Valley City school board meets, no mention of social media post

VALLEY CITY, N.D. (KVRR) — After an uproar on social media from local residents concerning a post made by Valley City High School teacher, Tyler Thompson, the school board remains silent.

“No recognition and no requests.”
“I did not receive any requests also, so we’ll move forward with our agenda. Is there any changes?”
“No changes in agenda.”

There were no residents or requests made to comment during the meeting. This comes after the social media post that Thompson wrote, which called Charlie Kirk a racist, transphobic, sexist, and more. The post had garnered many residents to call for Thompson’s termination. Yet the school board has said they are still investigating the matter.

During the meeting, the board spoke on the progress of the new grading scale compared to the original. It was noted that this scale will identify which subject areas are needed to be helped with.

“When you have a parent-teacher conference, you come in and see you’re a two. Well, what can I do at home? Instead of well, you’re doing okay. This is authentic. This is both the teacher knows it, the parent knows it, and the student knows it.”

The board also read their second reading of the budget. Noting that it had to be increased due to the estimated enrollment numbers being higher than anticipated, and other costs.

“It’s been hard to track special education because of those high-cost contracts. There is a threshold on that, and so the Sheyenne board felt more comfortable being conservative with that budget. And so we took that number from that twenty five expected cost down to ten percent. And so we would rather be more conservative on the front end of this than be rationing it like we were.”

The board approved the second reading of the budget and tax levy.