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Berkeley County Board of Education Meeting - February 21, 2023

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Of the board meeting on February 7 2023.

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Make a motion second,.

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There's a motion by Mr Ramsey, a second by Miss Littleton. Is there any discussion hearing none I'll call the question all in favor, please respond by saying aye aye opposed, nay the eyes. Have it. Eight zero I'll now entertain a motion to enter into executive session. Make.

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Second, there's a motion by Mr Ramsey, a second by Miss Littleton. The stated purpose of executive session is discussion of release of teachers from employment contracts and or appointment of administrator or administrators as needed receipt of legal advice regarding Penny sales, tax referendum projects, a foia request from the Post and Courier for public records, public records protected by attorney-client privilege and attorney work, product, Doctrine and the potential disclosure thereof. Is there any discussion hearing? None will call the question all in favor, please respond by saying aye, aye opposed, nay the eyes. Have it eight zero?

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We are now in executive session. Thank you.

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Our team is excited about upcoming conversations.

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You look around here, it's comfortable. We have so many small businesses that add to our community. It's like it adds to our flavor.

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What Berkeley County is and it's a place where everybody's coming for the same thing and that's what school is about, we're all coming there for the the same thing and that's a a quality education, and so this is a very good place to start to have a conversation, brown, sugar, brown, sugar, yes, coffee and conversations, it's just an opportunity for me to have like genuine conversations with community members in our neighborhoods close to our schools. It tears down this wall. That seems, like you, can't get to the superintendent I think these are good.

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Opportunities to you know get to know me as a person, and then we can have just conversations about what's going well within our schools. What would community community members like to see more of with a very good education? We can close, you know gaps, we can build Bridges, we can break down barriers. I think we together can make that positive difference. Thank.

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You thank you appreciate it all right.

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I really like to see what the kids come up with. They.

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Can't wait to get here to do this. This is one of their favorite parts of the day. They.

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Just take a lot of pride in what they're doing and that stands out and let's talk about the goals for today, our team is: has worked really hard on trying to use technology in innovative ways what it means to be an entrepreneur and we're all entrepreneurs right now, because we're starting our own business aren't we.

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They learn to be entrepreneurs, they learn some technology skills to combine with that to create products.

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That's the focus for this unit is really about being an entrepreneur about taking an idea creating a business around that idea. I.

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Love it when they're smiling and when they're so excited, to tell you about what they're doing I'm.

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Working on this.

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Tic-Tac-Toe thing after they've researched and having their head what they want to create. They took some time you know drawing it by hand, they created their Google, drawing that mirrored their original drawing and then from there they uploaded it to the software, and so once they were able to do that, they could actually see the laser cutter in action.

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We printed these Hearts made out of like acrylic acrylic plastic.

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If they like the model- and they felt good rather than the next step- was really to begin advertising.

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The thing I most like doing is like doing the commercial. Are you bored doing homework I can fix that when I get home I just start working on this. If.

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You're going to do it on your own time, you definitely have to enjoy.

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It it has been really fun. It's a lot of hard work. I look forward to it a lot because I'm really excited about it.

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They're so excited to share their success and they have some awesome projects that they've created for this Valentine's.

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Store we give out tickets to each student at kinghoi, so they're able to come into the Valentine's Day shop, go around to each vendor each student and and learn about what they have to sell and then choose one item and that very special item. They get to take home with them.

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You know they're feeling that sense of accomplishment and success, and so that's what excites me the most about it when they're excited about what they did and telling you how they did it I'm.

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Going to be super excited because, like I work, super hard on this, so I hope they enjoy it. They've.

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Gained so much self-confidence, so they understand they do possess the qualities that they need to be successful and have those accomplishments, and it is wonderful to.

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See I love to come to work every day and Cain Hoy is a very special place and you can't describe the feeling that you have when you're watching a kid excited about school. You want them to want to be here. You want them to see that hey what I'm learning here is going to make a difference. For me, one day.

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500 is going to be your Youth Court law, ad I love being the first face, people see Beta Club, that's another really good club I recommend you join so when I'm doing tours and things I make sure that I'm the first fresh face that they see just all science classes. So what I'm giving them tours and things like that they get excited about the school, so mainly English stuff like that down this hallway. This is going to be your earth.

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Science, classroom and I, really like the idea of making sure that their first day goes smoothly.

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My name is Addie. I am in 10th grade at Goose, Creek, High, School, I,.

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Think we would send.

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Out a Google form.

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I am a gator Ambassador, and that is someone who just kind of helps around the school. They do chores for new students, so we can put Ethan on the posters. A gator Ambassador helps with everything not in this class, but for that event he will I'm also part of National Honor, Society, Beta Club right.

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Mercy yeah Round of Applause in.

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Beta everyone has the same interests, they usually all are leaders and they want what's good for themselves and for the future and so I love feeling, like I'm, a part of a community with.

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I love knowing that I'm putting my time into things that matter, one of the main people who helped give me a lot of leadership roles was Ms Cooper.

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Most importantly, there's action items I, think that if you can teach a kid to be a leader that you are preparing them for.

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Life in my freshman year, I think she saw something quote unquote special in me.

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She is not shy, she is so well put together. She is such a big heart and she takes on these leadership roles and she's also very connected to our student body in a way that makes their voice heard.

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I just I overall love what I do I love helping out around the school I love when making like and creating relationships with people just.

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To sit back and watch her lead, others is just it's truly humbling. I.

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She wants to make her parents proud, she wants to make her teachers proud, but, more importantly, she wants to make herself proud of of what she does and who.

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She is, she saw something that I didn't even see in myself when I first got here and.

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She said she saw something I didn't see in myself. That made me a little sad because I'm like you, how can you not see it she's just.

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She was kind of one of those people who kind of pushed the leadership out of me, even though I knew it was already there. She just gave me the roles and made me feel welcome to be a.

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Leader in our school, so I think that's every Educator's ultimate goal is for for them to see themselves how we see them. I.

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Love the fact that I have more of a purpose um and I want to come to school. I want to be involved in things, I, just love being around leadership around people who are leaders, it's just very rewarding, knowing how far I've come talk.

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About changing culture, that's how you do it, you have somebody that's a freshman or sophomore, and then they see them and they are empowered to lead, and then they get others to lead and that's what I'm most excited for for her.

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I, like making people feel as though they're a part of a community and like they have friends, people.

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Remember her for a long time, long after she's graduated.

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These kids come up day after day.

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There's no Second Chances. All we got is one shot. One opportunity you.

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Feel like a part of something that's like bigger than like yourself, whether.

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We we're practicing in the morning we're practicing the evening. They continue to show up those few.

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Seconds are crucial, bigger than like what you can just do. In a normal day, you lose.

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Those to two seconds that can cost you the entire meet.

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We don't win Meats the day of the meet we win meets at practice, good.

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Time time, good time, guys good time, good.

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Time it doesn't look like it when we're running with it, but those are 75 pounds sometimes.

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I'm, just like I really I, don't want to do this anymore, like I, feel like just throwing in the towel. Dropping the shoes and just like done.

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But you got to keep pushing you.

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Need to stop being selfish, and you know look at this like this- is like a great opportunity. You know like I I, wouldn't want to miss out on it.

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We are the Elite Physical Fitness team of Junior ROTC. All teams are made up of nine individuals and then the mixed team has to have a minimum of four females on the team. You could have as many as nine females, but the team must have four females on the team to be considered a mixed team for the Raiders I. Don't think that people truly understand the athletes, the high performance athletes that we truly have on this team and what it takes to excel at such a high.

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Level on this team, even on a bad day, we're going to beat most teams out here. That's a beautiful thing, good, excellent work, excellent work.

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Every event is unique that it not only challenges their physical fitness, our rope bridge, for example. There.

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Can only be two people crossing at the same time doesn't necessarily require the greatest amount of physical fitness. You go from that low hanging rope to just straight up tight, but.

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When it comes to teamwork and alertness and attention to detail, it's probably the most demanding.

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First place Timberland.

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Once they caught that up, we all just like look at each other and, like my mom, even has it on video or like we just saw like you know we go forward and then like as soon as you know, they give like a round of applause. We turn on and like we're just like smiling at each other hugging each other. You got a few people like crying. They.

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Cried at the state meet and I'm pretty sure we have some pictures floating around there for that um I have I hugged my mom and I was just overwhelmed with emotions and I started crying because I didn't know what to do. At that point, I mean you just won State. What are you going next? You know.

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Again, please give them a round of applause.

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This year, not only were was our co-ed or mixed team Raider state champions, but our male team was uh runner-ups for the state championships. So on both sides of the house. We uh we excelled.

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On behalf of God parents, we are so proud of y'all.

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It's never happened before, so we felt like I, don't know on top of the world. These.

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Kids have achieved something that most will never achieve in their life, even as adults, but this is something they can always look back up on and say if I was able to do that, what else can I do if I can achieve that? I can achieve anything in life as long as I'm willing to work for it does.

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Everybody know their place on the log 100 percent.

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Every day is an opportunity for me to to plant a seed and, to you know, provide some type of long-lasting. Hopefully, lifelong impact on these young men and women ROTC is is about creating a family, creating a culture, it's more of a family than it is a.

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He is probably the biggest influence on my life. um There have been days where I did not want to continue, and he pushed me through that somebody.

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Always has you back whether you're at home at school, you know hanging out with your friends he's.

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Always there no matter what, even, if you mess up he's like a father, what.

