Update 2: So I have seen a message from President Liza Rankin on why she, Director Evan Briggs, and Director Michelle Sarju backed out of this meeting. In a nutshell: - She says there was no organization to the meeting which is just not true. They had a moderator lined up and naturally the board members could have set parameters for what to discuss, length of meeting, etc. All that was fleshed out. - She also claimed that if the meeting was PTA sponsored, they needed to have liability insurance to use the school space. Hello? PTAs use school space all the time and know they have to have this insurance. - She seems to be worried about the Open Public Meetings law. Look, if she has a meeting in a school building on a non-personnel topic, it should be an open meeting. It appears that Rankin is trying, over and over, to narrow the window of access that parents have to Board members. She even says in her message - "...with decisions made in public." Hmmm - She also says that th
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I'm not sure why a school would need to ban them.
The post made me laugh a little though. Somehow, I find the thought of "urgent" and "silly bandz" together in the same sentence kind of funny!
SLP
WV says "maluries" Silly Bandz are bad lures!
She thinks they are very stupid - but accepted it as I believe it is a "social thing" right now.
No ban that I know of at the middle school level.
1st grade mom who couldn't get my Google log-in to work
Yes, the problem is that they play and fuss with them (sometimes they snap off and fly across the room). They also trade them, and any of that kind of trading in school always has potential for problems. Anyone else remember the "Economics of Recess" episode of Recess (Monster Stickers become currency for trading).
The next new thing is formal wear.