Snow Day Tomorrow as Well
Seattle Schools will be closed tomorrow.
Tuesday, November 23rd
Tuesday, November 23rd
As well, the John Stanford Center is also closed (the better to fend off unpleasant phone calls).
Tuesday Open Thread
The speaker list is up for the Board meeting tomorrow; not as packed as I thought with just four people on the waitlist. The majority of the speakers are speaking on high school boundaries (with several wanting to talk about Ballard High). There are only three of us speaking about the Green Dot resolution asking the City to not grant the zoning departures that Green Dot has requested. It's me, long-time watchdog, Chris Jackins, and the head of the Washington State Charter Schools Association, Patrick D'Amelio. (I knew Mr. D'Amelio when he headed the Alliance for Education and Big Brothers and Big Sisters; he's a stand-up guy.)
Comments
A said: "I find your comment "the better to fend off unpleasant phone calls" offensive. There are hundreds of people who work in that building. People you have never met, who work very hard at their jobs. Much of the city is shut down today. Emergency officials recommend if individuals can avoid traveling today they should. I don't think it is unreasonable or malicious that the John Stanford building is closed."
Lighten up—she was making a joke!
FYI, no Anonymous posts.
No school Wednesday! Snow (job) day!
Inquiring Mind
So can I start more sentences with conjunctions? Yes I can!
Good question about making up the missed days (actually its now 2 full days & one 1/2 day) for MS & HS.
It will be interesting to see how the district accounts for it at the end of the year, to still get to the required 180 days (actually 177 because Seattle has 3 waiver days).
In Shoreline district after their audit which came down hard on their non-instructional time being counted incorrectly, they were very careful to account for all the snow days & partial days. Will Seattle do this also?
In addition to the 3 day waiver for all schools (for PD), Seattle also has a 3 day waiver (from the 180 day rule) just for elementary schools specifically for conference time. I'm wondering how the middle school part of the K-8's got off 3 full days also for conferences? The MS part of the K-8's already are shortchanged by 1/2 hr. daily compared to the regular MS 6-1/2 hr schedules. Does anyone know how they can do this? Some regular middle schools have also wanted to take time off for conferences and were told that the waiver was only for elementary lschools, not for middle schools, so why does it extend to the middle school kids in K-8's?
I also wonder how so many middle schools are allowed to take 1 & 2 day "slow start" days off for the 7th & 8th grades at the beginning of the year? Doesn't the 180 day rule mean 180 days, and not just for some schools, but not for others...?