Brag
Staff Relationships & Community feeling-very tight knit(3)
Primary Security
Salary Schedule has become competitive to other districts(5)
Physical/Behavioral Issues are dealt with(3)
Alternative Education Settings(9)
Cell Phone ban is awesome(9)
Facility Improvements-bathrooms are nice at the Primary
Happy Teacher
Health Insurance
Good compared to other districts(3)
Caring Staff(4)
Band (5)
Opportunities available (1)
Choir (2)
Forward thinking outside of box thinking
Large, beautiful facilities (5)
Good layout: fields, track, auditorium
WIAA tournaments
Gym from UW Campus - Good! (1)
great RCHS math teacher
RCHS Band (great band)
PARTNER school - life changing (2)
Graduated a year early
RC is County Seat - schools will consolidate here?
Community very supportive of school (4)
Music Program-Band(3)
Partner School(7)
Facilities(8)
Growing Opportunities-3rd grade swimming(8)
Gifted/Talented Program (8)
Other Opportunities-extracurricular for 6th graders(8)
Iron Hive Numbers(8)
Experienced bases teachers & great teachers(8)
CRO(8)
No phones(8)
STING Program
Theater Presentations(2)
Special Programs that include community(2)
Community Resource Officer(3)
Facilities(2)
Unique Programs to meet student needs(2)
Marketing in district
Limiting Cell phones(2)
Openness to new ideas(2)
Special needs not isolated(2)
District Communication-social media,radio(5)
Primary & Intermediate office(3)
Our Band
Music Program (7)
Great teachers (5)
Our music program/band
Athletics and booster club!!
safety/resource officer
Pride in our district
Diverse school district-child centered
Staff go above and beyond
Beautiful location/nice facilities
“One Hive” mindset
Cohesive mascot
Technology
Advance placement and youth apprenticeship opportunities
The chater school
No cell phone policy
Teaching cursive
Snack packs for back packs
Administration is great (7)
Community is supportive of school/athletics (7)
Collaboration with city and county (7)
moderness/how clean it is (6)
Involvement in activities (6)
Each student having someone to talk to (teachers)
Students are great - they want to do well (7)
Facility improvements (future) (7)
Upkeep of facilities (2) maintenance (7)
District has bounced back (7)
Student centered (8)
Law enforcement supportive (8)
Social media is positive and far reaching (7)
Open enrollment is improving (7)
curriculum/programs/helps students (7)
Academic scores have improved (7)
Re-structuring has been an improvement (8)
Communication to public (7)
Dedicated Staff/Board (7)
Progression over last 2 years (7)
Partner School (7)
Attendance (7)
Culture (7)
Score cards/test scores (7)
Music program & arts (7)
AP opportunities (7)
Innovation of school programs-learning opportunities (7)
Music Programs (8)
Amazing people/coworkers (3)
Work Culture
Educational Options (2)
Adaptability - seeing needs & responding (3)
Community Involvement w/ students (5)
AP Dual Credit Options (3)
Facility Access
Ancillary Services/Support problem solving
High quality extracurricular facilities
Area we live in!
Security Mindset
Officer/Resource Officer (CRO)
No phones in school (8)
Food options at RCHS
Partner School (4)
Teachers (3)
Community supporting school (4)
Community engagement-students, clubs, events, volunteering (4)
More positive attitude of administration (5)
Communication improved (4)
Can feel the atmosphere in school better-happier (1)
Female wrestlers
Community supports sports (2)
Very proud of fine arts; band, choir, theater (4)
Great school colors; marketing, hornet happening (1)
Kids learning to swim-every child swimmer (4)
Advances placement (3)
Hall of Fame (9)
STING Night
Nice Buildings (9)
Good education (9)
Local custodians (9)
More pride in their work
Better than outsourcing
Engagement/participation from schools/community (9)
School spirit
Alternative school options (9)
Thrive
Partner
iThrive
School within school
Student Involvement (9)
Auditorium (9)
Music Program (9)
Arts
School Resource Officer (9)
Great Staff (1)
Music Program (1)
Modern Facilities (3)
Adaptive/Alt. Ed. (1)
Listening to community/involvement/support (1)
School trips (music, sports, etc) (4)
Opportunities for students (youth apprenticeship) (2)
School Report Card (2)
“District of envy”
Student engagement increase (w/phone ban)
Music program (3)
Beautiful facilities (7)
Keeping kids involved in community (3)
Staff (all) (7)
Teacher compassion (7)
Variety of choices or High School students (clubs,theatre, sports,classes,etc) (5)
Exchange Student Program (4)
Extensions (ithrive,etc) (4)
Excellent Reading Program (7)
Science Curriculum (3)
Safety CRO (5)
Music/Arts (6)
AP Classes (3)
Academics (teacher retention)
Facilities (6)
Teachers/Office (5)
Gifted & Talented (4)
Community (2)
Trip opportunities (2)
Small School (1)
Foreign Exchange
Other school cooperation
Media coverage (2)
Food Pantry (3)
STING
Worry
Adding Campus Facilities (2)
Budget (3)
Declining Enrollment (2)
Decline in enrollment - financial impact
How a decline in enrollment impacts the community - this is a necessary service
Concern about how schools are broken up (for example 4th graders not having more than 1 recess)
Not challenged enough
Cutting the gifted and talented program - it’s been such a benefit
About the well-being and happiness of teachers
Worry that teachers may not be comfortable bringing up concerns
Too much screen time/learn how to spell vs autocorrect/social skills
Food insecurity in the community/opportunities for sports
Bullying
School consolidation around state
Financial stability/sustainability
Community population decline (2)
Student population decline (2)
Financial responsibility ? (5)
Brought #1 bldg @ UW, how much will this cost? (3)
$ on concession stand for 5-6 softball games
Band uniforms since 1963?
