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Coffee With The Principals/Town Hall Meeting 09-13-2023

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thank you very much play Scott Calum Scott. good morning. This is been a wonderful school year and I'm really excited we've gotten a diagnostic English and math and are having seen such as well as we started to have some events that we have our first High School dance this week so we were able to get it like we're getting diagnostic exam on the Family Radio most people we have our second annual homecoming game as well as if you see that gets out of uniform this week it's hopeless I'm really happy to be here I have to step out in a little bit but I will stop by. I just have to do a quick check in with me good morning I just want to say hi sorry I just got here it's great to see you all this morning happy Wednesday it's been it's been a great job first five weeks of school and we're excited to us you were the rest of your Texas located one of the ushers what is a great school greatschools rating which is the usual different factors or the greatschools rating but it went out and we are now what an 8 on the greatschools rating Angel Spot College in West Esplanade play when does exciting should be happy hits khaki pants we are calling him notify answer so important our students will sometimes we're on the Middle School side they'll have black man and a black sweatshirt on which means you can't necessarily see their their uniform shirt colors and so what that means is it's possible for Middle School where's to go over to the high school side if High School also have black pants on and so this is a very easy visual cue for us to keep students separated and safe and this is something that we we haven't seen happen this year or last year but it happened a couple years ago where we had an eighth grade female student was trying to hang out on the High School site what did you say it was a person take a second look at our policy and find a way to make sure that there were more clear indicators of who was in middle school and he was in high school because he what about the plants so we've been trying to make the school paper with the uniform and that includes the fact that we actually started selling appropriate pants on fire this year Delta bail already there. We've been addressing students at the middle school side would have really large pants were especially concerned with large pants that can conceal things in were concerned about the pants with lots and lots of pockets but can you show a list of Okeechobee Boulevard let us so we've been reaching out to the individual family and the reason we're so concerned about those pants is because as you well know Vapes and Drugs in general or a problem is lots of different schools and really baggy pants or pants with lots of pockets of car open just provide more places to hide things Elizabeth City sunset you know we're really worried about pipes were worried about the fight that took place after school and kind of like what can be done about that. how's it going to snow the situation that occurred on Rite Aid was with a student who does not go to work. It was one of our students and a student from a School were sending messages on social media and their way of resolving that online conflict was to have a fight in person and locations in u.s.a. you looks better know it's not one of my languages so I just want the Family Stone we do as much as we can in terms of supervision on site and during the school day because we want to maintain our safety eventos en but we also need help because a lot of the stuff starts on social media and I just want to I want to let families know that a lot of the cell services are providing more and more options of cell phones that don't have to forgive you Alameda Alameda gab g a b b it is a cell phone that has no social media apps and no internet and it does not allow or on sending out images in open m Monday remind so that's one option another option is pinwheel this is an option and will also allows similar levels of control for what strings do with their phones get them. and I bring this up because fights are not the only negative impact on that we see from social media there have been many studies done about the effects of social media especially or adolescence and Adolescent females social media is one of the causes of depression and anxiety music Monica Salon Saloon looking at getting my 7th grader a phone and we're going to be looking at 10 Wheel & gab as our primary option pinwheel will allow you to continue to use your own network at 11 to prepare Verizon or AT&T excetra their service and their own that's the first thing about the fight that's good to know about the second one is you talked about consequences when it's important for all the parents to know that our school serves at the will or only with the authorization of LAUSD where to go leusd makes certain demands of all of the charter schools that are authorized the others Beyond Sushi charter school and charter schools start using stricter consequences than the LAUSD schools than LAUSD seriously consider not renewing our Charter Charter with Eliza videos lots of sleep so we are limited in terms of what consequence we offer as we follow the LAUSD Matrix LAUSD they look at how many suspensions we have and we compared those numbers of suspensions to their arm you can Google LAUSD discipline Matrix and it will show you they have category one Category 2 and category three offences Los Angeles Bala Bala from when we went to school with many of us when