Robert Eagle Staff Middle School Updates
The letter below was sent to parents at RESMS. It's okay but there are some troubling issues.
- the kids need snacks because the period between breakfast and lunch is so long? They don't exactly say what that length of time is and when these kids will eat (and how can the school afford to buy snacks?)
- the students get their schedules on the first day of class. Well, there's a way to make for a crazy day. Kids lining up to get their schedules and then wandering the building to find their classrooms. And they get to figure out how to use their lockers the same day? I know many kids don't use them but that's a lot of information for the first day of school.
And this:
Students will also receive a duplicating form on which they can document any questions or concerns about their schedules. One copy of the form will be picked up and brought immediately to the registrar and counseling team, and the other copy can stay with your student.
Oh my, that should be interesting.
- hey, a zero period. I remember those; anyone else?
There is an orientation for 6th graders on Monday the 28th from 9 am to noon.
Lastly,
Join us for an event to celebrate the unveiling and dedication of the Andrew Morrison's murals and Honoring Circle at Robert Eagle Staff Middle School, Cascadia Elementary and Licton Springs K-8 School.
The public ceremonies will be held July 13, 6 until 8 p.m. and August 25, 5 until 8 p.m. at Robert Eagle Staff Middle School, 1330 N. 90th St.
From Marni Campbell, Robert Eagle Staff Middle School principal:
Dear Eagle Staff Families,
The first day of school is September 6th, and we hope that you are as excited as we are to launch our new school community.
Here are a few key items for your information:
Yours truly,
Marni A. Campbell, Principal
Follow us on twitter @EagleStaffMS
- the kids need snacks because the period between breakfast and lunch is so long? They don't exactly say what that length of time is and when these kids will eat (and how can the school afford to buy snacks?)
- the students get their schedules on the first day of class. Well, there's a way to make for a crazy day. Kids lining up to get their schedules and then wandering the building to find their classrooms. And they get to figure out how to use their lockers the same day? I know many kids don't use them but that's a lot of information for the first day of school.
And this:
Students will also receive a duplicating form on which they can document any questions or concerns about their schedules. One copy of the form will be picked up and brought immediately to the registrar and counseling team, and the other copy can stay with your student.
Oh my, that should be interesting.
- hey, a zero period. I remember those; anyone else?
There is an orientation for 6th graders on Monday the 28th from 9 am to noon.
Lastly,
Join us for an event to celebrate the unveiling and dedication of the Andrew Morrison's murals and Honoring Circle at Robert Eagle Staff Middle School, Cascadia Elementary and Licton Springs K-8 School.
The public ceremonies will be held July 13, 6 until 8 p.m. and August 25, 5 until 8 p.m. at Robert Eagle Staff Middle School, 1330 N. 90th St.
From Marni Campbell, Robert Eagle Staff Middle School principal:
Dear Eagle Staff Families,
The first day of school is September 6th, and we hope that you are as excited as we are to launch our new school community.
Here are a few key items for your information:
- We finally have a phone number! Call the main office at 206-413-2300, the attendance office at 206-413-2304, and send faxes to 206-413-2301.
- On Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, the school day begins at 8:55 am and ends at 3:45 pm. Every Wednesday except for the first day of school, the school day begins at 8:55 am and ends at 2:30 pm.
- Students should not arrive at school more than 20 minutes prior to the start of school unless it is for a planned activity.
- We will have two mixed grade lunches. Because of our later start, students may have a long time to wait between breakfast and lunch, so we invite students to plan for snacks and water accordingly (protein is brain food!). We will have snacks on hand for students as needed.
- Students should plan to bring their supplies on the first day of
school. See the attached supply list. Note that composition books are a
core component of our supplies and of our instruction. We have
purchased extras to provide if needed, and welcome donations in our main
office.Eagle.Staff.17-18.
Supply.List (Autosaved).pdf - We are partnering with the North Boys & Girls Club to provide after school opportunities for students. Students who are members of the Boys & Girls Club can participate in after school activities every day after school. To enroll, go to ns.positiveplace.org or email ns@positiveplace.org. We will also be sponsoring 10-week after-school enrichment courses throughout the school year which will begin in October.
