The evening of 2026-05-26 was a meeting of the Honeoye Falls-Lima Board of Education (BoE).
While I didn’t hear last weeks election results explicitly mentioned, the minutes did include them. Yes, budget passed.
Annual Public Hearing for the Code of Conduct was tonight. Overall, it felt more like tweaking then significant changes. There was talk around the proposed changes to run around sheets for athletes failing classes. In particular, how the new ‘adequate progress’ measure had too much ambiguity. While the Board didn’t sound opposed to the change, they did want it adequately defined.
There was also talk about creating student friendly versions of the Code of Conduct. Fair enough, for the younger grades. But if you need a special version for high school students? You have either failed at writing clear code. Or failed somewhere in the education process. Neither of which is good.
As an aside, I was not aware ‘elopement‘ also means skipping school. At least in the context here. The only definition I was aware of involved marriage. You learn something every day.
There was a Public Comment that, reading between the lines, accused the school of being racist. Not that I know anymore about the situation then was said. And what was said didn’t name anyone, just talked around a situation that had occurred. From that it sounds like a sports coach, was criticized by some, while being supported by others. That ‘of color’ was mentioned multiples times tells me that, at least from the commenters viewpoint, race matters here. It was an interesting comment to hear, and I would like to know more on the situation that led to it. But, again, the only things I know is what was said tonight.
As an aside, the commenter took longer then the allotted time. But the board told her to finish her prepared speech anyways. Which I think is the way to do it. Have timers, for when there is a crowd. But don’t enforce them when there are few speakers. Especially when it’s clear from tone that there is only a sentence or two left.
There was a review of the Social Studies Program. Only thing that really stood out to me on this was the mention of geography awareness. Which reminded me of some of the stories I hear where people hold strong opinions on particular world events. Yet cannot find the location(s) involved on a map. Which would seem like a basic level of data needed to form well reasoned opinions. After all, can’t think critically if you don’t even know what you are thinking about. Mind you, those stories aren’t about HFL. Hopefully everyone here knows where the places are they have opinions about. And that focusing on this leads to fewer people shouting their opinions on places they couldn’t find. Eventually…
And the Board discussed next years President/Vice President. While there are still details to iron out, it looks like Lynley wants the President job. But what I found interesting was how about half the group said they would be willing to fill a role. While the other half gave a hard no. I understand life happens, we can’t do everything we would like. But I would have liked it if more of the group was willing. Still, half does give them a decent number of options.
And those are my Observations From Audience Land for the May 26, 2026 meeting of the Honeoye Falls-Lima Board of Education.
Agenda’s and similar information can be found at HFL’s BoardDocs page. While a recording is also available.