Greg presented the survey results.

• Multiple choice
  • General “No change”
  • “How often do you worry about violence at AMSA?”
    • 20 from last years’ survey
    • Student recorded altercations involving pushes, shoves, punches, etc. 
    • Middle School students are main culprits
• Family survey open response items:
• Lots of diversity

• Multiple choice
  • More optimistic about AMSA’s direction 
  • School climate is much lower than last year
  • Very common this year about a lack of motivation 
    • “Don’t like what is being taught”
    • “Personally see a lot less willingness to be excited. Learning for the sake of learning. Percentage of “just getting through it” 
    • College is expensive, professors don’t teach….what’s the point in working towards that?
    • Students are submitting work that is generated due to taking shortcuts. 
    • AI is being used to save time for projects. 
    • Homework and policies have a huge difference between districts
      • Some towns allow it, others don’t
    • New program to look at students from 7th - 8th grade that are failing courses to build them up (F, D, C-?)
• Open Response Surveys:
  • See attached agenda item for specicics regarding Mike’s summary from a veteran teacher
  • Teachers frustrated amongst each other for lack of enforcement of school rules.
  • Teachers behavior does not send the right messages to students
  • Better administrative structures would help with making rules clear and how things need to be run
    • A lot of “scar tissue” from prior admins on how things were handled in the past.

Stephan thanks Greg for his service on the committee and the board for the past 2 years.