$ for Tech Ed?? (3)
Work ethic? Is it still there in our kids ? (3)
Kids not learning life skills (3)
Lack of parenting? Parent participation (7)
Accountability for kids
Put ourselves too far behind with drama
Society not holding kids accountable and no consequences
Lack of consequences or inconsistent consequences
Substance abuse concerns
Behind post-COVID/how to catch up
Screen Time (3)
Adequate Staffing (2)
Retaining Quality Staff (4)
Finding and Retaining Special Education Staff (2)
Perception of Public Schools (5)
School Funding (5)
Finances (3)
Declining Enrollment-demographics (3)
Cutting stuff (3)
Financial Well-being/funding(7)
Loss of credibility ti new prospective families
Sucession planning for board members/leadership-lack of readiness & volunteers(7)
Loss of population
School vouchers(2)
Voucher schools taking funding from public schools
Amount of screen time
Prepared for AI
Too much importance on testing(8)
Soft Skills-showing up for work
Leaving phone behind(8)
Lack of Grit in kids & parents(8)
Teaching to the test-not the job market(8)
worry about the quiet,shy,insecure,messed up homelife(8)
Lack of emphasis on trades
Critical thinking skills(2)
Hands on Learning/problem solving
Substitute problems-other districts pay more
Student behavior issues with lack of support from home
Staff mental health
Student mental health
Lack of good teacher applicants
Lack of willing to do extra-curriculars
Teachers are not as esteemed & repspected as they should be
Social media-negtive-weaponizing
Not enough information for college (like scholarships) (6)
Not enough tutors (6)
Discrimination in some cases (6)
Not enough parenting workships (6)
Resources - staffing financial (4)
Academic gap - low seems lower…
Over reliance on tech
Data concerns
Post-HS prep (4)
Food-plant based options
Intermediate/Primary food options
Nutrition
Student safety (1)
Bullying (2)
Mental health (8)
Threats to environment
Declining Enrollment (9)
Open Enrollments to schools outside the district (9)
Curriculum and values being taught (i.e. morals, acceptance, image) (9)
Curriculum straying from content that would include moral, social opinions and preferences rather than keeping to the core content
Preparing for life beyond graduating (talking about budgets) (3)
School foods (lunches, breakfast)
Artificial Dyes (9)
At primary, they have had beans for a week straight
Worry about cuts and how to fill those spaces (9)
Worry about staff burnout (9)
Worry about a lack of business related decision-making - no grant finding position (9)
Preventative should be prioritized, we are too reactive (5)
Students have a lack of behavior support and its challenging to get SST Identified (7)
Staff being expected to do more than their jobs (wearing too many hats & too many committees)
Staff morale due to dress code (too strict on staff & lenient on students)
Stop sign exiting school (no one stops (3)
Low state funding (5)
Maintenance of building (2)
Declining enrollment-birth rate-people out of community (5)
Schools making hard decisions, decreased funding, enrollment
Maintaining administration (2)
Taxes going up-how do community members maintain their homes, population largely older adults (5)
Schools need to add programs to continue making market so family enroll (schools trying to out-do themselves to attract families) - open enrollment (4)
Mental health of students (4)
Housing (5)
Maintaining quality teachers (9)
Referendums (9)
Keeping standards high (9)
Facility budgets (9)
Open enrollments (9)
General enrollment
Losing class offerings/electives (9)
AP credits transferring (9)
No testing support
ASPHAB Testing (9)
Military testing
Too much reliance on technology (9)
Students not taught now to study
Research not on computer
Putting pen to paper
Not handwriting
Cursive (9)
Keyboarding Skills (9)
Handwriting (9)
Handing them computers but not teaching them to use them (9)
Operating system
Email
AI (9)
Bullying w/images
Students accountable for actions (9)
Consistent punishment
Parental support for students (9)
Active shooter procedures (9)
Demographics, keeping young people here/aging population (4)
Financial sustainability (2)
Faculty retention
Lack of student regulation and accountability (2)
Lack of parental involvement and engagement (discipline) (3)
Societal changes challenging traditional education (3)
Declining Enrollment/Funding (6)
Drugs at High School (4)
Food for students in need (7)
Iready being sued/interpretation of results concern (2)
