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Principal reports staff-targeting on TikTok, behavioral referrals and new grants to Ogilvie district
Summary
Principal Sue Davis told the Ogilvie Public School District board some staff have been targeted in TikTok posts, reported behavioral-referral counts (16 elementary, 47 high school), and announced grants including $4,900 for snowshoeing equipment and a $1,000 SHIP award.
Principal Sue Davis briefed the board on student and staff issues and several newly awarded grants.
Davis said staff have been targeted on TikTok, sometimes with staff photos taken from the district website and with comments she described as upsetting; she noted TikTok has not reliably removed such posts when accounts appear to belong to underage users. Davis told the board the district’s phone policy keeps phones out of classrooms during school hours, but many posts appear to be made outside school hours or use publicly posted staff images.
Davis also reported behavioral-referral totals: 16 referrals in the elementary school (about one per day) and 47 in the high school (about three to four per day), with most referrals described as minor documentation entries; the district reported one out-of-school suspension during the period covered.
On programming and grants, Davis said the district received a $4,900 No Child Left Inside grant from the DNR to purchase snowshoeing equipment (spending can occur after July 1), a $1,000 SHIP (Statewide Health Improvement Partnership) grant for PE equipment, and an underserved-populations grant from the Minnesota FFA Foundation providing a minimum of $492.50 to help students attend the state convention (with the potential of an additional $100–$400). The district also raised $1,386 from a spring fundraiser to support elementary field trips.
Davis cautioned about using artificial-intelligence tools in special-education work, saying AI ‘‘makes a best guess’’ and can reproduce false information; she recommended staff treat AI outputs as general guidance and verify results before applying them to student IEPs.