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Do those words mean to you when you think of that when they say that about you.

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um When they say that about me, it's affirmation of the things that I'm doing.

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I said it's just an affirmation that uh what I'm doing each day is really making an impact, and that's that's important to me.

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He cares about like the U 10 years from now. Like I, don't know he always just pushes us to be like the best person that we could be.

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I want you to look back at this 10 years from now going and Sarah had she he really cared about me. He really was teaching me something he was really instilling values in me. That necessarily didn't appreciate then, but I sure do now, and without that I wouldn't be the man or woman that I am today.

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I think one of the best things about working here at Phillips Simmons is my co-workers. I love the unity among the staff and the camaraderie I feel like we all get along really well, I! Think that's what makes working here and teaching here so fun. Happy, twins, happy, twins, twins day is something that we have been doing for about four years now. Every Wednesday.

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Miss Bowen and I just like to match it's just something: fun.

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To break up the week, one of our sayings used to be that we could remind people what day of the week it was. We.

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Plan our outfits the night before and it's fun the kids kind of get in on it too. And it's something to look forward to.

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Started as an accident, we would show up to work a couple times where pretty similar outfits, our.

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Classic outfit is like black pants, like.

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White tea and a jean jacket.

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It just kind of okay, we'll do it again and then again and it then just became a thing: every Wednesday and Wednesdays did it once we were like now. We need to keep this up haven't skipped a day. We have a couple pictures of when she's, not here or during covid and I, had to quarantine and.

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She had to teach from home, so we had I had her on my smart board and then I was standing, and someone took our picture of me in the smart board. So never miss this Wednesday she's a real-life twin. She is a real life twin, a real life Twins.

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Winning yeah, but most of the time, it's just what we have in our closet. We got this shirt as a gift. A student bought us these shirts.

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Here's our first, our initial photo twins day it's available, and then we had these two trying to copy us. I think the people that are so nitpicky, like your Apple watch, bands, don't match.

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That's not the same purple wears like your bracelet, your watch band and that just like makes it fun, but I think it's just.

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Fun to have the people picking on us and something to to look forward to in the week twins day, Phillies Wednesday, everyone I'm, even wearing my official Twins Day shirt I, feel like.

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It does bring the school together and I think that's. Our goal is to bring joy during the week. It's just something fun to show people.

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We, like our jobs, we have fun at our jobs because we're still here.

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For the kids, Happy.

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We are celebrating Travis Peabody and his 16th birthday decorate the room, the surprise them when they came in the balloons and the cakes.

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I was really surprised. I was happy. Oh.

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I was happy too, I was I was surprised and he was surprised and we like to see him. Smile would like to see him happy he's.

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Funny he's always upbeat and positive and he's one of the faces of Berkeley High School he's.

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A good kid and he's funny kid hunting's, one of my favorite things: I like hunting more and staying.

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At home me and Travis have a little bit of a connection with the hunting industry and wanted to do something so I just reached out to a few people to network that I've known and they just took off with it. My.

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Man Travis it's Dave Owens with the pin Cody project how's it going buddy. Somebody told me: it was your birthday in your big deer and turkey hunter. Like me, they.

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Sent birthday videos to them, they wish him happy birthday and they invited him to personally come hunt with them, some big name hunters and send them some presents. How.

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Would you and your family like to come down to Georgia next year in the spring and Chase an old turkey with me, I've got it set up for you to go. It's my birthday present to you. It.

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Was special because Travis knew some of these names and the people that reached out and I knew. That would just be something that would just excite.

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Him it made me feel like I've got a lot of friends. I got a. This is like a big Village I've.

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Always said it took a village with with that file. That's as sick as Travis is, each time we Branch out hunting and we meet more people. Our village grows I'm beyond words where our village is it's awesome. There's.

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Only one of these I'm about to show you in this world.

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It's your own personal Berkeley,.

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Just enjoyed Travis so anything just to do with Travis and the kids at Berkeley. High School, is what we're here.

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For I would just like to thank everybody that knows Travis that comes into Travis's life. That does anything for us anything for Travis. Thank you. So much for the life.

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They've, given him, thank you all for doing this. For me, party was fun.

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I love him he's just amazing. A people.

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Fun loving every morning he comes in and he he walks by my room he's like hey, Miss, Atkins,.

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Pleasant attitude, just a good student to be around.

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My name is Delan hugee I'm, a junior at Cross, High School.

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The word I owe you describing because he's a dog I.

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Love the game playing on the court.

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He plays hard intense.

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And he's still on top of us about school, I.

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Always stress to them: they're student athletes, student athletes, first.

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He just made us run out of the day for getting in trouble in class. They.

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Know, that's non-negotiable. You don't do the right thing in class. You won't play and I'm gonna teach you how to contact me. You know you're going to pay. I always tell them I'm more proud of anything you do in the classroom than on the basketball court.

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In seventh grade, we typically look at our upcoming sixth graders. So when it came down to delarin, he had some behavioral issues. I.

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Kept getting in trouble, he.

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Got into some little incidents here and there planning.

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Classes with other students getting suspended I did it to myself as.

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Time went on and as he got older, he just got progressively better if.

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You get older, you got to mature.

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The behaviors that we were looking for, we didn't see you.

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Got to have the right people around you that push you to do better. He.

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Sought out help we made sure he got it. He was receptive to all the supports that we were giving him. He.

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Just pushed me in school most definitely like Miss Atkins. Every.

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Day is about the students for me we're using the inverse operation. My name is Angel Adkins and I'm. The person that he'll come to when he needs something and.

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If she can't do it, then she's going to tell him who he needs to go to to get it done. So she is his go-to person. That's.

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Why I really was in that class for behavior and not like working wise I'll? Do my work academically.

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His grades were always where they needed to be. He just did like a 360.

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I'm, the student council, advisor and delarian is not on the student council, but on Fridays we do popcorn sales and I was short help. One day, I was stressed, he's like Miss I can stop stressing it's okay, we got this I see how he tells other students. Like you, know, man. Why aren't you.

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Doing your work, you need to do your work. He just not only behaved for himself, but he was impacting his peers. I'm.

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Gonna be honest with you, that's really really! Well, you want to get a diploma easy. He.

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Didn't want to earn a certificate, he wanted to earn a high school diploma and he's making that happen. He.

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Wanted it for himself and he's doing everything he needs to do to make sure that he is successful. I.

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Mean part of his continuous growth, because from what I hear he was a problem, child I don't have any of those issues out of him now.

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With him making that change has inspired other students to do the right thing and follow.

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His path, he sees himself as I was there and now I'm here so I think other students definitely definitely will look up to him and.

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That's better than any win any loss in on the basketball court. Seeing him win in real life is the most important thing. Are you proud of yourself? You.

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Myself, why would you say that.

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Because I feel like I'm on the right path, it's.

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Just why we do what we do, it's because of students like.

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Him and it's all because of the maturity and him deciding that the behavior that he may have been displaying, wasn't working he's.

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More to the world you got to keep grinding, though crying and get a diploma, so you could be something in life, work hard for what you want and don't live in it. Nobody tell you that you can't achieve your goals.

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It's party time we have hot dogs, hamburgers, baked beans, everything you could possibly need. We have, and it's all for them.

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They let us know that we really appreciate it. Thank you for all that you do. They tell us this all the time we hear it now, they're, showing it and they're really showing they're really big. Today,.

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Is called party party where we are celebrating a bus driver, Appreciation, Week.

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Everybody get together and they fellowship and we have a lot of eating and feeding everybody laughing everybody's full. We're.

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Family doing this appreciation week for the bus drivers and the monitors and the AIDS. It brought us closer.

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To know that they're, the first people up in the morning and probably the last people to get home like I, truly value them, because their job is very hard and I I commend them on what they're doing every day and they come back. The.

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Next thing: we do it all over again, because this is what we love to do. They don't have to be if they're willing to they're here, because of the.

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Kids, it's worth it for the kids. We try to greet them with that good morning, hello. You know that hug that smile some.

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Of the kids come on, the bus and they're, just like so can have a bad day a bad morning, but when they see our face, demeanor change.

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Even at the end of the day, the bus driver is the last person that they'll see as far as education, wise that drops them off appreciation.

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That you guys give to us we're returning back by coming through and doing what we need to do every day, all day, all.

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About the kids.

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Thank you for what you do, because we all are one Community when I was a senior in college. I said: if I ever were to get out and make a difference. Let me go and help these kids so they'd be better prepared when they came to college and I thought. I could really go out and change the world. From that standpoint, I'm Willis, Sanders I, was in the school district 41 years I'm a native of Berkeley County, my homie here from Cross I love, love, Berkeley County.

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My dad always told me do a great job where you are do the best job that you can and that would provide the opportunity to someone who might think you want to move. Do a better job at another level. So when I was a teacher, I poured my heart out of being a teacher.

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She said: that's all she ever wanted a piece of my artwork and she's been here 20 years, I said: you've been there that long having I've gotten a piece of my artwork, so you can get folks to do anything if you can get them motivated and inspired to do it. So that was that's how I use my artwork so Savannah? Here's your piece, kids knew that I could draw. They wanted. My artwork I said well, if you want what my artwork is, what you have to do.

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We came up with a program ready to win my artwork, so from from the time of 1981 was a principal all the way through principleship assistant superintendent, known as a community person I'm still producing and sharing my artwork. Thank.

