Late Start Update (5 minutes)

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▶ 11:33 Speaker 4: okay please my you have a memo on late start a quick summary um just to just learn today that arlington will be joining us next year they're moving their start time to 8 30.

▶ 11:48 Speaker 4: so within the league we will be up to eight communities within the league out of 12 who have moved to late start and that was the original tent middlesex league would move in this together

▶ 12:03 Speaker 4: so we're at that point lexington is changing their time but i'm afraid i think it's only going up to like 745 so that really is not considered beneficial I know that's

▶ 12:16 Speaker 4: the note I got the other day on that one I think the most significant impact as I tell you in my my memo at the middle school we've had a 43% drop in tardies that is huge at the high school it's been about 17.3 it's too early to see impact on student outcomes but we are monitoring that as we go along no

▶ 12:40 Speaker 4: complaints from the students some complaints about traffic I know some of you have been privy to those complaints about traffic on the parkway and the

▶ 12:48 Speaker 4: parkway has always been tough you have approximately 1,800 students and about So 200, 250 adults arriving on campus at the same time, whether it's at, you know, 8 o'clock or 7.45, makes no difference.

▶ 13:05 Speaker 4: It's a traffic jam there. We have done traffic studies, as you all know, trying to figure out better ways, and it is a dilemma that we have yet to resolve.

▶ 13:18 Speaker 4: There has been some unintentional consequences on athletics. For us personally, there has been a little bit of a bumpy road in adjusting rentals with the rec. That should get better over time. And then some of the other problems that have happened is depending on when the other schools dismiss, they've had some issues around, so we still get out at a reasonable hour, 2.41. But the schools that are getting out, 305, 310, have had to do some early dismissals for tournaments and things like that. But as we all know, the MIAA, if they want to have the golf tournament at 10 o'clock

▶ 13:59 Speaker 6: in the morning, you're dismissing your kids at 10 o'clock in the morning.

▶ 14:03 Speaker 4: And the last thing is wraparound at the elementary schools actually turned out to be more popular than we thought. It was originally intended for those children whose older siblings come to walk them home. And many parents saw it as, ooh, this is a great opportunity for me to come later for whatever reason, whether I'm doing errands or I'm stuck in the office. And so, as you know, we're going to rethink wraparound, Patty White-Landright will be

▶ 14:34 Speaker 4: coming forward later in either, I think probably the beginning of July with a new plan to revisit how we do that service after school.

▶ 14:41 Speaker 7: Mr. Soong. Thank you. Thank you for the information here. You comment that it's too soon to tell if there's been an impact on student outcomes in the classroom. Anecdotally, what are you hearing from the staff in terms of productivity, enthusiasm, engagement, homework compliance from the students?

▶ 15:05 Speaker 4: I think it's still variable. I think there's multiple factors involved. Overall, we have very, very good kids. I think we all know that. And they are pretty compliant. Because at the same time, other things are happening. We're working on our habits of learning. We're working on test retakes. We're working on more project-based learning. So there's multiple, as you know as a scientist,

▶ 15:32 Speaker 6: when you have too many, what am I looking, what's the word I'm looking for?

▶ 15:33 Speaker 7: You've got too many variables to.

▶ 15:34 Speaker 4: Too many variables. I understand. Thank you. And no control group to compare to. Right, exactly. So that's exactly, so it's a little harder to tell. no i am at the middle school like like i said because their environment's a little bit more controlled you can see it uh in the in the uh toddies because don't forget at the high school we also have um late start for seniors if they don't have a first period class sure okay very

▶ 16:00 Jennifer McAndrew: good thank you okay mr mccandrick and just following up with that the learning commons is open early right what time like 7 15 or something like that yeah okay so students who need to be there earlier or who need to meet with teachers they still have that opportunity or do a club or something they still have that we do a lot of

▶ 16:17 Speaker 4: clubs early in the morning now so that that's that's been helpful and the middle school teacher gives breakfast but they do shoo the kids back outside before

▶ 16:32 Speaker 2: it's time to go upstairs okay great thank you for this

▶ 16:34 Speaker 1: anything further for the superintendent seeing nothing further thank you superintendent next up is our consent agenda which this evening consists of the following items the school committee regular meeting minutes from May 21 2019 a cafeteria report a personnel report a monthly budget summary and the following warrants FY 19 school s 1 9 0 5 3 the amount of five hundred eighty thousand seven hundred thirty six dollars and thirty five cents FY 19 made meals tax S19054 in the amount of $91.63 and finally FY19 high school wire transfer for the month of May S19055 the amount of $26,596.34 are there any items which any members wish to remove from the consent agenda