- Students will receive their schedules on the first day of school in their first period classes. We will have clearly marked tables by the main entrance to the building on the first day of school where students can find the location of their first period class. First period teachers will be launching our students with a welcome, an introduction to our school, student schedules with maps that students can use to plot their day, and lockers with combinations. Students will also receive a duplicating form on which they can document any questions or concerns about their schedules. One copy of the form will be picked up and brought immediately to the registrar and counseling team, and the other copy can stay with your student. We will address any questions or concerns as soon as possible.
- Jazz Band will be a zero period (before school) class that will meet at 8:00 am on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. If you are interested in being part of our Jazz Band, email Mr. Aguilar at jcaguilar@seattelschools.org. Choir will meet during the school day, and we will work to develop out of school time choir opportunities as well.
- Please partner with us to help our students have a safe and healthy pathway to school and to keep our neighborhood peaceful. Walk or bike to school if you can. If you are driving, plan to drop your student off a few blocks away from campus if possible. If you are dropping off directly at school, you must do so in our parking lot, entering at the east, and exiting with a right turn only from the west (see the attached map). There will be no stopping or parking along 90th in front of the school during drop off and pick up times. (7-9 am and 3-5 pm). School buses will be dropping off on Stone Way. Robert Eagle Staff Middle School Transportation Plan.pdf
Yours truly,
Marni A. Campbell, Principal
Follow us on twitter @EagleStaffMS
Comments
Flummoxed
-long run
-Jane
FNH
-SEWS
We get our schedules weeks BEFORE school starts AND they set aside a couple of days BEFORE start of school so that parents and students can go in and get the necessary fixes or changes done before the first day of school.
Kudos to amazing principal Paula Montgomery and her wonderful counsellors, and extraordinary registrar who is kind and caring.
Hamilton did like REMS same day first day kids get schedule and it WAS A HOT MESS. Kids would sit in wrong classrooms for a week. Teachers wasted time, learning time wasted, emotional overwrought kids, awful! Not productive AND not necessary. All middle schools should follow Paula's example. Humane and efficient: JAMS Jaguars, teachers, admin, and students put the learning experience first and foremost and every decision flows from that.
We are grateful. Marni should know better. She's not starting this off right. Nothing is more critical than a master schedule in a comprehensive secondary school, aside from the quality of the principal herself. Don't be another HIMS - be a JAMS
Thanks JAMS
FormerJaguar
-NP
With all the statue talk I would like to see a reconsideration of Roosevelt High School's moniker. Roosevelt's famous quote about Natives is outrageous.
Is the district serious about requiring Native studies for all students? Naming a building is one thing, important as a symbol, but what about some action?
Let's not forget Lawton, named after Geronimo's vanquisher.
This district has failed Native students and all students by neglecting the uncomfortable history of Seattle and America in general in regards to Native people.
Let's join the 21st century and face our history head on.
Salish
“the most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian.”
“I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are the dead Indians, but I believe nine out of every 10 are,” Roosevelt said during a January 1886 speech in New York. “And I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.”
Sounds like Jefferson Davis would be for a lot of folks down south. The district needs to get with the times and remove offensive, insulting and in this case deliberately oppressive names from schools.
greenbug
Just today someone decapitated the statue of William Crawford, a close friend of George Washington, who was tortured and killed by Sandusky Valley tribes.
Oso
The issue of named buildings and future naming certainly is something all government entities should be considering. I think it is a difficult thing with presidents who tend to have more balanced records of public service. What I have heard discussed nationally are plaques that do much more explaining of that public service to the public. As well, I can see required classroom time of explanation of public service of any building named for a person (good and bad, see Aki Kurose as a notable good person).
In regards to Eagle Staff, it should be noted that Lichton Springs K-8 is also located there and they have a Native American focus. My Native American younger cousins go to Lichton Springs K-8.
HP
So just for the record RESMS has mural of a know killer of Mexican women and
children. The brutalities he and his men committed in the name of revenge is sickening.
Take the mural down!
--Inconvenient truth.
Roosevelt High School, however, was named with intent to show the superiority of white culture over Native culture.
Big difference.
greenbug
Thats our 20th century president who gave us Yellowstone! Bully!
How can Black kids walk into that school? Because SPS isn't teaching their students about the real history of the United States. It's "progressive" in SPS, but only enough to get the kids to vote Democrat after graduation.
Change It
Applying modern standards of morality to past historical figures is a troublesome idea. Where does it end? How many historical figures believed in racial equality, gender equality, LGBT equality, etc.?
