School Board Meeting Essay

I decided to go to the school board meeting because I was once a student that went through Columbia Public School. I wanted to hear what has changed the past few years after I left Columbia Public School and entered college. There was a big discussion on building more elementary schools and a middle school in the near future due to the increase rate of kids in Boone County. The issues were money and finding ways to get the kids prepare for kindergarten and having them do better in school such as reading for example. One of the issues that were discussed was having summer meetings. The policy makers wanted to have meetings in the summer to figure out the workload and split the workload up, instead of meeting in September and attacking the big

She made a powerpoint that she showed to the policy makers and to the audience. She brought up, Cradle of Career Alliance, which is a non-profit program for kids. To deal with this issue, we needed to discover the root causes, find the best practices, innovate ideas, deterrents to success, and then move to action to see if there is an improvement in the kindergarten’s knowledge. She showed a bar graph on kindergarten’s literacy in Boone County and how it was decreasing over the years. The presenter talked about having these little kids start their education at a young age, which is preschool and observe each kid closely and see if they’re having a hard time learning. She brought up how kids that dealt with traumatic events had a harder time focusing for a long period of time compare to other kids who doesn’t. She also talked about how these kids needed to learn about the function of the brain. I disagreed to this idea because they’re too young to even understand what the brain really does. These kids will not understand the parts of the brain such as the frontal lobe, cerebellum, midbrain, pons, and their functions. That is a higher level of thinking and that wasn’t very ideal to teach these young kiddos at that