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No one can tell about where you work better than the person who work in the system. If someone wanted to come to work for Berkeley, County, School, District I would say it's a great place to work. Sometimes it's not all about the salary but at the work environment and when they realized that they could they're making a difference because of the environment. That's what my theme is sharing time talents and treasures they're the heart of a purposeful life.

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Hearing the cacophonous sounds of our kids warming up. It's.

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Really loud and it it's kind of like at first it made my head hurt kind of it sounds.

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Kind of comforting, It, Feels Like Home feels like Stratford that.

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Just tells us that we're about to embark on you know another moment to make something great. You.

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Know that you're gonna go in there and make all of that come into one piece.

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I'm a product at Berkeley County that sound, has been a part of my life since I was 11 years old.

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Foreign 's band is like a family. This is like my second home I, spend mostly my time around these people. They.

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Are definitely my family they're? Definitely some amazing people and amazing musicians in this band. That's.

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What makes us different is that we're so close to each other, and we push each other to be better. All.

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Very talented, all very supportive um and some of the hardest workers I have ever met like these. Are the people I spend 99 of my time with.

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The band kids, they know what hard work is the band kids know what it's like to work together. They know what it's like to be compassionate and passionate.

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I love the environment that they've created my.

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Teachers are just like everybody else around here: they're, like friends and family.

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I, like how honest they are no matter what happens, they just want us to do better and I like that weather they actually care. They.

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Both are so hard working and they have like they're very, very dedicated, and they put all they have into us, and the program.

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They're teachers that you can always come to teachers that you can always you know, rely on and feel supported by for.

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Our kids to speak that way, it means that we're doing something right here. That means that they're passing that down to the kids that are younger than them, and that means that the kids that were older than them when they were younger, pass it down to them.

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Very proud to be in this band and um and see how far it's come, especially from covid covid,.

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Year was definitely not normal. We.

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Had band outside and uh and we had, we had like tents set up in the parking lot and uh and no matter like how tough it was. We still came out and played every day, even though kova kind of tore everything apart, we were able to kind of Define the new Stratford band, our.

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Covid year and the year after covet, I would attribute all of our success really to the great teaching at our Middle School level. In.

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Sixth grade I didn't think I could really produce anything. Good I sounded like a Foghorn and then now I can actually say that I play the trumpet.

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I, just love to see our band aspire to be even greater than we already have been. We.

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Definitely grown a lot as a band program.

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I never thought I'd be performing on a national level.

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I just kind of joined because I thought it would be it'd, be cool, it'd, be fun to be in the marching band and now you know, we've been to Indianapolis and we're going to DC and now we're going to Boulder.

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Our trumpet Ensemble getting recognized at the national level competing in the National trumpet competition in Boulder Colorado, our most prized possession, of course, is our ability to be consistent and to keep growing through that consistency. Thank you be the best version of yourself and focus on the. How we do things Stratford is magical, anything can happen as traffic and it's something that I think more people that pass through the doors here, maybe believe, and we definitely try to make sure our students understand that what we do is definitely Magic.

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Are we ready to get started now? We should be in our final stages of finishing our rocket project.

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Today we were working on our sixth grade stem activity, basically they're building a model rocket from homemade materials. So once we get the fins on, we should be able to attach everything else. I'm.

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Working on this trying to.

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Get the parachute connected to the.

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Go together with the Shroud cord, which I've got right here, and they um they attach to the parachute and the nose cone.

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You're gonna trace it and then cut it out. You understand.

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Blooming the shock cord and one is going to make.

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The parachute it's just kind of fun does.

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That make sense, honestly it was going back to you know my education in sixth grade I. Remember like it was yesterday kind of building our own model rocket and once I got into teaching and just trying to find out. You know how can I make this exciting of a stem activity? It was too small. What is the rocket gonna do all those trash, those trash items that we throw away. We kind of utilized into making our homemade homemade Rockets.

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Yeah I brought this yarn in from my house, I.

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Bought cardboard and paper clips I.

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Didn't want them to go out and buy materials. You know this is things you can make from.

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Just to find their creative side and say well what can work as a parachute? You know. Lastly, back everybody has those at home.

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We complete it and then we do the inspection test to see if it can um Fly for.

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Them to to start that process from from the raw materials that they had and starting and seeing the excitement of we're making Rob rockers today.

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Of we're almost at the home stretch and them getting ready for them to launch it. You know just it's it's great.

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It worked out quick.

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Ly just a sense of achievement. You know just for them to realize. Like you know, broaden these materials and coach said that we were going to make a homemade. Rocky I saw a lot of skeptical eyes like.

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For them to see all the hard work in the team, the team bonding that they had to do- and you know this wasn't an individual assignment. They had to work in groups so for them to collaborate and come together to make a final product was very exciting and all of them got off the launch pad. Not all of them made that final descent with the parachute output. It's a great learning, experience and I think the kids really enjoyed it today.

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This is the overpass that is going to take care of or eliminate all of the the traffic in the morning. As far as school traffic.

AK

Running conduit for the lights for the walkway for.

BC

Early morning, safety and Late Night Safety, kids.

AK

Or parents, or just anyone walking across the river.

BC

Me and Jake: we take care of all of the stadium lighting, all of the ball field lighting and every single pole in the county. As far as security polls him and I, we we take care of every last one just to put it in perspective. Cane Bay, High School has 90 polls by itself and that's just security poles, not the forest Stadium polls. That's on the football field.

AK

Maintenance is our title, but you never know what you're going to get into day to day our.

BC

Maintenance department is not just maintenance, we are actually pretty much a full-blown construction Department, sometimes.

AK

It's move things, add things low-level.

BC

Lighting to Stadium lighting to running.

AK

Lights to walkways running power to new poles, you name it, we do it yeah. We do different things every day.

V

Where are you heading to Next.

AK

Berkeley Middle School. What are you doing? There say we are a Retro Fitness school with a LED upgrade so we're going to every fixture in the school and uh straight wired and taking out the old bulbs straight wiring it and then making the LED yeah we're here bright and early in the mornings, and sometimes we don't leave until late at night.

BC

I went to Macedonia high school I went to Berkeley High School I, guess I just like to be able to give back to the community. You know, since the district's giving me so much you.

AK

Know I never thought that I was going to be an electrician when I was in high school, but I kind of fell into the job and I mean I've loved it ever since love my opportunity to work in here I mean it's a great place. The.

BC

Guys that I work directly with we all get along great you're able to able to grow here we have just as much fun as we do get things done. You.

AK

Know it makes the day better. You know, because I don't come into work. You know wishing I wasn't here and.

BC

I mean I, actually, love working with them. Tell you the truth. I love working with them really a great place to work. If you ask me.

BD

Like I said earlier, with focusing on human rights today we're in law class talking about the importance of Human Rights why'd, you say: freedom of speech, Isaiah parent social studies, teacher at Stratford, High School, so create a list of 10 rights that you must follow for your Colony I, couldn't ask for a better situation than to be in Berkeley. County I went to Timberland High School, my mom taught here for 20 some odd years.

BD

I always said: I want to be in the medical field and the more and more I'll you know hung out with my mom and kind of changed my mind and so by the time I got to high school. It's kind of kind of started to switch on me like. Maybe this is something I would like to do.

BD

I love the quietness of the spring when I'm on the golf course with these guys and you know watching them, develop and become better players. There. You go I love, you know, coaching those guys up and trying to develop them to be the best they can be there. You go Brody it's getting in there. We go good job. I actually lost my dad and my freshman year in high school, and my coaches were like they just circled around me and McCain. Those father figures for me and I was like you know.

BD

This is I, want to be this to somebody else same stroke, every time making a difference in kids lives. So they did that for me, so I just wanted to repay the favorite. Remember all Rhythm, all Rhythm Berkeley County just has a special place in my heart. Being from Berkeley. County is a sense of pride of saying that I graduated from Berkeley County school I graduated from Timberland high school as a sense of Pride and saying those things. How can we make this work for Our Generation?

BD

How can we make Equity a part of what we want for our future kids and their kids? The satisfaction I get every time. I come home at night. Knowing that I'm making a difference in somebody's life I mean that that's what does it for me? You guys have a large task at hand right, there's no place I'd rather be than in Bergen. County use this to change the world. All right, that's the goal. You guys will change the world right.

BE

I love their playfulness. It's.

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BE

Do you know because.

J

I can feel it.

BE

I love their hearts.

BE

My group is so loving and it makes some of the hard days fun one hundred dollars, good job catch it good job. The love in this building is just contagious. 70 plus seven equals.

BE

Sitting at your table s and then Savannah, can you turn on your board? Good girl, the light bulb, will spark and just seeing their reactions is just amazing. My class is considered a cross-categorical So within that is a range of disabilities, so some of my students actually uh predominantly I, have students with autism, but I can also have students with other health impairments, some mild intellectual abilities, medical disabilities. Things like that. Can you try that again using your big boy? Words, the chips? Oh, that's. What I thought?

BE

Okay, their Spirits are so high and so Lively and I feel like I can make a difference in their life. Yes or no. No! No! We don't get ready. Let's go five, ten with March of 2020.. What was that like for you chaos?

BE

It was a lot of chaos. It was a lot of relearning. It was a lot of late nights struggling to find a balance. um Oh gosh, it was hard.

BE

No, it's okay, I didn't think I would get emotional um because you have your school family, the kids that become your kids, but you also have your own family, so it was hard. It was hard finding that balance. If you want to use your words, hey it's your hand and, oh my God. The drive was for online learning. You know digital learning, but with students with special needs.

