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Students and community members urge Kingston board to keep counselors and expand prevention resources
Summary
During public comment community speakers praised the district’s cultural and social‑emotional programs and urged the board to maintain counseling staff and provide written prevention resources for families; commenters also asked about community partnerships such as sheriff‑office lock programs.
During the public comment portion of the meeting community members spoke about student supports, safety and the district’s social‑emotional and cultural programming.
Speakers expressed appreciation for efforts to connect attendance, grade‑level supports and graduation outcomes and urged the district to preserve counseling capacity. Commenters said counselors can have outsized impacts on individual students and recommended the district provide clear written resources parents can use for prevention and response; one commenter referenced a sheriff’s office lock program as an example of a community resource that could be publicized.
The presiding officer reminded speakers of the public‑comment rules (three minutes per speaker; a 30‑minute total limit) and noted that state and federal privacy and bargaining laws limit discussion of individual students and employees in that forum.
Next steps: the presiding officer said written statements could be submitted to the clerk and that staff or administrators may follow up; no formal board action on these comments is recorded in the provided segments.