we were growing up I still remember that my elementary school the principal had a paddle that's illegal now in almost every state in Katy Texas maybe Florida definitely not here in California so it's just important for parents to know that sometimes we like to have Hearts for Hearts or Consequences but we're limited by what LAUSD have provided for us. Okay I'll be busy. ESPN never seen that went off her daughter and the patience or a girl okay disrespectful disrespected like a big it's like a big when you want to call this it's hard to Define basement light on my very broad category of disrespect and we've observed that most situations where a student felt they were disrespected most situations not all the most situations was a problem of perception La Rumba okay we can't comment on specific situations but we can talk about like what would generally happens if it's a situation if it's a situation that has not occurred with the teacher before then we would have basically like a a norm setting or a redirection of what to do in the future okay see you soon what is a miasma of the Romantic the consequences are more severe she's bad when I get to the teachers contract no longer being renewed is it let me know me what year. do you have any kind of Italy selling homes and I would also just encourage families like the feedback loop of families is really really important on and what I mean by that is sometimes students are going to share something with you that they haven't shared with another adult on campus so take me to staff of life specific situations taking the step updating in touch with the counselor or the administrator is really really important and we appreciate when families do that asean what time is it lady that you would like or the school and handle that situation. If you did come and speak with a counselor I'm aware of the situation and I know that they're there were changes that were made as a result that's awesome about shade and stayed out on the courts I've been up late last year they added to things out on the course they added a giant like 150 lb 5-10 shade over the tables so it actually extended all the way the last extends all the way from one side to the other across all of the tables that are on this side is 60. Cuz we were also can and about just the overall temperature is and also a student having enough shape okay mom is actually regarding this mom is asking or a scene when it rings that come out to the restroom and chewing so I'm not percent sure about what happens on the high school side but on the Middle School side we actually the bathrooms on the bottom floor have doors both inside and outside and when it's raining or when their power washing this happening we close the outside yours and redirect students to enter from the inside weather lasagna send a Vonage is San Xavier do you know that because of the Heat and structures right by the bathroom doors on the outside so that students were waiting to go in to use the restroom aren't just sitting and standing in the Sun so we really do try to take into account like the weather and how that impacted if we don't want kids you know either a getting wet or be getting sunburned in the high tonight is it going to snow tomorrow we have a couple questions one is about staff being overworked or not having access to vacation time it was there are lots of their lots of categories of employees at a school and their vacation time is provided according to it and I don't know if the I don't know if the request is more RSS nothing is more specific but if staff are hourly then they can take time off but they just won't be paid for those days teachers actually you know they have their vacations that are built into the schedule a little nicer theaters if I'm bipolar and then they can take they can take sick time if needed and we do try to let the teachers know as long as you give us a heads up ahead of time so that we can get the substitute Mike we understand if you need a mental health day don't be afraid to ask us for a mental health day eat some beer has the most people but we get lots of requests for time off and we say yes to basically all of them the only thing we have concerns about is when there are multiple days in a row is it located how many days more than two in a row that they provide some documentation of doctor visit oh you're talkin about families. Families and we got a lot of rope that we know he said you brought you to get them on grade level do for staff that's how I'm going to be going to Hawaii in January but it's not going to be on time when kids are so weird we try to be strategic we ask our staff to be strategic to try to take those times when students and families are impacted so there's there is vacation time built in until like teachers yet I think the full three weeks during separate during winter break they get the fall break they get that the spring break as well as a summer's stop at do have vacation time or working during those times so that that way then there is time to Bill's house and we try and be as understanding as possible to try to Bala haven't you seen the classroom is the most impossible thing we can do for kids in school when they're a life event that basically don't come around very often we try to be particularly thoughtful about how we respond so if someone was getting married and they needed extended time off that would be something that we would say you know absolutely like is it a major life event if you need some extra time we can we can prove that looking for me to call somebody. Annalisa mobile. what am I supposed to be a canal. I