Prospective Sand Point Parents (Urgent and Important)

I know someone who is now within the Sand Point boundaries. A group of these parents has organized and has a survey for parents who also live in those boundaries. They also have a Sand Point blog as well as a Yahoo group.

Here is a link to the parent survey. It is live until midnight Thursday, December 3rd. Please urge parents you know in that area to participate.

There is also another survey for parents in the newly drawn boundaries for Eckstein.


Here's info from the blog:

"Sand Point Elementary will reopen in the Fall of 2010. We are a group of parents who live in the Sand Point Elementary attendance area. We have been exchanging ideas on the Sand Point Parents Yahoo Group, and we are organizing to ensure that our concerns are communicated. To that purpose we created the "Sand Point Elementary Community Input Survey", which emerged with the help of the McDonald Community Group, and from several in-person gatherings held over the last few weeks.

Please complete the survey before it closes on December 3rd. at midnight.

Because we are mostly interested in the input from the community directly assigned to SPE's attendance area, we encourage you to only answer this survey if you are part of this community.

If you are not within Sand Point Elementary's attendance area, please consider answering the "Survey for Families Living in the New Eckstein Service Area" where you can voice your opinion of what you would like to see in Sand Point Elementary. The results of both surveys will be presented to the public in general and to the School Board Directors Michael DeBell and Harium Martin-Morris on:

Tuesday, December 8th
Center for Spiritual Living, 5801 Sand Point Way NE.

Copies of the results will be sent to all the important stakeholders. "

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