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Designed students can stay at school with the new “New Brevard School” program

Designed students can stay at school with the new “New Brevard School” program

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Brevard's school authority is considering implementing a new program for excluded students instead of sending them to the alternative learning centers.

In Brevard Public Schools, designated means not really shown – at least not in the traditional sense.

The terminology that the district uses to describe the punishment for certain crimes has had a debate between board members and employees since January. Board members ask a clearer language and the question of whether the current disciplinary process works at all.

Students who are shown currently have the opportunity to take part in the duration of their designation to alternative learning centers or learning facilities outside their normal home campus. A designation usually does not mean that a student is completely thrown out of BPS.

During a recently carried out work meeting, the headmaster James Rehmer and alternative websites Director Misty Bland presented the board of directors to replace the alternative learning centers and to revise the handling of the trigger. The step took place after a working session in January, when the board expressed concerns that the ALCs did not help to improve the behavior of the students and heavily burdened the teachers.

Board member Megan Wright said that the District Budd was an excuse for the ALC employee that they give them an “impossible task”.

“I have stimulated a teacher with me, and my heart broke for her because I think:” What we have to do is an impossible task, “said Wright.

The students of the ALCS, said Wright, need more support than those in typical campus due to emotional and behavioral problems, and too many students of different ages are combined in the same space.

“We ask a teacher to look at a class range of the seventh up to 12th grade, which the curriculum is drastically different, and we ask our bus drivers to ensure that we have students in buses that are from kindergarten to 12th grade,” she said. “There are many things that are simply not right. They are not right.”

While the final details are still switched off, the district increased closer to a solution on how the outsourctions in the school year 2025-2026 could be treated.

That's how it could look.

Who is currently visiting the alternative learning centers?

Students who would otherwise be excluded from the Brevard Public Schools have the opportunity to visit the ALCs for the duration of their trigger.

Until February 13th there were 209 students in both centers, according to the data presented by Rehm and Bland at the working session. Of the 209 students, 22 were in kindergarten up to the sixth grade.

The presentation did not include breakdown of the race, although this was part of numerous discipline discussions.

During the school year 2023-2024, a total of 658 students visited the alternative learning centers, as can be seen from a presentation by the school authority in June 2024. The majority-274 or about 41.64%of these students were black. Black students make up about 15% of the total population of the district.

The second largest group of ALCS for this school year were white students, 235 in the centers. There were also two American native, three Asian or Pacific islanders, 70 Hispanic and 74 students from two or more races that were placed in the centers during the 2023-2024 school year.

What problems do board members have with the Alcs?

During a working session in January, the board members expressed concerns that the ALC's teachers overlap and did not work as a discipline method.

“These students are rewarded for bad behavior,” said Wright at the time. “You go to school two days a week, you are not necessarily on the right track with your classes and (when) you back to your traditional classroom environment are the responsibility of the teacher:” Have you done your work? Is everything rated? Are you up to date? “

The ALCs employ 38 people according to the latest presentation. Between the two locations there are 16 teachers and two social workers who monitor 209 students, as well as a school consultant, a consultant, six teaching assistants, two school resource officials, two deputy headmaster and other school staff such as secretaries and administrators.

If the district had been exchanged from the use of the ALCs to the proposed diversion program, he could again assign 31 employees from ALC to other schools, while seven employees in various capacities would work in the detour program.

What would the diversion program look like?

The details of the diversion program – an alternative to the alternative learning centers – are examined. However, the board members agreed that the goal was to keep children on their home campus instead of sending them to another side.

The program would probably include the pupils to use a determination that would require certain things such as their participation in weekly advice. Participation in online course work; No participation in things such as sports, clubs and other campus activities; Monitoring at all times; And a Saturday behavioral change program. You would have entitled to take part in the program in primary school and once during the middle/high school.

It is a similar approach to what the district has used with its drug redirection program. This is an option for students who have rejected substance.

What other options would students give?

The crimes are rated at a level of one to five, five are most serious. While the details of the diversion program are still being decided what it looks like now, the diversion program would be available for students who were shown on one to three levels due to criminal offenses and for some criminal offenses in level four. The district would decide on a case -by -case basis if a criminal offense of level four would lead to an automatic designation, while the crimes of fifth level five mean that a student is excluded.

What does that mean? The district still decides and they are still working on hammering a more precise language in terms of trigger.

Board member Katye Campbell argued that students who were shown for more serious crimes can complete the course work online so that they could complete the final rate and school classes from BPS and the BPS school quotas are not affected, which, according to Rehmer, is currently an option. Wright did not necessarily agree to give children the chance to do online work, but she wanted to determine a “hard line” about what the district awaits in terms of acceptable behavior.

It compared the guidelines of the district with Georgia's guidelines on speed crossing, an analogy that was carried out several times during the working sessions with regard to the discipline of the students last year or something.

“You know where you are not a speed that Georgia is, because Georgia has determined the precedent that if you accelerate, run over and receive a large old ticket in Georgia,” said Wright.

“I want the same precedent for Brevard County Public School to determine that you understand when you carry out these crimes not to tolerate it.”

Finch Walker is today the educational reporter at Florida. Contact Walker at fwalker@floridatoday.com. X: @_finchwalker.

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