This may only be a partial list of reasons; please, add anything else in the comments. The deadline to file to run for the Board is May 19th. Entire Board Majority NOT vetting the Superintendent in any way, shape or form. Even the Seattle Times thought that was wrong. It was just absolute hubris and it was wrong. For the second time in just over a year , board members voted to negotiate a superintendent contract during a special meeting with no opportunity for public comment. This time, they showed an even deeper disregard for their responsibilities as public servants: Aborting a national search for a new superintendent and denying Interim Superintendent Brent Jones a chance to show students, parents and taxpayers that, indeed, he is the best person for the job. Government bodies can’t fast-forward through transparent processes just because they think they know the right answer. One other odd thing about the hiring of Brent Jones - most permanent SPS superintendent contracts ar
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Based on my child's stops, it looks like they are not using the community/cluster stops. The ride times are around 30 minutes both ways, which seems very optimistic, unless the routes are small and use smaller buses.
I am looking at the scheduled arrival time 20 minutes before start time (Lowell) and skeptically assuming that they gave themselves 20 minutes to fudge the numbers with. On paper it looks like your kid has a 30 minute ride and arrives with 20 minutes to play and socialize - in reality it will probably work out to a 45 minute ride and 5 minutes to play, or worse.
No community stop. Same stop at last year, except they reversed the route so instead of being the last stop on the route, we are now the first hence the nieghborhood tour.
Makes no sense, but I had no excpectations. Will be driving.
Return trip may actually work out in the afternoons.
Also does anyone know why Marshall is free all day K and Lowell is 190 /mo? Just lip service to make the programs equal?
Lowell will have 2 K classes (50 kids) and needed to do Pay-for-K to fund the second teacher.
The travel time to school is about the same, as far as I can tell, but the return trip is 15 minutes shorter. I can drive my daughter to school and back if I want because of my schedule, but she'll likely take the bus about 2/3 of the time.
Helen Schinske
On a bright note--the folks at transportation were extremely helpful when I called today. They had my son getting picked up on a very dangerous corner (top of a blind hill) and changed it back to his old stop from last year...and even called me back to tell me.
Now if we can just get the same awesome bus driver as last year...
Unfortunately ours will be twice as long! Pick up 1 hour and 10 minutes before school starts. One hour to get home. By car, 20 minute route!
We received our official Transportation Assignment today, one week after school began.
That's not the funny part . . .
They've abandoned the "community stop" approach for Lowell, at least in our neighborhood.
Still not the funny part . . .
The schedule is great! Our daughter would be picked up, a couple of blocks from our house, at 8:44 am and return home, one block away, at 3:54 pm. Even though school gets out so much later this year, they would get her home earlier than last year.
Still not the funny part . . .
Our daughter doesn't go to Lowell anymore.
Now THAT'S what I think is funny.