[Music] and to the [Music] [Music] [Music] for be our coner and PR [Music] education Thursday April 25th 2024 [Music] [Music] United States America the stand na report report suion and DET report and and are many many ctions I would encourage everyone to something for example watch volleyball team than [Music] on ofies ofeducation no this meeting being by having time off loated [Music] [Music] so right now [Music] City and was amazing experience [Music] and today bring work so a lot of kids a lot of pets School instruction to recognize all right uh is this on yes okay all right um hey everybody so anyway so to tell the story of our OverWatch 2 team and our OverWatch 2 season I have to take you back to April 2nd 2022 there a group of relative strangers students primarily freshman and sophomores hopped on to a bus and went to R University to play in the 2022 OverWatch HS uh on that day we played inep hun Central who was the defending Champion but ended up losing a state championship to the Hightech High Laser Cats I don't know if you guys knew this I don't know if anybody knew this but High-Tech high mot is the Las CS that's G what un for but anyway we came so close to Wi state championship with the group of freshman and sophomores um that day and we did not leave that the tournament dejected we left the tournament hope and we left the tournament knowing that if we did a couple things differently that we would have that we have capability of having something TR special so I think it's important to be humble sometimes but I'm not going to be humble ever since that game this team has not lost a game and quite frankly it hasn't been close they worked so hard in between that day and in between the next season to go all the way through and win the state championship and go eat it and have a little bit of issues in our state championship team last year but then knowing that we came close to losing it again in the state championship working just as hard this past year and coming back even better uh to win another straight undefeated season like the closest thing I was trying to think of ways to kind of explain like compare what they have done um and without knowing like explaining how OverWatch works for 25 minutes I really couldn't see that if you're familiar with the 1992 dream team uh who R the Olympics by like an average of like 45 points per game the second that they walked out onto the court and they play for like two minutes like all right well this game's over that's basically every single game that that we had and we were against the other best teams in the state I remember we were playing it was the state semi-finals we were playing against the tech who at that point was also another undef team um actually SE higher than us by from some your percentage point and like we're in the middle of the third game and I hear one of them talking about how they can't stand how much homework that they have to do after this and another one talking about how they to take the over just like so much so much better than all the rest of the competition that it really has been U amazing to watch as for the season um the biggest challenge that we probably had uh Lewis who uh has been one of our best players uh this game requires a lot of teamwork a lot of communication L is also on the bowling team uh and Mr gra bowling coach has been very gracious in like letting us borrow L from time to time but the shifted the schedule up and the bowling playoffs dates and our playoff games R the exact same dates so we did not have le for the majority of but Lily and I'll just basketball is an analogy here imagine if you're a basketball coach and you're sitting there and you find out that your top schooler from the year before isn't going to be on team then you look at your computer and you get an email from somebody saying hey I'm one of the top 5 to 10% basketball players in the I want to join your team that is Antonio right here so so so so lucky to have somebody who can seiously walk into our team uh and quickly assimilate and become a part of it and was willing to work really hard um because again this game is there a lot about team if if there's a we Link in the chain if one person isn't doing their job in the game then the whole chain is GNA fall apart Antonio was ass simulated very easily and he was able to work with the rest of the team uh and the team came in and prepared every game even though they knew that their season has gone really well came in every game practice prepared like that they were going to face some other um so going through this whole process I set up scrimmages we that was another big challenge because there wasn't many teams in the state of New Jersey that we were really able to scrimmage against because it wasn't worth SC we went all over the place we played different colleges and universities we played teams from all over the country I just Googled like OverWatch Champions and insert State here and tried to find other teams that might have helped us build uh and they did very well across all of that um I'm happy to say that the 2024 State Championship uh is actually not the end of the road for the guys um after we won uh and it wasn't as much of a challenge I found a national leag that we entered uh and we're playing teams all up and down the East Coast uh over hundred and something teams that are in this bracket and we will be in the championship of that next week so all from Canada to Florida we've been playing we actually finally had a somewhat challenging game we lost our first uh set and came back to West um so it's been it's been amazing working with honestly like I feel like I feel like I like watched I've been watching a really good movie and like reading a really good book and it's like had a really big impact on Me Myself and I've been watching these guys play and I'm like telling people like this is amazing they're so good and it's like there's just so much because unfortunately it's not like a volleyball game where you go see us question it's