals in school so it is a proven I mean cuz everybody now claims serve so is this the dog and the cat I mean do we have to specify what this is about what kind of animals you allowed to have is like clasp senior school there is a separate policy for a students and adults who need a service animal as that's based on the Ada this is just straight-up teachers to have fish and maybe a hamster or I have it but not if you can up stakes and I think it said snakes and spiders keep looking for but I'm just do what kind of animal you have in your class who takes care of them who has to pay for them if you know if the class hamster get sick the school's not going to be for it to go to the vet that is separate from service animals when make sure and we do have an in our firm across the state we have probably 5 to 6 service animal issues a year is typically dogs we've had at least one service is there called miniature ponies that are service animals but that's kind of a misstatement cuz they're really like not even as big as a Great Dane they're still big but they're not it's not what but I think you and I would all think of is like a a pony but we basically have service dogs guinea pigs and all that for the class I will tell you as an aside I my family ended up with the hamster One Summer it is bad when Cars the movie was very popular in my oldest son was about first grade or so at the time and we ended up with Stuart Lightning McQueen Hannah the lived at our house for 3 months and I will tell you I am never having another hamster in our house because they they don't sleep at they're nocturnal so the thing runs all night long every night okay all right in each section on first reading and basically we've made the changes today did tonight so the only thing that will need to be done on 2nd Reed in October is adopted on second reading cuz there's no more changes to be made sounds good all right I didn't questions for attorney Hannah from anyone for members well thank you very much this is very informative and speed are all about policies so at this time, is there a motion to accept the first reading of section eye4eye policies madame chairperson motion that we accept the first reading of our policy section I I'll second that has been moved by Miss green and second by Miss tumor to accept first reading of policy I are there any questions how do you vote Miss green voice for the Moab boy is waving a razor Miss Mitchell I felt her I saw her mouth is Rollins I do deny it is unanimous section I first reading has been approved Herring nothing else the chair will entertain a motion to adjourn at 6:05 Adam air I make a motion to adjourn at 6:05 second screens to adjourn at 6 or 5 is there any question are we not all those in favor let it be known by I wave your hand turn at 6:05 thank you very much we will see you all soon

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