Community Meetings
I am looking for a little help. I can't be at all the community workshops on the SAP boundaries (my Superwoman cape is at the drycleaners). I am going to try to get to one workshop in every region but you know about the best laid plans. Usually the district allows other information to be given out during public meetings. (At the Board meetings, they have a separate table. I'll have to see if they have that for the community meetings.) If not, I can hand out information directly to parents.
I wanted to have half-sheet flyers about this blog to give out so that parents have someplace to go to ask questions and give ideas. I'm sure some schools or regions may have their own Yahoo groups but this blog is good because of the city-wide coverage. I'd like that circle to get bigger.
If you live in the SE/SW/West Seattle and are going to the community workshops, would you be willing to hand them out? I would send you the sheet to print out (as I said it is a half-sheet and since I don't know how many people will show up to these things, 15-20 copies would probably be good) and then take to the meeting(s) you attend.
If you are someone willing and able to do this, please contact me at
melrhs@hotmail.com
Thanks. Let's try to get more parents in on this conversation.
I wanted to have half-sheet flyers about this blog to give out so that parents have someplace to go to ask questions and give ideas. I'm sure some schools or regions may have their own Yahoo groups but this blog is good because of the city-wide coverage. I'd like that circle to get bigger.
If you live in the SE/SW/West Seattle and are going to the community workshops, would you be willing to hand them out? I would send you the sheet to print out (as I said it is a half-sheet and since I don't know how many people will show up to these things, 15-20 copies would probably be good) and then take to the meeting(s) you attend.
If you are someone willing and able to do this, please contact me at
melrhs@hotmail.com
Thanks. Let's try to get more parents in on this conversation.
Comments
Though I've already seen some flack about it being "northend whiners." I did try to correct that opinion.
Good idea, Emeraldkity. Is that you in the picture?
And why is a fully Montessori School (Old Hay) being offered up as alt program when the other schools' Montessori programs are being served up as a standard enrollment possibility?
PS: I've never done the WV thing before, but this is too funny:
"weaddle." ... When it comes to SPS programming, "In Seattle, weaddled!"
I don't see how the District can auto-assign anyone to a Montessori program without a request. But, to be honest, I have no clue what their intent is here. I do, however, believe it should function as an "option" school and have a larger geographic draw than the traditional program at the three schools aforementioned.
But a potentially useful tool put together by a former and future SPS parent. Check enrollment, test data, choice ranking, % returning students... all in one click.
http://ssthing.org/
I have been trying to get the word out about school changes & other info , but many are having a hard enough time dealing with day to day life ( and even though the district seems to want to make that harder), and I am afraid that the voices we most need to hear are feeling overwhelmed.
http://ssthing.org/
Note:
school size and certified FTE employees, FRL
Montlake 237 students; 20 FTE; 8.4% FRL
McGilvra 250 students; 23 FTE; 7.6% FRL
Madrona 411 students 26 FTE; 70.8% FRL
Leschi 274 students; 17 FTE; 70.4% FRL
to spend its resources in areas where education/learning/test scores are not challenged by socio-economic factors...
Basically - give rich communities who test well and show us up well more resources and let the poor communities who dont test well (and will probably never test well because societal conditions are not changing, in fact they are worsening) sink or swim, giving them only the bare basic resources we can get by with providing....
No one would really think like that, would they? Especially if they were shouting an "Excellence for All" marketing tagline from the roof tops all around the city???
Nuh, of course they wouldnt...
Now, if only we could have charter schools in this state, to deal with these difficult populations... they could take them on and SPS could bask in the reflected glory of all those good, clean, well dressed, well fed, well behaved, well performing kids in its schools - you know, the ones who really value an education...
I think the comment that Beacon Hill became an international school to serve the community rather than to provide more access to immersion programs hilarious. Is that why JSIS was started out north?
Why don't we have Tagalog, Amharic, Oromo, Somali & Vietnamese language immersion programs in the south end then?
I'd be very curious to see statistics about "heritage" speaker participation at Beacon Hill. All of the folks I know who have kids there or are clamoring to get in are native English speakers.
and I so wish the comfortable middle classers here (of which societal stratum I used to be a member) would stop going on about people who dont care about/value education for their children and really take a moment to think about what being eligible for FRL means on a daily basis...
OK, I don't usually do the WV thing, but... suxicate!?! Is that what we're trying to do with the new math curiculum?