Why You Should Care Mr. Crabill has found quite the acolyte in Director Chandra Hampson. In the course of discussions over SOFG, she says his name over and over, "A.J .says we...." Now that's not too surprising given the direction the district is heading and that it is Mr. Crabill's work with the Council of Great City Schools is how we got here. But it appears that Mr. Crabill is working very closely with Hampson and we know she wields some amount of power over the majority of the Board. Mr. Crabill is going to continue to work with the Board as SOFG is instituted in SPS. In fact, his role may become more public as it did at one SPS Board meeting in the spring where he was on the phone during the meeting and suggested the Board stop the meeting to "self-reflect." I also noticed that in a district in South Carolina, when things weren't going to plan, he blamed the Board for not following SOFG to the letter. Look for that to happen here if Board members w
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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?