Agenda for 11/1
1) Approval of Minutes
2) Reports
3) 3 test motion
4) Bylaw notification
5) Open gym motion
6) Notes & New business
Council
Minutes of 10/25
1) Approval of minutes
2) Reports
(DSB) DSB
met on Tuesday and discussed 5 major goals for the year. Two goals are forming
the strategic planning committee and talking about curriculum. Kelsey is a
member of the strategic planning committee so talk to her if you’re interested
in participating. Next DSB meeting is on Tuesday Nov. 26.
(SL) discussing a motion brought
to us about having a bell in between class. (SA) encourge others to go to other
school sanctioned events. Be a spectator for a sport outside your own.
(Admin) talked about x-periods, how
to approach with solutions specific to circumstances (e.g. classes like P.E.,
Health, etc.). Also looking at creating an easier student handbook with FAQs
and other easy features.
(Curric) Common App does ask, “has a
student ever been disciplined”, so they still do have to report. Working on restorative
justice.
(Mr. Berube) Weight room is open four days
a week, Monday-Thursday from 3:15-4:15. Students who want to work out need to sign a waiver
that is available in the athletic office.
3)
CONDOM MOTION
Motion: “I move to shut down the
high school for sixteen days in protest of the fact that we don’t have condoms
in the bathrooms”
Amendment:
“I move to
have condoms in the bathrooms”
Authorship
speech: Despite the unprofessional way in which this motion was first presented,
this is a real and important issue that should be explored, hopefully by Student
Life since adequate research has not yet been conducted.
Debate:
•Research needs to be done
•Condoms are available in the nurse’s office
•Council has discussed this before
• Many mental health reasons
in favor of having readily available contraception for teens
•Look into how community would
react
•Worried
this would increase the amount of sex on school grounds
•Should be available to kids
•Talking
to someone face to face about this is important
• Why better to have in the
bathroom?
o
Uncomfortable talking with nurse
o
Social anxiety presents real issue for some people who wish to practice
safe sex but who don’t want to talk to random adults about it
·
Great topic for CG to discuss – discussion can be opened up to the
school
Debate closes.
Amendment passes.
Referral: “I move to refer this to the student life committee”
Referral passes.
FRESHMEN OFF-CAMPUS MOTION
[Student
Life]: We are bringing this motion back with neither a recommendation to fail
nor a recommendation to pass because we don’t want to burden council with a 2/3
majority requirement to go against our decision. We don’t feel like we are any
better informed than the rest of council on this issue, so we feel
uncomfortable making a recommendation. One person on our committee wanted to
recommend to fail because he felt that freshmen need to spend a whole year
becoming part of the school culture and getting into school activities before they
start leaving campus.
•
We need to be grateful for what we already have and not jeopardize our
privileges
• We should listen to the parents; ~70-75% of them
don’t support this because they know the system, value open campus, and don’t
want us to jeopardize the program
•[Mr. Smith] We shouldn’t make
this change to our already flawed open campus system. Few people actually sign
out and if they do their markings are often illegible. Most poor behavior
reported by the Co-op is the work of the 10th graders. This shows
that the maturation process is important.
• Need to remember to keep
pushing the boundaries – don’t need to be scared of the state, parents, etc.
• We are supposed to represent the students
•
Need to be sure to let community know what our process has been so they know
that
Debate closes.
Roll-Call on the Motion.
Motion Fails.
MICROPHONE MOTION
Motion:
“I move to
not use microphones”
Debate:
•Prevents effective and
proficient communications
•Minutes
are difficult to write if people are too quiet
•Make
sure to speak up so everyone can hear if we choose to not use microphones
Debate closes.
Motion passes.
Meeting Adjourns.
