ALPTF Recommendations Sent
On Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 6:28pm. Dr. Robert Vaughan sent an email to Dr. Enfield with the recommendations from the Advanced Learning Programs Task Force regarding placement considerations for elementary students in north Seattle attending the Accelerated Progress Program.
Nothing has, as yet, appeared on the District web site about these recommendations. I'm not sure why the recommendations could not have been sent to Dr. Enfield within a day or two of the final task force meeting.
Nevertheless, it's done. Dr. Enfield now has 90 days to implement the recommendations or explain why she hasn't. Except, of course, Dr. Enfield doesn't work for the District any more. She is using her vacation days for the remaining days of her contract.
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Still, a number of questionable things happened on her watch this year, including the Lafayette principal scandal; her decision to leave the two Lowell Elem. principals found guilty of misconduct in charge of their schools, liability and all; the inconsistent and inadequate way the district handled security during the recent at-large gunman emergency; the MAP recalibration fiasco, to name a few.
Heads up, Highline.
does this guy epitomize what is wrong with the downtown bureaucracy of artful dodgers?
I have the sense that most of those who read and comment on this blog have enough sense to realize that life has trade-offs, and that the entire district doesn't revolve around YOUR child. However, parents sure would like some clarity!
What do parents get from these artful dodgers who kick the can down the road by getting everyone to argue about which can we're kicking and where is the can and who gets to kick the can and which road are we on and where do we kick the can ... ?
Are the artful dodger just hand wringers trying to avoid the CONFRONTATION AND ANGER AND NEGATIVITY of ... doing their jobs and making a decision,
or is it so the artful dodger bureaucrats can keep their good paying job for another year or 5?
It sure looks like
ArtfulDodgerWinsAgain
I cannot figure out how the district administrators balance their (presumably) once sincere interest in education with administration politics.
I called Robert Vaughan once with a simple yes or no question and he talked my ear off for an hour about aspects of advanced learning. This made me feel like he has a sincere and profound interest in advanced learners, particularly twice exceptional learners.He also appeared seriously concerned about the cost and efficacy of advanced testing. However, when he/the district removed our Spectrum program midyear he threw up a defensive wall in the face of irate parents at our school. It was hard to know in that situation where his sympathies laid but I kind of felt (and I am speculating) that maybe he is not as interested in Spectrum/ALO and in pushing the general population of high performing but otherwise "normal" kids to their full potential.
That's my impression based on very little data.....