Friday Open Thread
To note, Director Peters has changed her community meeting this weekend. It will NOT be on Saturday the 3rd but will be on Sunday, September 11th from 1-3 pm at Magnolia Library.
In the "things that make you go, hmmm" column, a reporter from the Times covered the 100 Black Parents meeting about Garfield's Honors for All program and yet, nothing in the paper about it.
The vaccination issue has come again just as school is starting up. Two good stories, one from The Olympian and one from KUOW. The KUOW story has a link to King County Health where you can look up the vaccination rate at your child's school. A cursory check finds several "50-70% complete" schools throughout our district. The ones that have 50% or fewer tend to be private schools.
What's on your mind?
In the "things that make you go, hmmm" column, a reporter from the Times covered the 100 Black Parents meeting about Garfield's Honors for All program and yet, nothing in the paper about it.
The vaccination issue has come again just as school is starting up. Two good stories, one from The Olympian and one from KUOW. The KUOW story has a link to King County Health where you can look up the vaccination rate at your child's school. A cursory check finds several "50-70% complete" schools throughout our district. The ones that have 50% or fewer tend to be private schools.
Nearly 90 percent of pediatricians encountered parents who opted out of vaccinations entirely in 2013, up from about 75 percent in 2006. And almost one in five parents asked to delay some or all of the potentially lifesaving shots.First Place School, which had served largely homeless children and had a troubled year as the first charter school in Washington state before it converted back to being private, is now cutting second to fifth grades. That may mean some new students on some Seattle schools. From KOMO news:
It also found a rise in the top reason doctors say parents reject immunizations: They just don’t think they’re necessary.
This week, many parents received a voice mail from the school informing them because of "budgetary constraints" First Place would operate as a private school for "pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and the 1st grade only". For parents like Hecker, whose daughter attends the second grade, they felt like they were duped.The 70mm Film Festival is coming up at the Cinerama. If you or your child have never seen a film in this format, consider going. They are showing a wide range of films from The Sound of Music to Aliens to Pink Floyd The Wall.
What's on your mind?
Comments
Waldorf at 37%!!!!
At least almost all of the Catholic schools are >90%
-NEPerson
HP
California just passed a law strictly limiting public school vaccination exemptions, and it's worked well at reducing the opt-out numbers. A similar bill failed in Olympia in 2015 but hopefully will come back in 2017.
Dr. Jenner
I am not surprised First Place school closed. Just months after First Place opened their doors:
"Its first principal resigned in November, more than half of its original board of directors have left, too, and the state’s charter-school commission has identified more than a dozen potential problems that need to be fixed soon if the school wants to keep its doors open."
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/statersquos-first-charter-school-in-disarray/
Too bad the kids got caught in the middle of this.
I know this is anecdotal but there are large populations in all Waldorf schools throughout the country who are not vaccinated or are selectively vaccinated.
HP
Keeping kids home from school and notifying the community of people you personally know, doesn't truly mitigate the disease consequences because diseases infect others before you or your family know you are sick and therefore contagious. -NP
https://www.facebook.com/joe.wolf.988/posts/10208359774846630?pnref=story