BE

That is not necessarily the best method of teaching, especially when it came to teaching social skills. How do you teach social skills virtually when you can't do hand over hand when you can't be next to them when you can't have them with that quick redirection, so that was that was a struggle. The social skills and the behavior.

BE

Some behavioral challenges is what I find myself addressing the most Michael Com 72 70, a lot of reteaching behaviors, a lot of re-teaching skills: how to love themselves, how to make friends how to talk to people appropriately I couldn't teach their numbers and letters and and grammar if they couldn't build on those skills. So when I call your name come up to me and come get your math journal is that in it's a beyond beyond the clock job, it's even if you're, not doing paperwork.

BE

Our minds are just constantly thinking about our kids, our school kids, it's a very selfless profession, so you truly have to be passionate on what you do. We are in it for their children. We are here to try and make them become Kinder, smarter, more independent.

BE

I love your swing song Oh, my students, I love them so much gosh they're such a loving group and they're. So playful I, just I love him I love them they're, they're they're! You know my other kids. So when I come back, I want you to have five beads on your stripe. How many beads do you need five.

AM

Good I'll be back bye, bye.

AM

Thank you, foreign.

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D

I'm excited our team is excited about upcoming conversations.

D

You look around here, it's comfortable. We have so many small businesses that add to our community. It's like it adds to our flavor.

D

What Berkeley County is and it's a place where everybody's coming for the same thing and that's what school is about, we're all coming there for the the same thing and that's a a quality education, and so this is a very good place to start to have a conversation, brown, sugar, brown, sugar, yes, coffee and conversations, it's just an opportunity for me to have like genuine conversations with community members in our neighborhoods close to our schools. It tears down this wall. That seems, like you, can't get to the superintendent I think these are good.

D

Opportunities to you know get to know me as a person, and then we can have just conversations about what's going well within our schools. What would community members like to see more of with a very good education? We can close, you know gaps, we can build Bridges, we can break down barriers. I think we together can make that positive difference. Thank.

E

You thank you appreciate it all right.

F

I really like to see what the kids come up with.

G

They can't wait to get here to do this. This is one of their favorite parts of the day. They.

F

Just take a lot of pride in what they're doing and that stands out and let's talk about the goals for today, our team is: has worked really hard on trying to use technology in innovative ways what it means to be an entrepreneur and we're all entrepreneurs right now, because we're starting our own business aren't we they.

G

Learn to be entrepreneurs, they learn some technology skills to combine with that to create products.

F

That's the focus for this unit is really about being an entrepreneur about taking an idea creating a business around that idea.

G

I love it when they're smiling and when they're so excited to tell you about what they're doing I'm.

H

Working on this tic-tac-toe.

F

Thing after they've researched and having their head what they want to create. They took some time you know drawing it by hand, they created their Google, drawing that mirrored their original drawing and then from there they uploaded it to the software, and so once they were able to do that, they could actually see the laser cutter in action.

I

We printed these Hearts made out of like acrylic acrylic plastic.

F

If they like the model- and they felt good rather than the next step- was really to begin advertising.

I

The thing I most like doing is like doing the commercial. Are you bored doing homework I can fix that when I get home I just start working on this. If.

F

You're going to do it on your own time, you definitely have to enjoy it.

I

It has been really fun. It's a lot of hard work. I look forward to it a lot because I'm really excited about it.

G

They're so excited to share their success and they have some awesome projects that they've created for this Valentine's.

F

Store we give out tickets to each student at King Hawaii, so they're able to come into the Valentine's Day shop, go around to each vendor each student and and learn about what they have to sell and then choose one item and that very special item. They get to take home with them.

G

You know they're feeling that sense of accomplishment and success, and so that's what excites me the most about it when they're excited about what they did and telling you how they did it I'm.

I

Gonna be super excited because, like I work super hard on this, so I hope they enjoy it. They've.

G

Gained so much self-confidence, so they understand they do possess the qualities that they need to be successful and have those accomplishments, and it is wonderful to.

F

See I love to come to work every day and Cain Hawaii is a very special place and you can't describe the feeling that you have when, when you're watching a kid excited about school, you want them to want to be here. You want them to see that hey what I'm learning here is going to make a difference. For me, one day.

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K

500 is going to be your Youth Court law, ad I love being the first face, people see Beta Club, that's another really good club I recommend you join so when I'm doing tours and things I make sure that I'm the first fresh face that they see just all science classes. So what I'm giving them tours and things like that they get excited about the school, so mainly English stuff like that down this hallway. This is going to be your earth.

K

Science, classroom and I, really like the idea of making sure that their first day goes smoothly.

K

My name is Addie. I am in 10th grade at Goose, Creek, High, School, I,.

L

Think we would send out a Google.

K

Form I am a gator Ambassador, and that is someone who just kind of helps around the school they do tours for new students, so we can put Ethan on the posters. A gator Ambassador helps with everything not in this class. But for that event you will I'm also part of National Honor, Society, Beta Club right.

N

Mercy yeah Round of Applause in.

K

Beta every one has the same interests. They usually are leaders and they want what's good for themselves and for the future and so I love feeling, like I'm, a part of a community with.

L

K

I love knowing that I'm putting my time into things that matter, one of the main people who helped give me a lot of leadership roles was Cooper.

O

Most importantly, there's action items I, think that if you can teach a kid to be a leader that you are preparing them for.

K

Life in my freshman year, I think she saw something quote unquote special in me.

O

She is not shy, she is so well put together. She is such a big heart and she takes on these leadership roles and she's also very connected to our student body in a way that makes their voice heard.

K

I just I overall love what I do I love helping out around the school I love when making like in creating relationships with people just.

O

To sit back and watch her lead, others is just it's truly humbling. I.

P

O

Wants to make her parents proud, she wants to make her teachers proud, but, more importantly, she wants to make herself proud of of what she does and.

K

Who she is, she saw something that I didn't even see in myself when I first got here and.

O

She said she saw something I didn't see in myself. That made me a little sad because I'm, how can you not see it she's just.

K

She was kind of one of those people who kind of pushed the leadership out of me, even though I knew it was already there. She just gave me the roles and made me feel welcome to be a.

O

Leader in our school, so I think that's every Educator's ultimate goal is for for them to see themselves how we see them. I.

K

Love the fact that I have more of a purpose um and I want to come to school. I want to be involved in things, I, just love being around leadership around people who are leaders, it's just very rewarding, knowing how far I've come talk.

O

About changing culture, that's how you do it, you have somebody that's a freshman or sophomore, and then they see them and they are empowered to lead, and then they get others to lead and that's what I'm most excited for for her I.

K

Like making people feel as though they're a part of a community and like they have friends, people.

O

Remember her for a long time, long after she's graduated.

Q

These kids come up day after day.

R

There's no Second Chances. All we got is one shot. One opportunity you.

S

Feel like a part of something that's like bigger than like yourself, whether.

Q

We we're practicing in the morning we're practicing the evening. They continue to show up.

T

Those few seconds are crucial, bigger than like what you can just do. In a normal day, you lose those to.

R

Two seconds that can cost you the entire meet.

Q

We don't win Meats the day of the meet we win meets at practice, good.

U

Time, good time, guys, good time, good.

R

Time it doesn't look like it when we're running with it, but those are 75 pounds sometimes.

S

I'm, just like I really I, don't want to do this anymore, like I, feel like just throwing in the towel, dropping the shoes- and it's like done, but.

V

You got to keep pushing.

S

You need to stop being selfish, and you know look at this like this is like a great opportunity. You know like I I wouldn't want to miss out on it.

Q

We are the Elite Physical Fitness team of Junior ROTC. All teams are made up of nine individuals and then the mix team has to have a minimum of four females on the team. You could have as many as nine females, but the team must have four females on the team to be considered a mixed team for the Raiders I. Don't think that people truly understand the athletes, the high performance athletes that we truly have on this team and what it takes to excel at such a high level.

W

On this team, even on a bad day, we're going to beat most teams out here, that's a beautiful thing, good, excellent work, excellent work.

Q

Every event is unique that it not only challenges their physical fitness, our rope bridge, for example. There.

R

Can only be two people crossing at the same time, it doesn't necessarily require the greatest amount of physical fitness. You go from that low hanging rope to just straight up tight, but.

Q

When it comes to teamwork and alertness, and attention to detail is probably the most demanding.

X

First place Timberland.

S

Once they caught that up, we all just like look at each other and, like my mom, even has it on video or like we just saw like you know we go forward and then like as soon as you know, they give like Round of Applause. We turn on like we're, also like smiling at each other hugging each other. You got a few people like crying.

R

They cried at the state, meet and I'm pretty sure we have some pictures floating around there for that um I have I hugged my mom and I was just overwhelmed with emotions and I started crying because I didn't know what to do. At that point, I mean you just won State. What are you going next? You know.

M

Again, please give them a round of applause.

Q

This year, not only were was our co-ed or mixed team Raider state champions, but our male team was uh runner-ups for the state championships. So on both sides of the house. We uh we excelled.

Y

On behalf of all the parents, we are so proud of y'all.

S

It's never happened before, so we felt like I, don't know on top of the world. These.

Q

Kids have achieved something that most will never achieve in their life, even as adults, but this is something they can always look back upon and say if I was able to do that, what else can I do if I can achieve that? I can achieve anything in life as long as I'm willing to work for it does.

U

Everybody know their place on the log 100 percent.

