I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Chris, will you please move to adopt the agenda? I move that we adopt the agenda as posted. Second. Okay. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Aye. Okay. The motion passes to adopt the agenda. We're now moved to recognizing our own, and I will call up Jenny Todd and Dr. Kachewski. Good evening, everyone. We're extremely excited to be here tonight to recognize our own Clayton High School students and an absolutely amazing achievement to discuss this evening. So every year College Board recognizes our students who demonstrate exceptional academic achievement through their performance on AP exams, and so last year we had a total of 187 AP scholars that were recognized, and of that 187 students, 91 earned the top honor of AP scholar with extinction. What that means is that those students earned a total of on five exams a score of three or higher and averaged a total of 3.5 on all of their exams that were taken, and that is a testament to the hard work of the students, of our educators, and their families. Now because the tests were taken last year some of our students actually graduated in 2025, but we would like to recognize those students and our current students who earned this amazing award. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. I would also like to note we have so many. This is a great problem to have. We have so many that we couldn't have them all come here tonight, so that's why their names were up on the screen, and I just want to congratulate Dr. Kaczewski and Ms. Todd and everyone at the high school and especially the students who put in all the hard work studying for the exams, so thank you and congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Do you have any idea, do we have like more than most schools in the area? Or the most? I thought so. I have compared over the years actually our average scores in the public areas of other districts and our scores are generally better. Great. Well thank you and congrats. Moving on to public comment. We do have a few tonight. I'm going to start with Sarah. You can come up to this microphone here. Before you get started I want to remind everyone if you have not made a public comment before. You're each given three minutes. There will be a timer on the screen and we don't respond publicly here at this meeting but you will get a follow-up email so that we don't engage in discussions about public comments. Okay. Thank you. Can you hear me? Go ahead. My name is Sarah. I'm a resident of Clayton and a former Clayton student K-12.

My name is Sarah. I'm a resident of Clayton and a former Clayton student K-12. I'm here because I'm concerned the district doesn't have the full information about what partnering with the Anti-Defamation League entails. I'm also an educator and instructional coach and in that capacity I've worked in a number of schools and districts across the country and we've had conversations about the ADL so I'm here to share what I know with you all today and hope you will reconsider this partnership. The Anti-Defamation League presents itself as an anti-hate and inclusive organization but it is in fact deeply biased and political and they have a history of fostering environments of fear and intimidation through their work that I think is important to consider when bringing this into our district. I'm worried that it threatens the tradition of fostering student curiosity, student voice and critical thinking that we have at Clayton. The ADL is in fact an anti-Semitic organization. It regularly attacks Jewish organizers and individuals and organizations that don't align with them politically and I think that's also something to consider. In addition to other Jewish organizations, they attack other civil rights organizations, often civil rights organizations that advocate for the civil rights of minorities. In the 90s, they were sued and fined for amassing illegal information about members of the NAACP, ACLU, organizations that work with LGBTQ members and congressmen.

In addition to other Jewish organizations, they attack other civil rights organizations, often civil rights organizations that advocate for the civil rights of minorities. In the 90s, they were sued and fined for amassing illegal information about members of the NAACP, ACLU, organizations that work with LGBTQ members and congressmen. The other thing that I think is important to consider is that their definition of anti-Semitism really craftily includes this idea that criticism of Israel, the state of Israel is anti-Semitic and the program that they are talking about. The program takes something that we care a lot about, which is prejudice based hate based on prejudice and involves their political agenda of quashing anti-Israeli sentiment. So one of the things that concerns me is their practice of encouraging students to report and surveil on their teachers and their peers. It's kind of reminiscent honestly of China under Mao in the 1930s Germany and I'm worried that bringing that type of surveillance into the school will threaten what Clayton promotes in terms of free speech and conversation. The National Educators Association this summer voted to distance themselves from the ATL and sever current and future ties and that is the biggest teachers union in the country and I think that speaks volumes to the fact that educators across the nation understand this organization is not what it claims to be. So I really encourage you all to look into these things in addition to their commitment to police training before continuing to partner with them in our district. Thank you.

So I really encourage you all to look into these things in addition to their commitment to police training before continuing to partner with them in our district. Thank you. Thank you. Jess. Hello everyone. I'm in CHS alum and I wanted to talk about how my education at CHS earned me a full ride merit based scholarship to college where I had the privilege of studying human rights. Education around anti-Semitism was a major part of this curriculum. One of our core classes was a Holocaust education trip to Poland where we spent two weeks visiting and paying our respects at 13 of Nazi occupied Poland's most notorious killing fields and concentration camps. Because of this, because of the many hard conversations that I had as a student about how our history impacts our present, I want our students to be able to dialogue about these same hard questions in their educational spaces. And because I know that if we do not learn history we are doomed to repeat it, I want to share with you some history about the ATL. In August 2017 following the white supremacist rallies in the city of New York, the ATL was a prime for law enforcement advising cops to film and plan undercover agents among anti- racist protesters in order to use surveillance footage to prosecute them. The ATL's actions in Charlottesville are part of a long history of surveillance.