Please let us know if you attend the rally before the meeting. Seeing photos from Twitter; looks like a good crowd at the rally. The West Seattle Blog is there reporting. I am going to attempt to live blog so you will see abbreviations, spelling/grammar errors, etc. I will clean it up but I think it is worth trying to do. I will be refreshing the page as I go. I am sad to see that apparently President Liza Rankin is not even going to allow 10 people over the regular 20 to testify. Just five. Also, right at the beginning, the Board has stuck in, after Board comments, a Progress Monitoring presentation. They could have put it at the end but they didn't. They think - in 45 minutes - they can do Superintendent comments, Board comments and this presentation. I doubt that public testimony will start on-time. Tone-deaf doesn't even cover it with Board leadership. To note, apparently the district scheduled the NE community meeting on closures on Rosh Hashanah which is October 2. I
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Ed
By all accounts, they were representative of the sorts of educators we want for students - educators who form relationships, reach out, and motivate students by caring about them.
(the issues mirmac and Ed point out are important, but are readily commented on in other threads.)
You and your families are in my thoughts and prayers, John, Megan and Gary. It is comforting to think that you are with each other now, caring for each other. It's tbe Ballard way.
It's been tough year for the Ballard HS community. And seattle citizen nailed it re: respected educators. Please keep the students, staff, and families in your thoughts and prayers.
CT
There are lots of differences of opinion on this blog (and we get what I think are thoughtful complaints at times that "minority" views get shot down too quickly or harshly), and from time to time people shake their fists at the heavens and rant or complain. I think it is all (or virtually all) fine, and I enjoy reading virtually all of the comments, whether I agree with people's positions or not. Frankly, I have learned a lot from folks like RosieReader and others who push back from time to time against some comments. But this was something so outside the bounds of common courtesy and decency that I think it spoke badly of the blog to leave it there. What if family ahd friends of the three Ballard staff are reading? Or students of those teachers? This is the kind of comment that, if I heard it made at a dinner table or in a group, I would have no problem getting up and leaving -- on the spot. And I wouldn't bother to be particularly subtle about it. But these kinds of things are NOT said in those situations -- just because they are so antisocial and out-of-bounds.
It is one thing for Melissa and Charlie to "invite" virtually the entire world in to discuss the state of public education in Seattle. To me, that doesn't mean they forfeit the ability to escort people (or their comments) out when they are clearly designed only to wound and offend -- which I think this was.
I also am glad to see RosieReader's comments. She and I disagree on many things, but she offers respectful dialogue and perspectives. Where IS Rosie? I miss her!
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