Q

Every day is an opportunity for me to to plant a seed and, to you know, provide some type of long-lasting. Hopefully, lifelong impact on these young men and women ROTC is is about creating a family, creating a culture, it's more of a family than it is a.

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R

He is probably the biggest influence on my life. um There have been days where I did not want to continue, and he pushed me through that somebody.

S

Always has your back whether you're at home at school, you know hanging out with your friends he's.

R

Always there no matter what, even, if you mess up he's like a father, what.

Z

Do those words mean to you when you think of when they say that about you.

Q

um When they say that about me, it's affirmation of the things that I'm doing.

Q

I said it's just an affirmation that uh what I'm doing each day is really making an impact, and that's that's important to me.

S

He cares about like the you 10 years from now. Like I, don't know he always just pushes us to be like the best person that we could be.

Q

I want you to look back at this 10 years from now and going and Sarah had she he really cared about me. He really was teaching me something he was really instilling values in me. That necessarily didn't appreciate then, but I sure do now and without that I wouldn't be the man or woman that I am today.

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AA

I think one of the best things about working here at Philip Simmons is my co-workers. I love the unity among the staff and the camaraderie I feel like we all get along really well, I. Think that's what makes working here and teaching here so fun. Happy twins day is something that we have been doing for about four years now. Every Wednesday.

AB

Miss Bowen and I just like to match it's just something: fun.

AA

To break up the week, one of our sayings used to be that we could remind people what day of the week it was. We.

AB

Plan our outfits the night before and it's fun the kids kind of get in on it too. And it's something to look forward to.

AC

AB

As an accident, we would show up to work a couple times where pretty similar outfits, our.

AD

Classic outfit is like black pants.

AE

Like white tea and a jean jacket.

AA

It just kind of okay, we'll do it again and then again and it then just became a thing every Wednesday, and once we did it once we were like now, we need to keep this up haven't skipped a day. We have a couple pictures of when she's, not here or during covid and I, had to quarantine. She.

AB

Had to teach from home so we had I had her on my smart board and then I was standing, and someone took our picture of me in the smart board, so never miss a Twin's day, she's a real-life twin. She has a real life twin, a real life Twins winning yeah, but most of the time.

AI

Made a motion: second, we.

BF

Have a motion in a second: is there any discussion, I'll State for the record that no action was taken in an executive session? All all in favor of the motion, please respond by saying aye.

BG

BF

Opposed we are now in regular session. Please join me for the Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of silence.

BF

BF

BF

Goose Creek Elementary chorus under the wreck, the direction of Sandra Williford as they perform Kumbaya.

BD

BD

That's what we're here for.

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Oh Lord, oh my God.

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Come by foreign.

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Somebody's Crying Lord foreign.

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BF

Thank you, Miss Williford, principal Kelly Gebhart, and this awesome group of students for sharing their amazing talent. Thank you.

BG

BF

I would like to recognize he Bonner JK, Gordon and nexton elementary school or submitting the beautiful student artwork. That's been displayed in the entryway for everyone's enjoyment. Thank you to Bonner, Elementary's, visual art, teacher Molly, Dees and principal Melissa, Willis JK, gordine, Elementary's, art teacher Celeste, Singleton and principal principal Dr, Theodore prelo and nexton elementary schools, art teacher Gary, Gilchrist and principal Tina. Hoots.

BF

BF

The next item on the agenda is Citizens comments in order to conduct the meeting in an orderly and efficient manner. We ask that you honor the following guidelines. Stakeholder comments are welcome and encouraged. However, the board will not take immediate action on public comments at this meeting. Any person wishing to address the board must register prior to the meeting.

BF

Comments must be regarding programs, policies or procedures, comments regarding complaints against District or against employees other than District level Executives or references to students other than the child of the speaker will not be heard in public session groups. Addressing the same topic should select. One speaker comments will be limited to three minutes per speaker. The board chair reserves the right to a lot additional time or halt public comments that do not adhere to the guidelines. Our first Speaker this evening is Terry Hardesty.

BH

I'm going to read a statement on behalf of Mr Hardesty, okay, Terry artisty regrets he could not stay as he had another meeting. He must attend. So he asked me to read his letter.

BH

As many of you know, I've been before this board many times discussing and reading excerpts from a Freedom of Information Act regarding Mr Barrow I have called for his resignation numerous times based on the past findings by EEOC, and that is administrator in Berkeley County School District. He created a hostile working place for one of his subordinates by continually commenting about her in an unwelcome manner. Additionally, he has demonstrated that he does not wish to abide by the will of the people and their choices in the electoral process of this state and County.

BH

While he has every right to disagree with the decisions of this duly elected board, he has no right to continuously relitigate them over and over. His unacceptable comments to situents constituents and other board members have essentially ruined his ability to represent the voters on this board of public education.

BH

For these reasons, I again call for Mr David Barrow to resign for the good of the students and employees of the Berkeley County School District, sincerely Terry Hardesty.

BF

The next speaker is Victoria Cowart.

BI

Good evening, chair, McQuillen board members and Dr Dixon I'm Victoria Cowart I'm, the chair of the Berkeley County Republican party, I'm, here this evening, to speak quickly to two issues that I draw a parallel between inappropriate, behaviors and inappropriate emergency materials of every reason. To believe this board will resolve at least one of these issues.

BI

That said, I believe they should be supported in their efforts by ensuring their constituents are aware of the depth of the problems and the difficulty of the journey that laid before them to begin I'll illuminate the issues with inappropriate reading materials. What I'm about to read may shock many in the room, and it must be incredibly difficult for our students to have to read, especially when we realize how many of them have suffered adverse childhood events or Aces. This is an excerpt detailing a rape.

BI

Please be warned, and please remember, as you hear me reading it, this is required reading from Berkeley County students. She flings me on to the bed next to the old man, and then he is on top of me holding me down with the strength of 10 men. He kisses me with lips that are slack and wet and taste of onions. His teeth dig into my lower lip underneath the weight of him. I cannot see or move or breathe.

BI

I'll stop there now juxtapose that excerpt with this one. You called on her several occasions and asked her to come, see you you look her up and down and make her feel uncomfortable. You touch her shoulders and rub them. You move your hands down her arms and she has slapped them away. You comment on the way she looks. She stated that you have made sexual advances towards her. Specifically.

BI

She stated that you stick your tongue out of your mouth in a sexual way and make kissing motions with your lips, and you took your shirt off in your office, called her into your office and tried to block her exit standing in the doorway. You then asked her to change her shirt in your office. While you were present, she slapped your hands and left inappropriate curriculum, inappropriate conduct from board member David Barrow. That excerpt was about him from the sexual harassment documents, acclaimed Berkeley, County, School District.

BI

We as constituents paid thousands of dollars for a claim that resulted in an EEOC finding of a hostile workplace. Add to that recent behaviors of frustrating the board's purpose. Speaking out of turn vulgarly cursing constituents from the Deus, including the board, chair and I, see a Continuum of behavior and I hope others do as well. In short, no one who sexually harasses even a single woman deserves to sit in a seat of Judgment of her body, a school district, no less. That is likely 80 percent women.

BI

You should not be deciding the futures of our children or our teachers or our administrators or representing the fine people of Berkeley County I call on you once again on the members of the board to call on you and the public to call on you to resign Your, Role, David Barrow.

BI

BF

You, the next speaker this evening, is Christy Dixon.

BJ

Good evening board members chairman, McQuillen and superintendent Dixon I've, come before the board many times, speaking about inappropriate materials and the welfare of our children. Here in the district I've heard from parents who have brought things to my attention and I have brought them to yours. To the previous board, I would I brought many times issues, discipline, reading materials and assignments.

BJ

The previous board would not take action. They in fact even would smirk and be disrespectful when I would speak and I believe, as the head goes. So does the tale our previous chairman, who now sits on the board, who has also demonstrated inappropriate, conduct um an elite in a leadership position. You should be respectful to everyone and we have seen many times only disrespect not only to the fellow board members to audience.

BJ

Members and I still for the life of me can't understand why one board member did not have to run for their seat again when everybody else did.

BJ

It just speaks to self-promotion and self-preservation instead of the good of the county, the residents and the children, and, if that board, member, which is Mr, Barrow cannot conduct himself in a professional manner and we've also heard of some other personal failings that have been um accusations have been made and actually a finding by the EEOC in the other person's favor. The person who made the claim so I suggest that if Mr Barrow cannot conduct himself in a professional manner and be respectful of the board members that he stepped down, thank you.

BF

The next speaker this evening is Kat Lowe.

BK

Good evening I'm Kat Lowe I'm, the president of the Berkeley County Education Association I'm, here to talk to you about the teacher.

BL

Shortage this evening, as far as we know about 60 teachers are missing in our high schools. Our largest need is in math. If we broke it out by schools, you'd have Phillip Simmons needing 18 faculty and staff in their school.

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BL

Berkeley High was 17 Timberland with 15 Stratford and Kane Bay with 14.. This is an enormous amount of effort that needs to be made to just make the day work and we want to be the best that we can be, and so I've been hearing a lot of negative commentary about the distrust of teachers and public schools and I just want to take a second as a history, I mean as a high school teacher and tell you a personal story.

BL

um When I was a grad student, the University of South Carolina, my advisor Dr John safko in the physics and astronomy Department gave me a graduate. Students have to do I had to clean out his file cabinet and in that file cabinet there was a bunch of floppy disks, the size of records and a speech that he gave to the Rotary called Sputnik. It's real.

