Updates: from The Seattle Times , it appears that Franklin High School was also closed yesterday due to COVID and staffing issues. As well, Also on Monday, Lake Washington High School in Kirkland shifted back to remote learning temporarily, according to a statement on the school’s website . The shift was due to COVID-related staffing shortages, other illnesses, and absences. On Monday and Tuesday, Lake Washington students will be learning independently from home (asynchronous learning) while staff plan to make the switch to live online learning with a teacher (synchronous learning). On Jan. 19, students will return to in-person learning. Last week, state schools superintendent Chris Reykdal warned that some local school districts may need to close temporarily over the next three to four weeks. While state-mandated preventive measures make schools among the safer public spaces, a lack of staff may force a district or individual school building to shut down, he said. And here's the
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Question: What is the price tag and where is the money coming from?
Jane Adams K-8. Not one word in the update about Spectrum and when you look at the list of needed items, cirriculum mainly you see NOTHING inovative. Generic and boring if you ask me.
The Hamilton update seems to be the most thoughtful, of the three I looked at anyway.
I agree- why exactly is putting money into this, worth closing a well established school community?
Additionally- I see that while families are looking elsewhere in the district- the reason many of them were at Summit was because that program was not available elsewhere in public school.
Closing the school, is not going to make other programs more attractive to those families.
Its unfortunate- but as a former private school parent, I can understand completely.
Only one chance for your child to get a K-12 education.
I hope I will get some answers at the open house this Thursday, but honestly, I'm just not that optimistic.
I will post here after the open house and give an update.
As for the middle school it looks like they have allotted 10 classrooms for the entire middle school. Does this mean that the middle school will be smaller than the elementary IE the chimney VS mushroom model?
If you do the math it appears that there will be about 28 classrooms allotted for k-6 and only 10 classrooms for grades 6-8 (there might be some factors in that I'm not considering such as special ed, or others)
Also I noticed that they propose using the EDM for 6th grade math, instead of CMP2? Does anyone know why they would use the elementary math model for 6th grade instead of moving into cmp2 like other middle schools?