Agenda - Council - 05/27/1997 - Laserfiche WebLink

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· Three meals a day, 7 days a week available at schools with activities for kids who don't have that available at home. Make it available to everyone so kids in those situations aren't so noticeable and perhaps they would participate. · Stop racism. Stop drug sales and use especially in our schools!! Treat foster children and disadvantaged youth the same as other children. · Get a life before you get a sex life. Explicit sex education should be removed from the schools! This is not a teachers responsibility but is the responsibility of parents. Ebonies are an insult to the black race. · Work with Student Venture on an assembly program next fall with Milton Creagh. Make high school starting times later; promote afternoon community youth activities involving businesses, schools, and police. Educate kids on the dangers of drug use and sex at an early age. Teach high values, morals and ethics in order to help families through tough times. I wish the professionals (teachers, etc.) would act out their profession of concern for kids instead of whining about poor working conditions, poor wages, needing more time off, long hours, etc. No one made them become teachers and youth professionals. Not my job and it if were, l'd do it with pleasure like I do my job More counseling for students in school. Get the word out on what's going on with what is positive in ISD #11. Youth are doing so much, i.e., smoke out for 6th graders, testing Rum River, etc. What about DARE? l've read it's not very effective whe.n the kids are in high school. Should more money be spent on this./ F. But not used to spy on parent! E. Addressed by after-school programs; why don't we start the middle and high schools later and the elementary earlier as all studies recommend? Everyone knows teens prefer to sleep late! After school and extra curricular activities are important. I work with EBD students at Wilson Elementary. I see such a need just to spark some interest in kids who have never been involved in group activities such as soccer, baseball, etc. and let them know it is "cool" to be involved in good activities. I also see a need for caring adults who can really see beyond the negative behaviors and to really see the good in kids. · Provide more activities at school (after school and evenings). Maintain strict discipline and moral codes during school and in activities. Call parents of disruptive kids and hold them accountable for their child's actions. · Public schools don't seem as safe anymore, t have a 17 month old and it scares me to think what they will be like in a few years. · Too many tax dollars are being poured into education and kids can't read! Get back to the basics, and get the parents to be more responsible for their kids! Yes, I am a parent and I am involved in their lives. · 1 graduated years ago from Anoka High School. We had rules to follow, dress codes, had to use proper language, respect the other; person. We cared about the other person. We cared about ourselves. The school played a big part in passing on the values to students. · 1 think it might me helpful to upper elementary students to show them both sides of the issue. Build stronger communities in schools so youth are held accountable to one another. · Support your local teachers and schools, community ed. programs and quit shoving so many people into small plots of land. We don't have room in the schools!! · Rise in cigarette use by minors should be addressed. The DARE program shc~uld be stressed and encouraged. From what's been published not very many youth are involved in it. · t believe the steps taken so far have been very good for our youth and communities. However, I can still see room for improvement, especially for our younger youth ages 7-12. I feel we need to try to read these children more aggressively. · Teenage pregnancy and the subsequent dependency on welfare are concerns. School based classes teaching abstinence rather than birth control would help. · Students should be safe (on the bus and in school) from harassment and from other students (includes halls, {unchroom, everything!) I removed two of my children from school because it was okay for peers to humiliate the Iow.income kids for fi'ee lunches and not dressing in style. I I I I I I: I I I I I I I I I I