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Welcome to "In the Air, Under the Tent, and Around Baltimore," your daily podcast briefing
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of all the goings-ons, ins and rounds, arts and ideas, Sudbury School.
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So today, for Talk About Tuesday, I have a special feature.
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Parker was on campus today and agreed to an interview.
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So yeah, you can listen to that and hear about what he has to say about his experiences.
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So if you think the interview was great and want to hear more interviews, let me know.
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Maybe volunteer yourself.
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So yeah, I hope to be able to do more, but I appreciate at least doing this one.
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I think it's worth a good listen to.
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Anyway, today we had a rather lengthy JC and then a lengthy school meeting, and I really
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appreciate everyone who sat through it all.
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Our teams are, you know, people are really dedicated.
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It was a bit of a trying experience.
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We had a recycling truck go by, we had helicopters, we had ambulances, we had motorcycles, we
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had dogs, and various other noises.
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So you know, being out here in the tent, it's beautiful weather, it's wonderful, but it
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can certainly be a difficult sound experience.
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Although really the weather is gorgeous today, just gorgeous.
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Had a number of people playing in the Gaga Pit earlier in the day, a long game of Frisbee
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going on for a while, lots of action on the swings, there was some kind of water sports
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going on, like water gun stuff going on at one point.
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Yeah, so a lot of that cool activity.
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Oh, let's see, yeah, school meeting was pretty thick with stuff, so it's kind of hard to
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summarize everything.
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We had a couple of JC referrals, changed the JC non-attendance rule to basically allow JC
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to finish a case if someone leaves, or decided a couple other routes to doing it, tabling
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it or sending it to school meeting.
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But the idea is, you know, we want to be able to finish cases if someone does not want to
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be there.
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Let's see, some other things, we changed the name of the rule of stalking to no unwanted
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following, I personally did not like the term stalking, and thought it was far too harsh
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for what happens here, it's just people following each other around, and so yeah.
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Also changed our portable electronic devices rule to headphones, because that's what everybody
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calls it, basically you have to wear headphones.
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Let's see, we also, school meeting approved, changing the minimum salary for a staff member
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to $40,000, it was $30,000 before, when I started it was $25,000.
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So anyone who was not at that minimum already is now that, and then we're freezing the rest
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of the salaries to not bust the budget for next year.
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There's also, we'll be having our assembly budget meeting on a week from Sunday, so that's
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good.
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Let's see, then we have a new rule for the VR equipment, it has 22 little sub rules,
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so if you're interested in that, make sure to read that up.
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Increase the budget for the VR corporation, so they could actually have some games, they
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have the headset, and then a few other things, we've replaced, well basically changed the
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name of the nail corporation to the cosmetology corporation, that's exciting.
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We have a new COVID rule of school meeting members cannot be within six feet of a doorway
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without their mask on.
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This is basically to deal with people eating outside of the door and people not wanting
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to walk basically through that.
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Now that we have the tent, they can eat under the tent.
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And we had some approvals for people to use our field, and yeah, that's pretty much it.
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So yeah, that was good.
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So that was kind of the day, it's kind of a full day.
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Since I am the gavel clerk and there's no JC and school meeting clerk, because I guess
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this year is too weird to have people wanting to do this, it's really challenging actually.
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I was doing JC and school meetings, so that was like two and a half hours of running meetings
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and we had some technical problems.
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Phil is out again today who usually runs all the technical stuff for the school meeting.
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Hopefully next week will be better.
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So anyway, as I said, Talk About Tuesday is featuring Parker, so check that out.
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Have a great rest of your day and I will see you when I see you.