Episode 4: 6th Grader Emi Kim

 Welcome, everyone, to the next episode of Provo City School District's What's Up With The Sup podcast. I am Superintendent Wendy Dau. Thank you for joining me for our fourth episode of our podcast. This week, I am speaking with Emi Kim, a sixth grade student at Westridge Elementary School. Emi has done some extraordinary things over the past couple of years to provide books to our libraries. But first, let me go over our weekly updates. Our next school board meeting will be a study session and a business meeting on Tuesday, September 12th. Study sessions generally begin at 4 o'clock p. m. and are held in Board Room 1 at the district office. Business meetings start at 7 o'clock p. m. and are held in the Professional Development Center at the district office. Both meetings are open to the public. SEP conferences for secondary schools are coming up on September 19th through the 21st. Look for more information from your student's school. We invite everyone to the “Get the Scoop on CTE” event, Monday, September 25th from 5 to 8 p. m. at Provo High School. Learn about CTE pathways and future career opportunities. Plus, you get free ice cream. Who wouldn't want to come to that? If you qualify for free or reduced lunch, remember to send in your application. The deadline is September 28th and this does need to be completed each year. The Foundation's Links for Kids golf tournament will be held on September 28th. If you are interested in participating, please visit foundation.provo.edu. Please continue to check your school's website, calendar, and social media for important information and dates. Please remember to update your information in PowerSchool. This process needs to be done each year, for it allows our schools and the district to contact you with important information and in emergency situations. Weekly videocast will be coming from me every Friday, so stay tuned! Now for our Community Connections segment.  At the end of each podcast, we ask our listeners to submit any questions or topics that they would like us to address on the podcast. Not every question we receive warrants a full podcast episode, but we also want to acknowledge the questions and provide answers. This week's questions come from our listener, Jared. Jared asked me to address dress codes and political activism and flags in our schools. So, thank you for your question, Jared. Let me address the question around dress code, both for students and for employees. Our dress code policy and procedure can be found in District Policy 3224. The dress code policy states that students will be dressed appropriately for school, and it directs the superintendent or their designee to create an actual procedure that's tied to this. So, if you go onto our website under policies, you can see the policy listed under 3224. And there will be a line item that says 3224 P1. That basically stands for procedure one. And in there it lists the requirements for student dress. Basically, students are required to dress appropriately for the setting and activity that will take place. So, for example, you are going to have different dress for a PE class or if you're on a dance team than you would attending a class. But the basic requirements are that undergarments must be covered at all times.  See through or mesh garments must be worn with appropriate coverage underneath. Illegal, threatening, profane, or lewd content will not be allowed. So, for example, images or language that is gang related is not allowed, that includes weapons is not allowed, illicit drugs or alcohol, sexual content, violence, discrimination, or profanity would not be allowed. We really work hard with students. We do not want to shame students for what they wear at school. And so that process will be that an administrator will address it if it is violating any of these procedures and that we will pr