Can anyone suggest a new name for the state of Washington (misogynous slave holder)? King (philanderer, misogynous, anti-LGBT) County?
Let Sanity Prevail
My2Cents
-LM
Housing covenants, police harassment, segregated schools - it was all here like in much of the US.
TR was a racist and people liked that, He hated Indians and thought Blacks inferior. The people elected him president.
Then the school district named a high school after knowing his record and beliefs, honoring those beliefs,in fact.
So if SPS teachers really explained the history of Seattle and its racist past, no student of any race or ethnicity would walk into that school.
SPS teachers are liberal but most are not honest about out country's ugly past.
Maple Leaf
But teachers don't control the names of the buildings nor curriculum so I'm not sure how calling them out - Maple Leaf - really helps.
Go and agitate for implementation of the ethnic studies resolution. Go petition the Board to rename buildings. Go petition UW about its statues and go petition the state for our state's name.
But complaining here isn't going to change much.
Still, teachers add content all the time. A brief history of Teddy Roosevelt's racist views does not require Board approval or official curriculum.
SPS staff is mainstream liberal, for the most part, and they do a disservice to students by white-washing history.
Looking forward to more discussion on this topic.
Maple Leaf
I don't know enough about how much leeway teachers have but on history? I think a teacher in a school named for a president who then talks about that president in a less-than-flattering manner just might get pushback.
I think the kids DO need to hear it all but I think the district - if this was not approved curriculum - would hear about it.
Right now in Canada the Ontario teachers' union is asking for the removal of the name of their first Prime Minister, Sir John Macdonald from schools and anything under federal control.
He is known as the "architect of genocide" against First Nations people.
I would hope and expect free speech to prevail if Seattle teachers used original source material without editorializing to illustrate Roosevelt's racism.
I will ask the district and get back to you.
Maple Leaf
Dear SPS FOIA officer please send me all information related to changing the name of Roosevelt high school. Please include any emails from the general public or school teacher and other SPS staff. Focus on Nathan Hale parents.
Do it!
San Antonio just today decided to remove Lee's name from a high school:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/education/article/NEISD-board-votes-to-drop-name-of-Lee-High-School-12159774.php
Doit%
Great read at: http://www.historylink.org/File/5192
I think we need to look at who we named buildings for and as importantly, why.
Example, Franklin High School's namesake was a slave owner but became an ardent abolitionist.
I also read on Wikipedia about the 1966 school strike in Seattle protesting racial segregation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_school_boycott_of_1966
From what I've seen of his writings and speeches, Roosevelt is not who we want to have as the name of a high school.
The man's views were not just a sign of the times. They were the views of an educated man who embraced white superiority in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War.
I think it's worthy of a task force to study building names and how they affect students and staff. I'd love to apply.
Mary Logan
Again, let the Board know you want a taskforce or a manner to advocate for changing the names of schools.
I'd suggest replacing "America" with "Kale" or "Oatmeal". Although both are stupid names, no one can really find an objection to kale or oatmeal.
Sarcasm intended.
Sanity
I think you've hit on something.
A beautiful planet of peace and harmony.
Place names that reflect our reliance on plants for food.
But for now, in 2017, let's start by looking at the names we, as a society, have decided to name buildings, in particular school buildings, and how the men we honored with their names would have looked upon the students passing through the doors.
Seems a pretty easy task. Look up Ben Franklin and see what he said about non-whites. Look up Theodore Roosevelt and see what he said about non-whites. Look up MLK...
If they said disparaging things or held views of white superiority, then change the name.
Vespucci was also an oppressor of the Native people, so maybe we should change the name somewhere down the road.
My way of thinking is this, if we had majority Native people in the boundaries of the US would Columbus, Vespucci, Custer, Roosevelt and many others have their names on schools,
cities and the nation? No.
If blacks were majority would we have Fort Hood, Robert E. Lee anything, Roosevelt High School? No.
Of course every human is flawed but society draws a line and the line depends on who does the drawing.
So maybe plant food names are in our distant Star Trek future.
player unknown
Good way to sully the start of school for kids.
“To be clear, many members of our community were hurt, frightened, and upset by what occurred at IMPACT,” Interim Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life Alexa Lee Arndt remarked in an email between Greek leaders, according to The Daily Mississippian. “Because of the underlying reality many students of color endure on a daily basis, the conversation manifested into a larger conversation about race relations today at the University of Mississippi.”
-a parent