Science program + tech being up to date (5)
Current legislature involving funds (vouchers) (7)
Licensable staff and teachers from other vacations vs usual avenues (7)
That we need a CRO (5)
Town not growing, what opportunities are there after? (7)
Communication/problem skills (7)
Writing skills (7)
Non-english speaking, not enough collaboration (5)
Amount of alternative ed. (2)
Lack of parental guidance (6)
Block Schedule (6)
Too much screen time (7)
Students in hall during class (4)
Teacher: Admin balance (5)
Gifted & Talented Loss (6)
Wonder
Safety - school shootings (6)
Ice coming in without permission (6)
Can we adapt without losing identity of community? (2)
How can we bring more people in/back to RC? (3)
Curb Appeal(6)
Community Sharing Skills(4)
Why Hive not Nest?
Impact of gambling in next generations
Preparation for life skills(4)
Support for Parents(4)
How can we send every kid to college or tech school, also business incubator program(8)
I wonder what a fully classroom/teacher would look like(8)
An aide in every class(8)
Doing enough for school safety(5)
Is the community creating jobs to retain students(4)
How are we reaching our international population? (4)
What would happen to education with budget cuts or staffing changes? (3)
Why can’t we use online/virtual days for cancellations (3)
Will there be legislative (push local community to engage) changes to support rural schools? (3)
How to account for home schooled/how do you fix that?
How many students to pay to run PARTNER?
Could students working in PARTNER reintegrate back into bldg?
What to do about students who do not want to go to collage but rather into trades?
SWT get into career classes early? Get started on college early?
Why sports/clubs have to fundraise?... why not covered by school? - why
Why state money goes to innercity instead of rural?
Why no adaptive sports in RC?
Teams
Why no money to run skills USA, FFA, etc
Why fundraising?
Why not baic acct, cooking, home ec, life skills not taught anymore? - why not mandatory? Change oil? (3)
Curriculum - keeping up to date ie: technology (4)
Are teachers keeping expectations high in academics (4)
Is behavior ex bully, self control being addressed (4)
What are things RC can do to increase pop - attract businesses (4)
How can we interest students to remain or return to RC (4)
Is the school encouraging technical school, trades (2)
Are students too busy (1)
Do students have tie to do homework, reading, volunteer (2)
Does school - LGBTQIA - support
Are students spending too much time on screens playing games
Parent taking responsibility for their kdis
Why do St Marys kids, out perform RC Kids?
Do we have enough leverage in state to change some of teh ways money is spent?
Where did money for out of state field trips come from?
Young families-perception of district
Enrollment
4K wasn’t full-time
Identifies & recruits volunteers
Better volunteer involvement
How facilitate (old-young) in district mentorship
Other funding sources to tap into-grants, foundations, etc
How to create more student leaders
How can we keep open enrollment growing?
How can we harness & advertise our internal strengths?
How can we attract more non-traditional students?
Can we provide daycare?
Can we attract, support, & retain hispanic students (MLL Language Learners)
Consistency of staff & administration
Parents are not so involved and how district can improve it (7)
How can schools & community partner to feed students and support education (7)
Why there isn’t more collaborative communication (7)
School & parents w/ issues
What job market/economy will be in future to keep students (7)
Why cannot sports & choir cannot use the nicer facilities and auditorium at all education levels? (6)
Why don't we have a late bus? (2)
Why don’t we have a bus barn? (1)
How will we retain quality teachers? (7)
How will we keep kids here vs. homeschool or voucher? (7)
How will we better provide teachers w/ special needs services? (7)
Sway away from amount of screen time learning (1)
Would there be support to reduce screen time (2)
Academics versus sports? More emphasis learning (1)
More participation extra-cir. (1)
Every child involved in something (1)
How demographic in community changes direction of district or learning (1)
Can we maintain 4 buildings? (1)
About symons rec partnership
Another bus or 2 more field trips
Lack of use of facilities/outdoors versus cost
track/fields use to public?
