thank you for coming out -- >> and ms. allen who is an amazing science teacher. >> all of you, thank you for coming. i see your principal is back there. what's up, y'all. you got to teach tomorrow. you're going to stick around? you're welcome to stay. hope to have you back at future meetings. it's tons of fun as you can see. i had a couple of questions about -- i only have a couple about the redesign work. and i'm sure you all thought about this already, but it's not included in the presentation. but it's really around what's happening around summer school and in the summer for students. what is our -- do we have summer learning loss and how it affects middle school students? >> i don't think we have the kind of data we need to inform what we would need in the summer. there are very few options for the middle grade students. there is a geometry class that we would offer. >> i hear a lot of conversations around elementary school students and around efforts towards literacy and our high school conversation is around credit recover

ms. hutchinson: there are no bumpers are guardrails. mr. allen: there are no bumpers, it is called freedom. and people need to realize that just because it is in the newspaper on the internet doesn't necessarily mean it is true. you need to trust, but verify. mr. cantor: and we are about to see this go to the next stage, when you got video that is going to be, you know, put together, and these fake videos that are going to go in. and if you think it is difficult to them -- it is difficult to convince people what they are reading about aoc is not true, imagine the difficulty in telling somebody that what they saw is not true. we are going to get to a point, i believe, system of accountability. mr. grove: there is a cautionary note in here about reform. in the bipartisan campaign reform act of 2001, passed in 2002, john mccain and his colleague, a democrat from wisconsin enshrined a provision that said, if you put an ad on the internet, if you pay for advertising on the internet, you are not required to have a disclaimer. disclaimers on the interne

ms. hofmeister: this is very true. we actually know that in oklahoma we are looking to teachers often to be kinship beingent family for those placed in foster care. rep. allen: are there limits to what a teacher can share with the student in oklahoma? ms. hofmeister: certainly there would be some limits, i suppose, that would -- i'm not sure exactly how to answer that. i would say that we just want our teachers to feel supported so they can support our students. having more of our student counselors is beyond the service to students. it is to coach teachers to provide the kind of training that many of us at the table are talking about now, perhaps. in the classroom setting, classroom management is what we call this, when you are building that. rep. allen: are you able to talk about the family and the importance of the family unit, the design of the family, and those sorts of things? are teachers allowed to do that? ms. hofmeister: in public school we support families. that is paramount. our agency of the state department of oklahoma recognizing that family engagement is key to success for families.we are making that a priority and focus. rep. allen: when th

ms. hoffmeister for five minutes please. >>> good morning, thank you chairman, ranking member allen and members of the committee, my name is joy hoffmeister. i was elected state superintendent of public instruction in 2014 by the good people of oklahoma and reelected in 2018. thank you for the opportunity to appear before you to discuss the effects of childhood trauma on student academic performance and the social emotional growth of art school children. oklahoma has made tremendous strides in various fronts in public education. academic standards, national comparability, accountability and more. but these improvements cannot remedy every challenge. there are of course the stark realities of poverty, childhood hunger, domestic strife and more. the world outside the classroom has an undeniable impact on the world inside the classroom. a recent national survey of children's health reports that oklahoma's youngest children suffer more trauma than those in any other state. according to the in ee a casey foundation oklahoma ranks 42nd in the nation in child well- being. 75% of our students suffer moderate or serious depression,