Director Dury Community Meeting on Monday

It is great that SCPTSA has been lending a hand to directors in organizing community meetings. If you have joined one of these meetings, you can see there can be 50,75,100 participants (one meeting had 300 people!) This, of course, is far more any regular in-person meeting. However, I also see that SCPTSA tends to call on people we hear from all the time. And SCPTSA knows who these people are. 

And note to directors, it is YOUR job to make sure that multiple outlets know when you have a meeting. There is nothing about this at the SPS website. That’s on Director Dury. 

 Via SCPTSA Facebook page:

Dear Community,

The school year is almost over! Seattle Council PTSA is working with school board directors to set up community meetings to facilitate engagement with their constituents over the summer.

Last year we hosted a Student Town Hall with over 300 participants. We are working on a similar event - stay tuned!

We will be hosing a community meeting with Erin Dury, School Board Director for District 4 this coming Monday, June 21st from 6:30 to 8PM. Please join this opportunity to connect with Director Dury. Everyone is welcome. Priority will be given to schools in District 4:

Adams Elementary

Ballard High School

C. Blaine K-8

Cascade Parent Partnership Program

The Center School

Coe Elementary

John Hay Elementary

Lawton Elementary

Magnolia Elementary

McClure Middle School

Queen Anne Elementary

Salmon Bay K-8

West Woodland Elementary


Topic: Conversation with District 4 School Board Director Erin Dury

Time: Jun 21, 2021 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)


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Meeting ID: 924 0600 0931

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Comments

Anonymous said…
It may be possible that SPS cannot post about a community meeting with Dury this close to the election, especially since Dury has not been holding them in the past. It seems extremely obvious that this is really a campaign move given that Dury, who was appointed to her position a few months back, now has a strong challenge from Vivian Song Maritz. The SCPTSA/Hampson/Rankin cabal want to continue to have an iron grip on the board and so their involvement should be seen as primarily a campaign move.

RCWer
6/21/21, 1:58 PM
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