When will the leaks be fixed? (Even the new roof leaks) (9)
When will we get new baseball fields/dugouts? The dugouts aren’t wheelchair friendly technically) (9)
When will we allow businesses to advertise on school premises for sports? (10)
How we will support talented & gifted students (10)
When will be collaborate with county resources to support student well-being (HHS, Richland Foundation) (6)
When will food service be managed in more professional and transparent and experienced way? (9)
If we will get rid of I-ready soon
I wonder what student test scores would look like if we decrease screen time (9)
I wonder when we will have a staff childcare option (9)
When RCHS will have a proper tech class/program
What will come of this event? Will action be taken?
What will enrollment be like?
Will districts need to be consolidated?
Will the arts program still be around? Gifted & talented?
How will they manage budget cuts? Quite adding admin.
How does the 2 principals piece work?
What happens (how will kids react) if we do away w/ blocked schedule?
How will AI/Chatgbt impact our kids?
Will the good/positive path our district is currently on continue?
Can we take the politics out? We are all on the same team.
Losing communication skills due to technology (9)
Better communication (9)
Sports culture (9)
Football vs. soccer
Positivity across all
Sports life balance
Two-a-days during school year
Club teams at young age or lack of playing in high school
Lack of consistency between sports
Focus on players not team building
How much is spent w/ firms to push referendums and/or HIVE MIND similar events (9)
At what point will more local schools consolidate together (9)
Substitutes w/ no education background (9)
Why don't we hire local vendors (9)
Why are we playing on community fields not the district fields (9)
Maintaining our own staff
When are kids allowed to be kids? (4)
How club sports are affecting regular sports/school? (3)
Enough writing (6)
How are we teaching for future job skills? (7)
Bet
If the high school taught more things about cultures, maybe there would be less discrimination and bullying (6)
Vouchers will not continue(4)
Sports will stay strong(4)
Tonight will make a big difference(8)
Longevity-not closing(2)
Enrollment goes up the next 5 years(2)
Athletics and music always supported(2)
Creative programming involving outdoors
Home values go up
Unified campus(all grades)
Change
More technology integrated
Scores will go up
Trade schools vs college universities
Technology will allow more people to live in small towns
Community involvement with problems & solutions(8)
I bet if we make our school facilities the most state of art and we blast our our club opportunities the best in a radius, we would attract people/businesses to our town.
Location - when consolidation occurs we will still have school because we’re the county seat
Nothing will change (2)
Not enough in admin/school board willing to make changes. Too nice - not business-y enough (takes too much time and effort. Gov’t moves too slow
I bet on the teachers they teach because they love it (2)
We could make improvements and attract more students (especially in trades, business, etc)
Betting on next generation changing and getting back to the old ways 90’s)
Consolidation will occur across the state. OR merger - not partnership
I bet this admin and school board will turn this school around and get back OEO students and more. OEI students and have great success.
Music will stay strong(6)
Richland Center & school will be the same size(5)
Richland Center will grow with addition of housing and school(5)
We will do this process again(6)
Uphill battle for funding (5)
Future consolidation (2)
Report card will continue to improve (3)
This activity will spark community engagement (6)
School will be here (4)
Big changes coming (2)
Less reliance on technology (3)
More socialization (3)
More emphasis on citizenship (5)
The district will have financial crisis
We will hear of students doing amazing things
Enrollment will be smaller (2)
People that DID NOT participate in this event will be the loudest
We’ll continue to have financial challenges affecting high quality we have today
Merging of districts to RSD
Cost of transportation in fall HIGH
District will survive for many years (4)
Extracurriculars always important (WRCO promotes) (3)
Bussing will always be essential (3)
Willingness to sustain facilities (2)
Hive Mind will connect the community and the district (4)
Population going down (5)
Population getting older (6)
Schools will det smaller (2)
Richland Community will rally around school (3)
People take retirement & move to different community (2)
City & County will work together to improve housing & jobs (2)
Climate change will get people to move here
Growth in our athletics
Youth programs are getting stronger (athletics)
Charter schools and alternative schools continue to grow
With community support, our school can excel
Continue to have options to help support kids interested in trades
Community/parent want to see the district succeed
Things will be way different in 5 years
District needing another referendum (9)
Declining enrollment (6)
Increasing enrollment (2)
Housing
Employment
Economic development
6th grade leadership will continue and make positive change (9)
Next 10 years we will have state football championship (6)
Athletics will go into the stone age (no business sponsorship) (9)
Open enrollment out will go down (9)
Open enrollment in will increase
Math scores (origo) will increase (4)
Communication to community will continue to better (3)
Technology will go away - test scores up (9)
Daycare will need to be developed in district (9)
Majority of Val. & Sol. are from private
I bet volunteers are not many parents
We will have strong community engagement (3)
Open enroll will increase (1)
Our music program will excel