know I have a couple other guys I've been asleep how many days you had a ride to me as a present during the school year extenuating circumstances like illness and so forth I tried I tried to take less than 11 so maybe maybe 10:00 and I'm in a whole year San Jose tomorrow so I was supposed to get the students brakes but principals do not so I normally take my days off during those brakes as well weather Monday in I haven't gotten sick and I took one personal day Staples hours so maybe I need to what's the grocer that with our operation seems to follow I'm sorry about that and thank you for taking the picture when these things do happen please report them and we'll make sure we follow up with the food vendor to make sure that they don't have any further there was a question about proposition 28 28 is yes the public in 28 this the comment was about proposition 28 proposition 28 got passed by California voters in recent years and it increases funding or Arts education call Kayla Brooke Posey  Georgia well there are four categories Visual and Performing Arts painting and there's Digital Arts which is creating images using computers and Technology there's music in Stow we had a meeting with the organization last week about what funds were available when this gives us an opportunity to hire a new arts teacher were the complex just a little bit about what type of arts teacher family I'd like us to try to find it but yeah but we literally we had meeting with our team on Friday and on the same day mr. I reached out to are hiring manager to start looking for a map of teachers Mister tie dye Wisconsin one last thing cuz I always say this janko's saying you know we're always ready and I I just want to like add to that and a couple different ways I never one always reading the boys are students are reading at home the more that there are there reading those grow the more there be able to be successful in high school and college place of birth on the second one is we're going to try to change up our tradition a little bit and one of those Traditions is wrong with the grades going home or the 5-week report we're going to be including the i-Ready reports off for the families in there for the middle school because we want the family to have some clarity about how their suits are doing academically or we can do cash or payments company d and this is a surprise that I will support that's a really important reminder a student could be two or three or four grade levels below but they might still be getting an A or a B in the bus is there a Lube okay okay thank you on the I read a report indicates needs Improvement that is that's an urgent urgent needs Improvement it's not just needs a little bit of improvement it means that there's a lot of improvement. a new number since I'll go get the report for high school I don't think is available with i-Ready so we have to calculate it internally what we've done is kids already have seen their scores and and had time to reflect on them in advisory and we communicated with them so we can get advisory as far as the parent report we don't have it French but we're really trying to make sure that we are making soon as we can also communicate with family go to 70 is it also if you have interest or feedback on what type of Art we should be bringing on please feel free to share that in the space with Miss Alvarez or myself directly we have opened up the positions and we're starting to look through applicants It's a combination of what are School need to put our kids are interested in what are families went as well as who's actually applying and making sure we get the right person to work with our kids and that would be a position that could benefit high school middle school but we have in our Budget Tire when our teacher or the complex located unless they like it was going to be played and I also do have a question about Staffing about 9th grade Living Earth with their biology class you'd look at our science teacher Miss Abernathy resigned by the way we currently on the process of trying to figure out who is going to be teaching and spare got a plan for 9th Grade science one thing we are committed to doing it in the short-term has made were making sure that our our veteran teachers are in constant experts are training lesson plans for that instruction continues and it's not just study hall in the wording in in science or government and we are explorers of Sky and for Living Earth we do have someone Davis be that is I already should be starting next week and work it and start working with the kids that is how does a stem background McDonald's license and the work should be counting as far as the transition or that we're trying to do the best we can to make sure it is as seamless as possible we do have the person that will be in the in the room and we expect me for the rest of the year retained earnings this week so that they're cleared to be on site next starting to take over the class we have our experience on types of mr. kg working in there right now who is made sure that the lessons are facilitated we had Direct instruction is not just work or study hall with the grating of it is something that we they're really great we're going to be working on that with it with a transition it we're doing the best we can with it because this is the moment. in an outlet and I thought he jumped his boss Humanities teacher is pre license for governor to make sure we have instruction continuing in the short-term as we'd try to find someone to take that position that it was misspelled because they're not lies. spinach if that's your