BL

What do we do now, and it was an amazing speech that he gave basically talking about all of the things that we're hearing right now all the distrust and that it was time to bet big on us to bet big on public school.

BL

To bet big on teachers- and he wasn't the only Professor that thought that way- that's how we got NSF, that's how we got all the school scholarships from the National Defense of Education. That's how we have this Cascade of innovation that got us all these things from phones to computers and I, I, listen and I. Try as hard as I can to be pragmatic, but I have to ask everyone here.

BL

If you know the teachers, I know and I know a lot of teachers and the staff and counselors and all of these people, when are you gonna bet big on us, because it sounds like you, hedge on bets, that you don't believe in US.

BL

Well, I've seen what happens when we do that Dr sapco used to have me, go out to the schools into the to the equipment rooms and look in there to see all of the science equipment that it had bought us I was there in the 90s, the late 90s and 2000s. There was still equipment there. That stuff is gone time for you to set aside your politics to set aside the fear-mongering and bet big on your people, that big on the teachers that big on the librarians but big on our schools.

BL

BF

Next speaker is Alice Williams Mr.

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Chairman of public privilege, Personal Privilege,.

BF

Let's keep getting through this, we got there's a bunch more okay, Alice Williams foreign.

BM

Good evening, um I want to address issues related to bullying and assault within the school system. It seems to be happening a lot, especially with um disabled kids, people who aren't like everybody else, or has issues um with being able to talk with other students or other people. My daughter ended up being assaulted. She has a 504 plan and um she was physically assaulted after being picked on during an entire class period, to which no teacher or nobody was watching her.

BM

She ended up with a concussion. She was allowed to do homebound from October through December, and then we went to renew it because she is still under doctor's care. The board declined to allow her homebound I mean this is happening numerous times with kids being picked on and bullied and they're supposed to be. A no tolerance policy.

BM

Now they're wanting to force my daughter out of the school and unenroll her because she's not been in attendance now because they declined it and waited so long to do so, and now she can't get enrolled anywhere else and would be considered. Truant and I asked that this issue be addressed.

BF

The next speaker is Matthew horde.

BN

Good evening is here in the public um I'm here today to kind of touch up on what the lady Pyrenees.

BG

Said would you please speak into the mic, please thank you. The.

BN

Bully in the school it is, you know we're sitting there with a no tolerance policy. Bullying is not allowed. I would like to know. How is it that we were supposed to put our trust into the board members, the teachers and the staff and the principals? But yet when it comes to the case of my child, that is who is bullying him to the point where I read the procedures of policy manuals, I asked the vice principal. She can't explain, none of it, but yet I read it perfectly clear.

BN

A teacher is not supposed to be getting a kid's face in jail and tell them to shut up they're, not supposed to make him stand up for hours at a time. They're not supposed to make him take his headphones because we're waiting to get his ADHD test. He has severe problems, I'm the full-time single father she made him, take his headphones, throw them in the trash can, at the end of the day, walk out and pick them back up now we're during the pandemic. There is no telling what has got thrown in that trash can.

BN

Does that not break the way that she's supposed to handle her classroom? It comes down to sros. They are not uh obviously they're, not you supposed to be utilized as colorful correct, they're, not supposed to actually be called on until you until you get to threat level three, as you call it criminal conduct. Why would she tell my kid on a Thursday if you don't straighten up today, I'm gonna call the cops on you and then Friday the next day.

BN

He shows up pulls him out of class without my knowledge, without my consent takes him to a room by himself and God knows what was said to him and then on the way back tells my kid don't make me come back. Is that not considered a scare tactic and then the biggest thing is this? When it comes to this teacher, I have asked principal vice principal: nobody has wanted to help. No, my kids already ruined. We go to the Santee Cooper Christmas life, thousands of different lights.

BN

The first thing he picks out is a cop car about a hundred yards away with a slice flashing, because now he is scared of the cops was never that before, and the biggest thing that gets me is this is the lack is I had to call and call I finally got in touch with the Mr Willie Bear. He helped me tremendously once again, I read the policy procedure that I told him. She couldn't answer that she didn't know when to implement an SRO, because this is the first time they had it.

BN

Well, yes, it might be the first time that school has it, but you'll have an entire District policy set up. So how are we supposed to put our trust in the teachers and Educators and the board when they are blatantly disrespecting policy? To the point where my kid went every day, just like the lady before me said, I was having to force my kid to go to school, in my opinion, be tortured because every day, if she just looked wrong, she would make him stand up. She would make him you know, subjugate him humiliate him.

BN

Have all the kids you know Robbie, do you worry do this? Do that? That is not what she's supposed to be doing.

BF

Thank you, Mr hoard. Your time has expired. Thank you. The next speaker is Charlotte Cunningham.

BF

And I believe Miss Fisk is speaking with you part two of two. It says part one of two and two of two: there you go.

BO

I am reading the first half of a statement shared with me by a high school Ela teacher.

BO

This is regarding banned books. What do we fear really? This is the question. I have been asking myself over the last few months as the social climate of polarization misunderstanding and, quite frankly, witch hunting in America has filtered its way into the public education Arena and has been pointed directly at teachers.

BO

What do we fear students who think for themselves, students who are exposed to hard historical truths, students who get to think deeply about real world issues that they may want to help support, defend or fight when they're adults, everything that we specifically English teachers teach seems to be under a microscope?

BO

If what we are teaching is not what parents want for their children, then what is appropriate I welcome a list. Are we forgetting that teachers are human beings and parents too, or are we just robots who indoctrinate if you, the parent, have a concern about a text? What's the most logical, Next Step contacting the school board or having a human-to-human conversation with your child's teacher as parents? We know our students, parents want what is best for their children, because that this is also what we want.

BO

I welcome a conversation with parents for what is best, and what do we fear really. Here are a few literary topics. Some people find horrifying and inappropriate: murder, incest, rape, suicide, racism, interracial relationships, child abuse, substance, abuse slavery and War.

BP

Hi I'm Cindy Fisk good evening. This is part two do you know where we find all of these topics the Bible and works of Shakespeare? Are we going to ban and contest even these pillars of the literary world?

BP

If we do, what will we have left I have found as a public school educator for who is also a person of deep faith that the people who have the loudest concerns about what is happening in a child's classroom. Are those who claim to be concerned because of their faith? Aren't we on the same side? Don't we want our children to be aware of the atrocities that happen in our world so that they can be a part of the change?

BP

Don't we want our children to be exposed to all kinds of lives and beliefs so that they know how to coexist with who they agree with and who they don't?

BP

Ellie weasel one of the most well-known survivors of the Holocaust, whose book night also contains many horrifying images and has been taught in public schools for years said we must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor. Never the victim silence encourages the Tormentor. Never the tormented hard stories have to be told as a high school English teacher I choose to take the side of teaching literature that matters and that will stir students to wanting to be that change.

BP

The point is this: public Educators never have the AIM to be sensationalists. We want to teach the standards with meaningful and relevant content. Our students deserve this also real, quick. The book that I think that is in question. In any book that I know of in 30 years there are processes to get permission forms to go the students. If the parent does not want that book for their child to read that book as a mandated read, they can get an alternative assignment.

BF

Thank you, Miss Fisk. The next speaker is Mev McIntosh.

BQ

Good evening board, chair and members of the board, I am reading a statement for you tonight from one of our special education teachers in Berkeley County good evening I'm, a speech and language pathologist with a caseload of 55 students, the district average approximately is 57 students. My caseload consists of students with a wide variety of challenges, from autism to emotional aggressions to genetic disorders, to low IQ, to non-verbal, just to name a few. The high rate of turnover and retention of speech and language Pathologists in our county has forced us to contract our services.

BQ

Approximately 50 to 60 percent of our slps are contractors. A bcsd colleague decided to leave our school district and returned back as a contracted SLP. There are many reasons why this is problematic. One problem is that the cost of this system is quite High, because the contracted slps make far more money.

BQ

Another problem is that contracted slps have no South Carolina Department of Ed responsibilities, no committees, no school duties, and so on. It sounds like a great working condition and a great alternative for those who are still employed by bcsd and additionally, slps must write an average of 4 000 service notes annually. In addition to the IEPs, they must write. A service note is a summary of what was accomplished in each session.

BQ

There are neighboring districts that use software systems that reduce the amount of paperwork and require service notes only when it's necessary in order to recruit and retain speech and learning pathologists and any employee in this District, we need to focus on better working conditions.

BQ

First step for our slps would be no more than 40. Students on a caseload require service notes. Only when necessary. We need to keep an eye on the entire special education department to make sure that working conditions are better, so we can recruit and retain the best in a growing School District. Thank you. Thank.

BF

You and that the next speaker is lens Piper Loomis.

BR

Hey I'm just so thankful to be here again. This message is not directed towards you in a vicious way, but I'm going to be very blunt with you. I'm thankful for um the turnover and and y'all being here.

BR

um Sex-Oriented grooming behaviors are defined as teasing a child about the development of their sexual body parts discussing sexually explicit information with a child telling sexually explicit jokes to a child showing a child sexually explicit content. This is illegal. According to the South Carolina law.

BR

There's many books, I could give you and give you a list. Dear Martin Looking for Alaska. All boys aren't blue, dear Martin genderqueer. This book is gay, but um I really uh just want to share with you my own story. It's taken a long time for me to I've shared a little bit on that campaign Trail when I ran, but I was raped, I was trafficked across state lines and I was raped for three and a half years restrained and unretained, restrained and unrestrained.

