Update 2: So I have seen a message from President Liza Rankin on why she, Director Evan Briggs, and Director Michelle Sarju backed out of this meeting. In a nutshell: - She says there was no organization to the meeting which is just not true. They had a moderator lined up and naturally the board members could have set parameters for what to discuss, length of meeting, etc. All that was fleshed out. - She also claimed that if the meeting was PTA sponsored, they needed to have liability insurance to use the school space. Hello? PTAs use school space all the time and know they have to have this insurance. - She seems to be worried about the Open Public Meetings law. Look, if she has a meeting in a school building on a non-personnel topic, it should be an open meeting. It appears that Rankin is trying, over and over, to narrow the window of access that parents have to Board members. She even says in her message - "...with decisions made in public." Hmmm - She also says that th
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I wouldn't say I was hard-core pro-gifted. Indeed, I said I think Spectrum could even go away if the right things were in place. I have advocated for ALOs for ALL schools so that parents who want more rigor for their child - testing or no - can have it.
Charlie and I sat there and kept our mouths mostly shut. For months. We were out pushing anything and listened to APP, APP, APP.
It would help if the taskforce had a clear direction.
It would help if we had a real AL director who would champion the program and work to make it coherent, streamlined and as accessible as possible.
Those things didn't happen.