The item on the Agenda, "Inspirational Moment", should be re-named. What in the world was Amelia McKie thinking, when she invited the kids to play for the board? They tried hard; they did well, considering. But the result was horrible. The kids have not yet developed tonal agreement, and the teacher/conductor should have known it. I was a beginning band student many years ago. The only way you get better is practice, practice, practice. Invite them back in 6-8 years.
And a standing ovation from the board? Really?
Apparently, no board member, including the Board Secretary, read the Minutes of the February 22, 2022 board meeting. Had they read them, they would have noticed the error at Item 10.3 BEDI. The Minutes are incorrect. The Minutes record that the Motion passed. According to the voting record shown, it failed.
For: Agostini, Scott, Manning
Against: Caution-Parker, McKie, Holmes
A 3-3 tie? Vote fails.
What's missing is the Yes vote by Mrs. McFadden.
This is why the announced vote at meeting should be the votes For and Against, and then the result. Instead, Holmes often announces the result and sometimes not even the vote count.
The Board Secretary is responsible for the Minutes. While she is not the recording secretary (a District employee is), McKie should be reading the Minutes with a critical eye and either getting them corrected before they are sent out to Trustees and placed in the Agenda, or she should be asking for the Minutes to be removed from the Consent Agenda and corrected.
Fourteen-year-old RVHS student Ethan Lopez made excellent comments during Public Participation. Be sure to listen to Ethan's remarks on livestream.com/richland2, March 8, 2022, beginning at 1:28:04.
He told the board what he had seen and heard on January 25, 2022. He heard Pamela Davis call him an "effing child" and say "... will be put in your effing place". She then called him "a piece of (inappropriate word)". (The word starts with "s" and ends with "t:; fill in the blanks.) He saw a cop and board members restrain the superintendent.
None of that was reported in the statement put out by the District's Media Services Department.
James Manning interrupted him. Wrongly, I shall add. Manning should have kept his mouth shut. He is not the Chair. Was he trying to protect the superintendent and Pamela Davis? Manning also said it was a personnel issue that was being addressed by Administration. IT IS NOT. The January 25 event was swept under the rug.
Trustee McFadden challenged Manning's objection, saying that Ethan should have the right to speak.
The Chair ruled in Ethan's favor and "let him" continue. It also appeared that she extended his time to compensation for the interruption. Holmes had introduced Ethan by his full name and had it on paper right in front of her. But then she didn't know his last name and asked him. Dumb!!!
Will Pamela Davis be disciplined for conduct unbecoming a teacher? Will she be suspended? Will her pay be docked? Will she be fired?
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