Tuesday Open Thread
Summer learning opportunities via the Families&Education levy for rising kindergarteners to rising ninth graders.
Summer learning classes in math and science for teachers via UW's Computer Science & Engineering Department.
Seattle Schools would like your feedback on your enrollment experience.
Please complete these surveys below to partner with us in making improvements for the Open Enrollment/School Choice process:
Please join us at the next general meeting of the Seattle Special Education PTSA! The meeting is scheduled for Monday, May 23 at the JSCEE at 7:00 pm. We will have guest speakers talking about different interventions/resources available for our students including the areas of dyslexia, mental health and ABA therapy. Also we also hold the election for next years board members. It will be a robust and exciting agenda. Hope to see you all there!
Summer learning classes in math and science for teachers via UW's Computer Science & Engineering Department.
Seattle Schools would like your feedback on your enrollment experience.
Please complete these surveys below to partner with us in making improvements for the Open Enrollment/School Choice process:
Please join us at the next general meeting of the Seattle Special Education PTSA! The meeting is scheduled for Monday, May 23 at the JSCEE at 7:00 pm. We will have guest speakers talking about different interventions/resources available for our students including the areas of dyslexia, mental health and ABA therapy. Also we also hold the election for next years board members. It will be a robust and exciting agenda. Hope to see you all there!
Comments
- MemoReader
- very concerned teacher
Concerned Teacher, this has been a topic of discussion around the district and I think parents are starting to see that there is no "free" in "free preschool."
It's odd that they're not included in the school budget allocations. When evaluating the city's offer, the district assumed each classroom would cost a school almost $14,000 in administrative and office staff time.
See page 42 of this document.
- vct
I thought your email address was ssss.westbrook@gmail.com. That's how you posted it many many months ago. I've been sending docs to that address for months. Please tell me it's yours.
Concerned
Concerned
HP
Middle and high school students from here and abroad are invited to make international friends and build their cross-cultural communication and leadership skills on the UW campus this summer! This program is coordinated by FIUTS (Foundation for International Understanding Through Students) and is open to local and international participants.
The FIUTS Seattle Language and Culture Institute (www.fiuts.org/slci) welcomes middle and high school students from the U.S. and around the world to Seattle. Participants from the Seattle area spend each morning in workshops focused on cultural competency and global leadership; international students spend the morning in an English language class. In the afternoons, FIUTS staff lead the whole group on guided trips to locations around the Seattle area for fun and educational excursions.
We now have a limited number of partial scholarships available for local participants! Please contact Ellen Frierson at ellen@fiuts.org for details.
2016 Seattle Language and Culture Institute Dates:
International Participants: July 13, 2016 - July 27, 2016 (Residential Camp)
Seattle-area Participants: July 11, 2016 - July 29, 2016 (Day Camp)
Additional details and online registration forms are available at www.fiuts.org/slci
Tryingto Help
(But I will say that the high school then was not-so-helpful around an issue with what did and did not appear in the yearbook about our student and having that 504 might have been a good idea.)
CCC
It was frustrating to all but I did feel like we did contribute somewhat by reading and guiding the essays.
Tryingto Help
We don't "admit" people to public school. This isn't private school; there is no rejection process. It is so off-putting. Why do we not call it enrollment?
In terms of the nursing/admin support, it's an interesting situation. Many (most?) schools don't have nurses around anyway and it would be very uncommon in any preschool/pre-K program I've ever seen to have a nurse or significant admin support/principal. So on the surface I can see why those kids weren't considered. But especially if they're being included in the building rhythms, I can see a need for some additional building support.
NE Parent
And the city thinks none of this should count as overhead for the school and supply additional funds to compensate? What a load. A FREELOAD.
DistrictWatcher
Again, thank you for the suggestions.
Tryingto Help
http://q13fox.com/2016/05/11/seattle-middle-school-students-create-petition-challenging-dress-code/
There's an article in the Ballard T'man about dress code too. The author had teachers at Whitman tell her she was distracting them and it really grossed her out.
http://www.ballardtalisman.com/opinions/2016/05/03/following-the-dress-code/
Ballard Bridge
Every kid is different - I wish there was less pressure to "know" what you want to be/do at their age. I personally went to college for a few years, had to quit to take care of family matters and went back in my 20s. I was by far a better and more motivated student the 2nd time around ;)
reader47
over the past five years and one of the bits of accepted wisdom there is that if you want to end up at a four year college/university that does offer merit aid or that does not meet full need (per The CSS Profile), then think hard about taking any college level classes during your "gap year."
The accepted wisdom is that if you enter one of those schools as an upperclassman (transfer status, not like a freshman) that you will not be offered as good an aid package as you would get coming straight from HS, or straight from a gap year with no course credit earned.
Now, for a school that only uses the FAFSA for aid, does not meet full need, and/or has an established relationship with community colleges (as it sounds like is the case with Trying to Help's protege, that "wisdom" probably doesn't apply. BUT, if the kid is thinking, I want to take a year off and then apply to (insert top fifty Liberal Arts College name here) they should check with some of those target schools and see what eight community college credits (or whatever) might do to their status.
College Confidential is not for the faint of heart, but if you stick to the Parent Forums and the Financial Aid thread, you can pick up some useful info. (Do NOT go near the "Chance Me" and "Ivy" threads. They are crazy!)
As weird as it sounds, the funding issue isn't really a concern - that aspect is covered (as long as she doesn't decide to go someplace like Harvard or Stanford ha!).
If she ever decides to go it'll likely be something low key - she's just not an academically motivated kid, despite being intelligent beyond her years. I have siblings who have similar traits and have become very successful in their fields without college. I just wish there was way way way less pressure to "succeed" for kids these days - life is a journey with many paths and its ok not to know which is the right one immediately ;)
reader47
Many of the local community colleges are offering 4 year B.A. degrees (North, South, Seattle Central), Bellevue, etc. Sone of these schools have articulation agreements with UW that allow students to transfer credits for specific classes towards their UW major. - NP