something that's happening online but to be able to watch them and be a small part of this has been very very special because I truly believe that they're one of the most dominant teams that this school district has ever seen to go to start off as a team of freshman and sophomores go to the state championship and then have two straights undef seasons and completely dominated in the way that they have has been absolutely amazing um I I hope you guys know like how how great you truly are because it's it's been great watching us and I really appreciate I hope they I hope I hope everybody realizes how special this unfortunately people are graduating we are losing Le Nathan and Brian um so it's not going to be quite the same but we do have three returners Antonio Max and Alex for next year so really looking forward to oh yeah of course of course yeah yeah everybody everybody come up first up is is Max and uh and one of our tpss Antonio sore DPS tank supports I have I'll get the other Bel too spe pleas whereas the Stockwood High School OverWatch 2 team was started in September of 2021 and joined Garden State Sports in the winter of 2021 is 200 schols whereas Sports created comped in OverWatch five on combat game where players can choose from a PO ofz of characters with different skills and abilities whereas this OverWatch two season was the biggest that g State Sports has offered in any title with 67 schools across the state competing in the regular season and whereas the 2024 spfhs OverWatch 2 team was comprised of the following players Nathan Arnold Brian Bartley Nel Des Max Alexander Jones Anton lals on February 24th 2024 the sfhs OverWatch two team swept to bridge in the best of Five series and finished their second straight undefeated season to win the 2024 G State Esports Championship Bel whereas the 2024 spfhs OverWatch teamed outstanding challenged andout and was led by head coach Ray mosc this team received welld deserved recognition from fellow student staff and the SC BWI communities for their outstanding efforts and accomplishments now therefore be it resolved that the Scot BWI Board of Education recognizes and congratulates the 2024 spfhs OverWatch 2 team and their male for their outstanding and wishes them continued success in all future ende [Music] take and not only then taking one step fur cating Talent andion OPP thank you supp stud [Music] well thank you for coming welcome to stay see you thank you [Music] [Music] per [Music] um as those were who were here last [Music] meeting um and maybe on another slide was corrected or something I don't know but it seems weird that Ved and you know the total was off by 100,000 I I would imagine anybody if you were voting on your salary $100,000 less than what it supposed to be that would be something you probably would V understand how we had and it the should postponed so that was fully corrected um put out there 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issues um and she had interviewed over 65 parents and um found out that 75% of those parents um felt responsible for their children's sucess 83% believe that they more responsible to their to their students and their success and they were parents were very conflicted wish children have life they um and um she talked about the fact that a lot of this parent parenting is very intensive and really is a better way what she was talking about is um that um she also children um and um primarily 18 to 20 year old and um she uh 70% of the children their parents valued them more when they were successful and them more than they achieved um and um so they they felt matter and contr that she was talking about besides was mattering was the term that she used um and the need for KS likeu by their parents success [Laughter] G of the quotes from students were I wish my parents I wish my parents to be exceptional and everything those um and basically love their kids un but children don't always know 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get cut off but there's probably about 10 minutes at the end again useful thing like tonight talking about that auth things like that I think kind of a disturbance that people don't get some good information that could be at the end of the meeting so there's some way to look into that that would be great um second thing is since this is the part one of the things that kind cut off talked about um the social justice teature academ again just to reiterate what I said in the last meeting I think it's it's kind of a disservice to um students that may not be interested in social justice that they don't have just a teacher Academy it's a social justice teacher Academy um and the problem with social justice is your social justice is your neighbor's social injustice Nightmare and so you can have two people who have completely different ideas of what social justice is and it just leads the problems and I think we're all seeing this playing out in our universities as we as we speak I thought i' just add this this one anecdote of uh an interview of a student at New York University again they uh they take top 10% in uh in the class uh in the graduating class so this is this is the top notch top tier this the the the interviewer said why are you protesting I don't know I'm pretty sure there's something about Israel turns to another person why are we protesting the other protester says I wish I was more educated protester number one says I'm not either and I again I think we focus we focus get back to focusing on the basics and things like that and tone down that this the social Justice thing I think you you create a problem where you have teachers who then are encouraged by that to become activist and impose their uh social activism on the children it's not uh I don't think it's fair to parents I don't think it's fair to the kids I I think the the teacher should be neutral on things like that and I think I think these types of programs create a problem so um that's basically it 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