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Superintendent: overall student incidents down; bullying reports rise after easier reporting
Summary
Superintendent Susan Nash reported declines in most incident categories year-over-year but noted small increases in bullying reports and some KIS roughhousing/assault incidents; the district cited QR-coded banners for easier electronic bullying reporting and credited SRO presence with reducing bathroom incidents.
Superintendent Susan Nash on March 26 presented a discipline report comparing the 2023–24 and 2024–25 school years, saying most incident categories declined but that bullying reports have risen slightly, likely because the district made reporting easier.
Nash told the board that first-grade through high-school data were broken into 12 incident categories, including physical aggression (with and without injury), cell-phone incidents, class cuts, insubordination, disruptive behavior, roughhousing and assault. She said cell-phone incidents at the high school rose slightly following implementation of a new cell-phone use policy.
To make bullying reports easier, the district placed banners throughout schools that include QR codes directing students to an electronic bullying-report form. Nash said students now sign out electronically for bathroom use so teachers and administrators can monitor time out of class through a platform called the Dashboard; some bathrooms are monitored by SROs and are locked during specific times. "The hiring of SROs is making a difference in lowering student incidents in the bathrooms," Nash said.
The superintendent described the changes as part of an effort to improve reporting and monitoring; the board heard the presentation and had no formal vote on discipline measures during the meeting.
Board members requested ongoing monitoring and review of the Dashboard data and disciplinary trends.
