Oh Look, "Community Engagement Meetings" on "Well-Resourced Schools"
From SPS (finally):
Dear SPS families and staff,
You are invited to
join Seattle Public Schools (SPS) for an upcoming community meeting.
During these meetings, senior leaders will share information about the
proposed plan for creating a system of well-resourced schools that serve
students in kindergarten through 5th grade.
A system of
well-resourced elementary schools will create a new foundation of
stability and consistency that our students and staff need to thrive.
May and June Community Meetings Dates
To
ensure SPS families have the greatest opportunity to take part, each
meeting will present the same information in locations around our
district.
The schedule for well-resourced schools staff meetings will soon be shared with SPS staff.
Saturday, May 25, 10:30 a.m. - noon, Garfield High School, 400 23rd Ave.
Tuesday, May 28, 6 - 7:30 p.m., Roosevelt High School, 1410 NE 66th St.
Saturday, June 1, 10:30 a.m. - noon, Chief Sealth International High School, 2600 SW Thistle St.
Tuesday, June 4, 6 - 7:30 p.m., Zoom meeting
Translation
and interpretation services (American Sign Language (ASL), Amharic,
Cantonese, Somali, Spanish, and Vietnamese) will be provided at each
meeting based on request. After the online meeting, a recording will be
posted to the district website.
We hope you can join us! Take a
moment to RSVP or send us your questions. Please complete the form to
request accommodation for the meetings.
Our goal is that all
schools would include the elements that many of our families, staff, and
students said were important during the Well-Resourced Schools
Engagement Sessions last fall and earlier this spring.
You can
read more about this work, including the well-resourced schools elements
on our well-resourced schools webpage. Thank you for joining us for
these important conversations!
Sincerely,
Bev Redmond
Chief of Staff
Seattle Public Schools
- Four meetings and not a one in the NW/SE. I have to wonder why those regions would be left out.
- These are JUST for parents? That seems odd but perhaps divide and conquer is their plan.
- Kind of odd that the dates are on the district calendar but there is no link to any info on the SPS homepage. As well, no tweet about it.
- "Send us your questions" I'll lay odds that is performative language and if you ask any pointed or negative question, they will not answer it. There is a FAQ on the "well-resourced schools page." If I were a parent, I would agitate for ALL questions to be answered.
- As someone else pointed out, that May 28th meeting comes right on the heels of Memorial Day. Not great.
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Siri, what’s an example of gaslighting?
And, director Topp did say if there was "a massive outcry" against this, they could hit the pause button.
Demain, it sickens me that they want to frame this with happy talk. I can tell you from the last time that there was real pain and grief and that the district doesn't want to truly acknowledge that is wrong.
But, she's new. I'm guessing she doesn't speak for the board....?
When Director Topp said this, she got dead silence which was no surprise to me. I hope other directors do NOT act like sheep and listen to their constituents.
I think the even bigger question is what ‘s the cost of whatever is built. 4 bedrooms at 2 million? Irrelevant for adding families. 4 at $600K ? a lot more likely. But keeping 200K in income going while having kids is hard.