[Paul Ruseau]: Okay. We have to end on time, whether I just cut somebody off in the middle of a sentence and click the exit button because the cable folks have told us that this channel they're using to display this meeting has to switch over to. I'm assuming a city council meeting I can't remember what it was. But I think we can manage. people keep joining, but I guess I'll get us going. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here. Can you hear me all okay? Yes. You all hear me okay. Excellent. So I'm going to call to order once I find something to write on. So anyway, so this is the Medford School Committee Subcommittee on Rules and Policy for November 16th. 4 p.m., and I'll just call the roll. Member Graham?
[Unidentified]: Here. And Member McLaughlin? Here.
[Paul Ruseau]: And Member Verso? Here. Three present. Thank you all for coming. It's an exciting topic. I'm not going to share, well, I'll just go through the things that were, why we're meeting. I guess I should be the rest of the posting. It's been a while. Please be advised that on November 16, from 4 to 5.30, there will be a Rules and Policy Subcommittee meeting held for remote participation via Zoom. The meeting can be viewed through Medford Community Media on Comcast channel 15 and Verizon channel 45 at 4pm. Since the meeting will be held remotely, participants can log in or call by using the following link or call in number. The Zoom link is HTTPS And if you wish to call in, you call 1301-715-8592. the meeting ID is 95409931345. Additionally, if you wish to submit any comments or have questions during the meeting that you don't want to speak about, you can email them to me and hopefully, I guess I should open my email in case that happens. My email address is prusdau.medford.k12.ma.us. please include your first and last name, your Medford Street address, or if you're an employee indicate that, your question and or comment. So our agenda for tonight is From a May 16th meeting, school committee approved that the rules and policy subcommittee will review the wellness policy, which is policy ID ADF for K-8 students, be sent to the rules and policy subcommittee for revision, and that it be revised as necessary to ensure unrestricted free play recess is available to all K-8 children daily as part of their social and emotional wellbeing. The curtailing of unrestricted free play Recess shall be tracked. This information shall be returned to the school committee twice each year and be disambiguated by grade, school grade, gender, race, disability, and socioeconomic status. The subcommittee shall invite at least one teacher and administrator from grades K to five and also from six to eight, as well as the director of student services or her designee to ensure their voices are considered. The current policy and recommended revised policy will be returned to the the full school committee, no later than the first meeting in November, which has gone by. So I spoke to, I can't remember, since this is rescheduled, forgive me for not remembering what I was supposed to do. In today's meeting, the goal was to hear from folks that have opinions on recess, whether that is the importance of recess, free what they mean by recess, because not everybody agrees on the definition of recess, and also on the impacts of withholding recess as a form of discipline. And I promised I would not do all the talking. So unless there's any other members that want to say anything before we open the floor.
[Unidentified]: All right, does anybody? want to speak on this important topic that has got sidelined by the pandemic. Somebody has to want to speak.