BR

During that time, I lost two children due to the trauma miscarriage I was a victim of Satanic. Ritual abuse and I was told that if I ever told anyone what was happening, my church leaders knew people knew they would deny it. I would be killed in my body. Parts would not be found. I escaped to Freedom at 16 and a half. This is the slavery that we actually have in America. 800 million go missing globally a year. 800 000 in the United States behaviors that are happening in our education is grooming.

BR

It's pedophilia the teachers, the staff that participate in this they are pedophiles in the state of South Carolina I can assure you we will go after pedophilia with chemical castration. They want to do that to our kids and sterilize them as Cloud Schwab States, and we will go after the death penalty for those that are sex offenders and traffickers. Thank you.

BF

Next item on the agenda is any action, as required from executive session. Miss Littleton.

BG

Mr chairman I, moved to accept the personal recommendation of the Administration has discussed in executive session for the current school year.

A

BF

Have a motion in a second: is there any discussion? Hearing, none I'll call the question all in favor, please respond by saying aye aye any.

AU

BF

The eyes have it the next motion: I move in the public interest of transparency and the Public's need to know information and to protect the public from secret government activity. I move that the board waived, the attorney, client privilege and attorney work product privileges with respect to the public records sought.

BF

Pursuant to the records request of the Post and Courier dated February 16 2023 under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act, provided, however, that this waiver shall not shall apply only to the subjects of the posting Courier's request of February 16 2023 and that it shall not be deemed a waiver of the Privileges with respect to any other matter. Without further action and approval of the board. Do we have a second?

BF

Second, we have a motion. A second. Is there any discussion? Hearing, none I'll call the question all in favor, please respond by saying aye aye any opposed. No, let me do that show. Was it two or three?

BF

Three six to three motion carries. The next agenda. Item is temporary committee assignments. We have a full board tonight, so that will not be necessary, so we will now recess for committee meetings. The first committee meeting Ms Littleton is the committee on academics and innovation.

BG

I'm calling the committee on academics and Innovation to order I declare there's a quorum of committee members present and know that the media has been given proper notice pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act.

BG

Do you have a motion to approve the agenda so.

BF

BG

A second we have a motion in a second any discussion, all in favor say aye aye, opposing a promotions approved three to zero. The only item on the agenda is the 2023-2024 instructional calendar, Dr, Denise, ling, you're recognized.

BS

BS

Good evening committee, chair Littleton members of the committee on a the instructional calendar committee, was composed of school principals teachers and District staff, who met three times to develop draft calendars. With the assistance of the office of communication, the drafts and a short survey were implemented to gather feedback from bcsd teachers and from other staff and parents I'd like to recognize Jen Crowley, acting executive director of academics and Innovation to share the drafts and the feedback received through the survey process and we're going to put the presentation.

BT

BT

Good evening, and if you don't mind in your folder, you have both drafts of the calendar and, if you wouldn't mind pulling those out as we kind of go through here, you'll see the committee that was comprised of this year. We have the meetings down below of when we met.

BT

In preparation for the committee's work, we reviewed the state regulations in regards to instructional calendar the following, or guidelines set forth by the state department 190 days annually, 180 days of instruction covering at least nine calendar months. The opening day for students must not be before the third Monday in August at least three inclement weather makeup days, 10 professional development days. Three days must be used for collegial professional development. Two days maximum for the preparation of opening School five days for teacher planning, academic plans or parent conferences.

BT

The secondary instructional day must be a minimum of six hours or its weekly equivalent 30 hours a week. Excluding lunch, Elementary instructional day must be a minimum of six hours or It's weekly equivalent of 30 hours a week, including lunch.

BT

So those are the state guidelines.

BT

The committee developed two drafts of an instructional calendar for the 23-24 school year. Please pull draft one out of your packets as I review. Some of the highlights with you concerning this calendar school will begin for students on August 21st due to the state regulations stating the opening day for students must not be before the third Monday in August.

BT

We have a full week off for Thanksgiving the last day, with students before winter break is December 20th. There's no teacher work day when returning in January and students last day would be June 3rd.

BT

If you pull out draft two out of your packets as I review, some of those highlights with you only Wednesday through Friday off for Thanksgiving the last day with students before winter break would be December. 21St teachers will receive a teacher work day prior to returning in January, and the student's last day is May 30th.

BT

After the committee provided feedback on drafts, the division of academics and innovation in collaboration with the office of communications created a survey that was distributed to teachers, parents, administrators as well as other staff members. We had 869 teachers fill out. The survey and below are some of these results. As you can see, almost 70 percent of T excuse me. Almost 70 percent of teachers prefer draft two.

BT

Teachers stated that having a full week off for Thanksgiving break was important to them. However, they did value getting out for the year before June, more.

BT

Almost 90 percent of teachers also stated that they valued a teacher work day prior to coming back from winter break.

BT

Next, we move into our survey that went out to parents and other staff members. As you can see here, we had 2986 responses. Sixty percent of these stakeholders also preferred draft two of the calendar.

BT

And over 50 percent of these stakeholders valued a full week off for Thanksgiving.

BS

Tonight's presentation is specific to 23 24..

BS

The committee will be exploring the options and opportunities of both the traditional and modified calendar for the 24-25 school year, but tonight we're asking for action on 23-24 only based on stakeholder feedback. It is the recommendation of administration to approve draft two of the 2023-2024 instructional calendar as presented.

BF

Thank you. Miss Littleton I moved to approve draft two of the 2023-2024 instructional calendar.

BG

Second, all in favor say aye.

BD

BG

Aye approved three to zero. Thank you very much for your presentation.

BG

At this time, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn.

E

BG

So moved second, we have a motion in a second any discussion, all in favor say aye aye aye emotions approved three to zero.

BF

B

I'm calling the committee on finance and human resources to order I declare there's a quorum of committee, members present and note that the media has been given proper notice, pursue it to the Freedom of Information Act. Do we have a motion to approve the agenda.

A

B

We have a second, we have a motion and a second any discussion. All in favor of the motion respond by saying, aye, aye aye, all opposed the motion is approved. Our first agenda item is out of state travel, Miss Marcy. You are recognized.

BU

Good evening finance committee chair Ramsey, board, chair mcquendlin, superintendent, Dixon and board members tonight, Finance is requesting approval of some additional out-of-state travel as presented.

B

What is the pleasure of the committee.

A

Move to approve the out-of-state travel as presented by staff.

B

Do we have a second second, we have a motion and a second all in favor. This promotion respond by saying aye.

AF

B

Aye all opposed the motion is approved, my three to zero. Our second agenda item is fpb.

B

671-22-23 commercial doors and door hardware, Miss Marcy, you're, recognized.

BU

um This bid was conducted to secure one or more qualified suppliers to provide various doors and door hardware components for our district facilities. Both of the recommended awardees have previous previously supplied these items, and one of the awardees is actually an incumbent on the previous contract. We do have an expiring contract, which is why we need to get this one replaced as quickly as possible. This is a fixed price bid which will allow the district to add additional qualified and responsible suppliers on a quarterly basis upon receipt of their responsive bid.

BU

Submissions in the future, the recommended awardees are electronic access, Specialists doing business as Southern Lock and HD Supply facilities, maintenance, limited. The projected annual contract value is fifty thousand dollars, and the cumulative contract value for a five-year term is 250. 000.

B

What is the pleasure of the committee.

A

Mr, chair I, moved to approve the award of fixed price bid, 671-223 for commercial doors and door hardware to electronic access specialist, doing business as Southern Lock and HD Supply facilities. Maintenance limited for an addition for an initial contract term of one year with an estimated value of fifty thousand dollars, with an option to renew for four additional one-year terms for a potential contract. Value of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars do.

B

We have a second.

A

B

We have a motion and a second any discussion, all those in favor of this promotion respond by saying, aye, aye aye, all those opposed. The motion is approved by a vote of three two zero. Thank you Miss. Everson. Our third agenda item is policy GE telecommuting. Second reading Dr Andrea sturkey you're recognize.

A

B

BV

I'll say Dr Natasha right, maybe for clarification. I am Natasha Wright good to see everybody um chairman Ramsey superintendent, Dr, Dixon and other board. Members Administration is requesting second reading approval of policy, GE telecommuting and as presented are there any questions.

B

What is the pleasure of the committee I.

A

Moved to approve the second reading of policy, GE telecommunity, as presented, we.

B

Have a second second, we have a motion and we have a second any discussion.

B

All those in favor of this motion respond by saying, aye, aye.

A

B

Those opposed the motion is approved by a vote of three two zero. Thank you at this time, I entertain a motion to adjourn this committee meeting and return to regular session so.

A

B

Any discussion, all those in favor of this promotion, respond by saying, aye aye. This motion is approved and we are adjourned.

BF

Next item on the agenda are reports from standing committee's first to report from the committee on academics and Innovation chair Kathy Littleton.

BG

Mr chairman, the committee on academics and Innovation met on February 7 2023 and on recommendation of the committee I moved to approve the Head Start budget expenditure report for December 2022 Head Start credit report for December 2022, self-assessment, Improvement plan strategic plan and training and technical assistance plan. We.

BF

Have a recommendation from committee, so no second is required. Is there any discussion? Hearing nunnel call the question all in favor, please respond by saying aye aye any opposed the eyes. Have it.

