First Day of School Open Thread
How did it go?
I saw this on Facebook:
I visited the new-with-old Loyal Heights ribbon-cutting yesterday. It's very nice, lots of light. It seems very big for an elementary. I'll throw some photos up soon.
One thing I noted (and told some kids who were touring) is that for some of the bathrooms, the boys are on the right, girls on the left but it changes in other bathrooms. I told them to be sure to look at the sign before they go in. (There are no doors to the restrooms, just the stalls. The majority of boys' bathrooms have one stall, two urinals; the girls have just two stalls.)
I saw this on Facebook:
Washington Middle School, 60 minutes late with robocall one hour ahead of time. Mercer Middle School, 27 minutes late and counting... No robocall, husband is driving all the kids to school that he can pack in. A bunch of 6th graders who were already freaked out and now get to be late on their first dayAlso, SEA will vote on Saturday to ratify their new contract.
I visited the new-with-old Loyal Heights ribbon-cutting yesterday. It's very nice, lots of light. It seems very big for an elementary. I'll throw some photos up soon.
One thing I noted (and told some kids who were touring) is that for some of the bathrooms, the boys are on the right, girls on the left but it changes in other bathrooms. I told them to be sure to look at the sign before they go in. (There are no doors to the restrooms, just the stalls. The majority of boys' bathrooms have one stall, two urinals; the girls have just two stalls.)
Comments
LH Mom
SPS really messed up with REMS/Whitman assignments.
sixwrens
Questions:
The list of student information that will be sent to Naviance is lengthy, and doesn’t align with what I remember from a few months ago. Did I miss something?
Shouldn’t the career interest profiler activities be possible without ANY personally-identifying information? Just google “career exploration”, there are dozens of sites that provide this for free, using many different types of methodologies.
Can students not opt out of this? Why are parents required to do this?
Did anyone go to the meeting at Cleveland last night, and was it useful?
Melissa, aren’t you on the committee that oversees this? Can you provide any insights?
Mag mom
Assigned Seat
Garfield seems to be on the same bell schedule as last year. There was chatter in the spring about moving to an 8-period schedule in advance of the entire district. The kid had a good first day, happy to report.
FNH
Crazy Boundaries
BHS parent
Mag Mom, I am indeed on the Information Technology Advisory Ctm and we did discuss Naviance at our last meeting. As I reported previously, the Board WAS initially told that it was okay to just have four student identifying items. Naturally, now we are being told that Naviance needs more, that the student might do this anyway on their own if they were looking for information (I doubt that) and that the counselors are all for this.
Yes, there are many free sites but the kinds of things that counselors need help with - questions about class rank, GPA, etc. - they claim can be more easily done with Naviance. My question then is what is the Source and/or Schoology for? Those are some pretty basic pieces of info for high school students.
I'll ask - I think students can opt out. They just can't agree to use Naviance by themselves. Meaning, if a parent opts their child out, the child can't opt back in.
I will put up a separate thread on the Naviance meetings and will be attending at least one of them.
First day went well. Having one teacher occupying the teachers' lounge as her classroom is a little odd though. On the plus side, a senior teacher took that spot so it wouldn't go to a new teacher. That's really good to see.
LH Mom, I don't remember the cracks in the stairs. Were they wide (could you stick a piece of paper in them?) or just visible lines? Wide cracks are a problem, but just about all concrete has visible cracks. I was more concerned about the width of the stairway in the southwest corner of the building--I think it should have had a center handrail.
As it's set up right now, a student cannot opt out using their Source account. Only a parental account can do that. In fact, a student looking at their Source account can't even verify that they've opted out! This needs to be fixed, any influence you can push hard on, since there's a short window to opt out?
HS soon
This was the southeast staircase. They seemed like more than just visible lines to me.
LH Mom