goal of last week and so are we are we are working out I know but the position as soon as soon as it happened I made sure that we have some plans I do have another question about the the free dress for High School they look it up I want to hear some because the days that I had a freezer is my daughter a short I was debating with her watching Charlie puth yeah they wouldn't know since you were so those cargo pants with a lot of pockets on the side so we pay for that uniform in advance is coming to school and she's allowed come over here at work I spoke to wish you a middle school that there are restricted on Wednesday uniform button there any kind so they're allowed to come however they want so I don't condone it want to have a fist fight with her and she doesn't listen to me so she comes to school there was one of the reasons we have dress code for the high school and middle school is to make sure the the focus of the school day is spent on learning beneath the middle school or slightly different than high school just with the age difference for high school for the uniform what we are expecting is a khaki pants in the end of polo shirt take vacation we are seeing students meeting that expectation overall play sister I love her and I hear the feedback around and the shorts and the free dress expectations my next steps are there to pick it up with my admin team to clarify with the policy is so we can clarify with teachers students and then set of parents whereabouts expectations and we can start doing that when we do have upcoming free dresses Olympics Joe Manganiello one thing that we are allowing this year that is a change what are the students when we are when we are imma try to create the rationale for it our argument was try to prepare you for a career and their argument was nursing is a career and and I see nurses in Crocs and when we when we did allow proxy we're not seeing any impact on the actual learning and so long as they're in sport mode and I can slide mode just received we ever had to exit the building we're not seeing Crocs having an impact on learning and took to their Point Nursing is a very valid fear I would love to see many of our Scholars going to I know it seems like a big thing seems like a small thing for crops but he was a big thing for some of our students and we want to listen to Arsenal as much as we are getting into college in the opportunities they want out Father's Day to respond locate you guys are going to be a lot of work but don't bring these type of pants or at least the weather how do you know I'm worried that you won't believe what I say is no cross over here so that the prophecy for that back but I was waiting the one with the LAUSD laustic allowing them to have him so maybe it was because Bailey you are allowing it. it was just a really strong smell their argument and then when the student that was wearing the Crocs we weren't any impact on learning or or behavior they just wanted to wear shoes that were comfortable half price book and the black from middle school and I do miss your call stop around that that is a way for us to keep the school safe given that we have two different Barry needs a jump rope okay. Stop. okay specific questions China Wok but you can keep it up and yes. What cushion can would you recommend are there are a couple things that I would recommend any or any of her classes and just general advice is to be responding to emails within 24 hours so reaching out to directly and if you want to meet with a teacher you guys I would strongly encourage you to do that call B credentialed teachers that really blue Starlight station in our line with getting his to graduate and have the opportunity to be eligible for a college is I love you. Was on a 45 we'll figure out the win my first recommendation makes you connect with them directly and respond that way if there's challenge beyond that connecting with an administrator to be able to try and go from there would be the next episode on a regular basis passengers will have a blanket administrator that is providing support and guidance and coaching until we're done we're in classrooms on a regular basis to make sure that learning is happening and quality of instruction is happening directions to stock and so if there is a parent be back to be able to better support that teacher give feedback to support like your child or your kid we want to make sure we're giving in that way school hour before school to 70%. during hours to do those tutoring hours is Google call Keith Urban somebody else maybe I'll just do what I want one question is the cell phones yes I don't know if we do have the expectation that as soon as don't have your cell phone out that doesn't have that cell phone out and get it and sometimes we do we try to work with the student in the family to make sure that it is is not out too because it becomes a distraction during class sometimes it's used inappropriately during school so we are doing our best to address that sometimes kids are calling your parents are there messaging with their parents as well which it also makes it hard to enforce because we don't want to say don't talk to your mama don't talk to your dad that's not the best we watched all right the help enforce this is if you do need to contact your scholar do it through that the main office if you're doing it during school hours is a AAA go-kart user weather like what's today's date vacation you look like ESO go to remind me parents that after school as well we do have a psycho a parent or vice versa and thank you. 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