BG

This chairman, that concludes my report. Next.

BF

Is a committee on finance and Human Resources chairman Michael Ramsey.

B

Mr chairman, the committee on finance and Human Resources met earlier this evening and on February, the 7th 2023 and on recommendation of the committee I, moved to approve the out-of-state travel as presented.

BF

We have a recommendation from committee, so no second is required. Is there any discussion? Hearing none I'll call the question all in favor, please respond by saying aye aye any opposed the ice habit.

B

Also, on recommendation of the committee from the February 7th 2023 meeting, I moved to approve the answer to budget amendment as presented.

BF

We have a recommendation from committee, so no second is required. Is there any discussion? Hearing none I'll call the question all in favor, please respond by saying aye aye any opposed motion carries.

B

Also, a recommendation of the committee from the February 7th 2023 meeting I moved to approve the award of best value bid, numbers.

B

674-22-23 for glass, replacement and or repairs to a Morgan glass for an initial one-year term, with a projected annual value of one hundred thousand, with the option, two renew for four additional one-year terms with an estimated total contract value of five hundred thousand dollars. It's.

BF

A recommendation from committee, so no second, is required. Is there any discussion? Hearing none I'll call the question all in favor, please respond by saying aye aye. Any opposed motion carries also.

B

In recommendation of the committee from the February 7 2023 meeting I moved to approve the award of fixed price bid, numbers 672-22-23 for Athletic Field Services to Wilson and Associates sports turf Incorporated for an initial one-year term, with a projected annual value of 180 000, with the option to renew for four additional one-year terms with an estimated total contract. Value of nine hundred thousand dollars is.

BF

There any discussion, hearing, none I'll, call the question all in favor, please respond by saying aye aye. Any opposed motion carries also.

B

In recommendation of committee from earlier this evening, I moved to approve the award of a fixed price bid, number 671-22-23 or commercial doors and door hardware. Two electronic access, specialist, DBA, Southern Lock and HD Supply facilities; maintenance limited for an initial contract term of one year with an estimated value of 50 000, with the option to renew for four additional one-year terms for a potential value of two hundred and fifty thousand.

BF

Is there any discussion hearing, none I'll call the question all in favor, please respond by saying aye, aye aye. Any opposed motion carries.

B

Also on recommendation of the committee from earlier this evening, I moved to approve the second reading of policy GE Dash telecommuting, as presented.

BF

Is there any discussion and I'll call the question all in favor, please respond by saying aye aye aye any opposed motion carries Mr.

B

Chairman. That concludes my report. Thank.

BF

You Mr Ramsey. The next agenda item is the superintendent's report: Dr Dixon.

D

Thank you good evening, chair McQuillen, I'm, board, member senior cabinet and staff staff principals teachers concerned and engaged citizens of this great Community. First I want to always thank our teacher forum who are present with us tonight. We have Miss Taryn Davis at Goose, Creek High School. Thank you so much and Stephanie Williams of Cane Bay Elementary. Thank you for your service and all that you do so. Congratulations are in order for the following and today is quite a long list, which is a great thing, but also I recognize that I may leave someone out.

D

So please just make sure to share all of the positive news with our office of communications and, as my grandmother said, please charge it to my head and not my heart. Four Army Air Force I mean Air Force JROTC students from Phillip Simmons High School, soared in the first ever State Aviation competition. This week, Juniors Anderson Spina, remember these names, Ian mullaney and freshman Sam sablaski and Brian stambo captured the state stimulated flight title at the inaugural Aviation competition avacom event held at Patriots Point.

D

Their efforts brought home a couple of individual Awards as well as 750 dollars towards their school afjrotc program plus a weekend flight experience at the Triple T aerodome near Spartanburg in August. The competition included simulated flight missions and Patriots points, state of the art, flight, simulator, Airmen knowledge and aircraft, identification tests, Mission briefings and professional development workshops. Avacom is a new Statewide competition for students in aviation and Aerospace programs organized by the South Carolina Aviation High, School, I'm Alliance.

D

So congratulations to Phillip Simmons High Berkeley County School District high schools had a very strong showing at this year's South Carolina Beta convention betas from Berkeley High Cane, Bay, High, Goose, Creek, High, Philip, Simmons, high and Stratford High will be moving on to compete at the national senior convention in Louisville Kentucky because of their wins in a large group and individual categories for a full listing, and it is a full long listing of the success of our high school betas. Please visit our website.

D

More than 220 Berkeley County School District banned students performed at the South Carolina band directors, association's All, Region senior band, Clinic band and Junior band performances hosted at Cane, Bay High School this weekend. These very talented students put on quite the performance and many will be performing again in March at the South Carolina band directors, association's All-State band performance for a full listing of these students. Again, please take a look at our website.

D

We have to receive preliminary feedback from our schools who participated in the robotics competition this weekend and while I do not have yet have all the details from our winners and do not wish to leave anyone out. I did want to say congratulations to those students who competed and did well this weekend and their principals and teachers who were so excited and text me throughout the weekend of their progress in this competition.

D

Our student athlete wrestlers also competed this weekend in Lower State Cross High will be represented by seven wrestlers in the 1A and 2A individuals. Trojans.

BR

D

High will be represented by four wrestlers to the 1a2a individuals. Six Hanahan High wrestlers and four Phillip Simmons High wrestlers will compete at State, Cane Bay High will represent be represented by state by seven wrestlers and the cobras also won. The team points for the 5A Lower State Division Stratford High is sending two wrestlers to State. Goose Creek has sending four and Berkeley sending.

BH

D

Have some wrestlers in our district? So congratulations and good luck to our wrestlers basketball is also moving into semi-final um and final games. Our boys basketball. We got a Goose Creek, High School versus Somerville tomorrow night for lower lower State, semis and I. Think it's currently Happening Now Timberlake, if Timberland versus Bishop England tonight for Lower State and semifinals in Stratford versus Somerville tomorrow night for Lower, State, semis and last in our congratulations, but most um certainly not least, I want to say a big congratulations uh to all of our school level.

D

Teachers of the year. We look forward to celebrating and recognizing all of you on March, 8th foreign.

D

Last week was bus driver appreciation week and by all accounts, our bus drivers were celebrated well by their schools, their bus riders bus slots and supporting departments. Our bus drivers are vital to the success of our students and the district. We could never say thank you enough for what they do to ensure more than twenty thousand students get to the school and back home safely. Every day we also celebrated our school resource officers last week for SRO Appreciation Day.

D

Once again, our schools celebrated these highly engaged officers, and they were surprised with lunch from our District's security and Emergency Management officers. We appreciate all of our law enforcement partners for the vital role they play in ensuring campus safety.

D

This month is Black History Month, and we have enjoyed the many activities sponsored by our schools and Community organizations to recognize the accomplishments of our African-American Heroes. Last Monday I had the opportunity to attend the Goose Creek naacp's black history month program, during which I gave a brief, welcome and our very own Dr Glenda Levine was our Miss Master of Ceremonies. I also want to thank our I said it again.

D

Our Glenda Levine for her service in this program, The Goose Creek chapter of the NAACP, also unveiled a new stamp at this event, and it was of the author, Ernest Gaines. Thank you to Our, Community Partners and our schools for your support. This past Friday was a busy day for our teachers and District staff. As we all gathered for Berkeley County, School District's annual conference Day event conference day is a professional development. Day held every February.

D

It is a chance for teachers and staff to sign up for classes and most of them led by other teachers within our district, and they share lesson plans, skills and techniques that they can incorporate into their own classrooms. There was a large variety of classes and workshops being offered all day between the Cane, Bay and Sangaree school campuses.

D

Teachers learned about uh new Ela standards that are coming in to unplay the art of the Japanese fish Printing and how it can be used in both Art and Science classes. There were CPR and stopped the bleed training sessions. Teachers could sign up for, and there was even a nice quiet room where some teachers did a quick yoga session to woosa and learn how students can also benefit from it.

D

During the day, some classes feature special guests certified instructors from Charleston craft McGraw, LED selected staff through training on real life scenarios like hostage situations and the district's security and emergency team led an active shooter gunfire assimilation for staff. Members I want to personally thank our teacher forum and our office of professional development for making this conference a world-class event and a reality each year.

D

It is no easy feat to have different sites and people going different places and everything just ran very smoothly, and thank you to all of our staff, our teachers, our invited guests, our senior cabinet, our division, coordinators and directors for your participation in leading in this event as well. If you want to check out the photos and more information again check out our website, there's is so much that you can gain from there from the work that you have done. It's definitely inspiring and I look forward to continuing to improve the work that we do.

D

Making more connections.

AU

D

Our teaching and learning and our instructional framework together here at um in Berkeley County Schools Mr chair. That concludes my report. For this evening.

BF

Thank you, Dr Dixon, I didn't have much to report tonight, but uh one of the hardest things that uh we deal with as board members is hearing about students that leave us too soon, and um this past week we lost the first, a first grader Philip Simmons Elementary.

BF

In a car accident on the way home from school, I'm, sorry I didn't think I was going to do this um I just like to remind everyone. It was a reminder to me to treat every day like it should last with your family, with your students and just hug, your loved ones and I'd. Ask that you please keep the family in your thoughts and prayers.

BF

This time, I'd entertain a motion to adjour.

BG

BF

We have a motion to adjourn. Is there any discussion? Hearing, none I'll call the question all in favor, please respond by saying aye aye any opposed. We are adjourned.

BF

That ain't happening.

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