Open Thread
From Seattle Parks:
Director Rick Burke has a community meeting on Saturday, June 22 at Green Lake Library from 3:30-5pm.
What's on your mind?
Lifeguarded beaches are opening soon!!! Seattle Parks and Recreation offers safe, lifeguarded beaches at nine sites around the city, and we strongly recommend swimming only where lifeguards are present. Summer Beaches are open daily, weather permitting, from noon to 7 p.m. on weekdays and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. We also offer FREE youth swim lessons at every beach every week for kids ages 6 and up. Details: http://ow.ly/T0W050uIjXCI've seen this notice on Twitter a couple of times:
Does your student keep medication in the nurse's office? If so, please be sure your student picks up his/her medication on the last day they will be attending school this year.Via Twitter: Opportunity for civic-minded teens:
There's a School Board Candidate Forum on Monday, June 24th from 7-8:30 pm at the Roosevelt High School Commons. The notice says the audience will have an opportunity to answer questions.Know a high school soph/junior who's a promising civic catalyst? Encourage them to apply to@CitizenUnivYouth Collaboratory! Every year we select 24 students from across the U.S. for a rich program of learning and leadership. DEADLINE July 1!
Director Rick Burke has a community meeting on Saturday, June 22 at Green Lake Library from 3:30-5pm.
What's on your mind?
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Very upset WSHS parent
-SMDH
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Seattle School Board Director, Zachary DeWolf left the board retreat- early.
https://www.seattleschools.org/UserFiles/Servers/Server_543/File/District/Departments/School%20Board/18-19%20agendas/June%2026/C01_20190626_Minutes_20190601.pdf
No surprise.
However, I did a review of minutes of Work Session and committee meetings and it is DeWolf who misses the most meetings and/or leaves early.
Let's take a moment to explain to some readers what is actually going on.
There is this thing on the internet called "trolling." Sometimes people find a site where they can comment anonymously and they purposely publish nasty comments, sometimes racist comments, in order to cause chaos and discord. In my many years of reading this site I am convinced that the racist comments come from one person, maybe two at most. It's one or two cranks. Nothing more. Doesn't make it OK, but it means it should not be assumed to be views widely shared here.
There's also a thing on the internet called "nut-picking." This is much less well known than trolling. Nut-picking is where people pull out an unrepresentative comment, usually one that is hateful and extreme, and use it to discredit the entire site and an entire community. That is what is happening with the way this blog is being discussed in some places. The hateful comments of trolls are taken as the true beliefs of this site's founder and its entire readership. And that is just absurd.
One has to ask why anyone would engage in such attacks on this site and its readership. I think the answer is, as always, "who benefits?" In this case it's district leaders and wealthy education reformers, who yearn to see an effective site of resistance to their agenda be taken down.
The desire to silence dissent is really troubling. It never, ever leads anywhere positive.
Blair
It’’s my understanding that once a teacher is working at the JSCEE they lose the protection of the Seattle Education Association. Does anyone know if that’s true? I ask because once you’ve been notified by your supervisor that you’re no longer allowed to contact the board or the superintendent, it seems logical to assume your job is not secure.
She’s Unhinged
As I turn the blog away from direct SPS issues, I will have some final thoughts.