tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post3077674773322554981..comments2024-03-29T02:41:52.718-07:00Comments on Seattle Schools Community Forum: Blanford's KUOW Interview Melissa Westbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17179994245880629080noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-30677398073412494252018-08-01T23:22:28.177-07:002018-08-01T23:22:28.177-07:00This publication is excellent.
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Agreed. I'm also very d...@ Inflammatory Piece <br /><br />Agreed. I'm also very disappointed in Ann Dornfeld. What has happened to her (and KUOW)? She used to be a fairly good reporter. Why didn't she check the truth of what Dir. Blanford told her, like Melissa did? Thank you Melissa! In the interest of fairness, will Dornfeld conduct an equally indulgent 30 minute interview with the only Native American school board director (Dir. Pinkham) or the only Pacific Islander director (Dir. Patu)? What was the point of this interview other than to give one director the opportunity to promote himself and blame others, unchallenged by facts? Bizarre. <br /><br />Also Disappointed in DornfeldAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-3199009627399523242017-07-29T14:15:14.405-07:002017-07-29T14:15:14.405-07:00Slander, the verb, applies to written statements. ...Slander, the verb, applies to written statements. The poster used the word correctly in regards the abuse thrown at Director Blanford. The race hate bleeds out of this blog on a regular basis.<br /><br />Sad ManAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-71397207282098496862017-07-29T10:26:40.084-07:002017-07-29T10:26:40.084-07:00The legislature recently provided schools with add...The legislature recently provided schools with additional funding for advanced learners. Garfield, Blanford, Soup for Teachers and others that seek to destroy advanced learning pathways, have no evidence that the needs of advanced learners are being met.HCC Parentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-80906504576564502542017-07-29T00:27:58.165-07:002017-07-29T00:27:58.165-07:00HCC Parent didn't say "special education....HCC Parent didn't say "special education." He/she said "special need." And that is pretty much right on the mark. According to <a href="http://apps.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=392-170&full=true" rel="nofollow">Washington state law Chapter 392-170 WAC</a>, highly capable students qualify for what is called a "special service program." This special service program, according to the legislature (see 28A.185.020) is to include access to accelerated learning and enhanced instruction. For highly capable students, access to these <b>is</b> basic education. <br /><br />"Intervention" (here used in the sense of "doing something about it") is only required when general education classroom instructors fail to provide the legally mandated access to accelerated learning and enhanced instruction for these learners. They fail to do this all the fricking time. In this state many of them have received little to no training in what HC even is let alone what to do about it pedagogically. They blithely follow rumors and innuendos they hear on Soup for Teachers. <br /><br />The situation is most egregious (and often illegal) in terms of twice-exceptional (2E) students. The failure to identify gifted students with disabilities has civil rights and legal implications. Under current federal law, students are first exposed to a process of ongoing learning assessment by classroom teachers. Children performing below grade level are located and provided tiered interventions of increasing magnitude to alleviate performance delays—a process commonly called Response to Intervention or RTI. Students who fail to improve to grade level are then referred for special education. Yet, gifted students with learning disabilities frequently perform at average or higher levels by using advanced reasoning (and a massive amount of really, really, really hard work) to compensate for deficits. Schools OFTEN fail to identify them as needing special ed services for their disability.<br /><br />2E students frequently require substantial extra time to process when completing classroom activities or homework, fatigue easily due to compensation demands, require unusual parent support just to keep up with their classes, and need therapeutic interventions (e.g., reading interventions, occupational therapy, vision therapy, etc.) to prevent years of academic struggle. Without interventions, college and even high school graduation may be out of reach.<br /><br />For a thorough discussion and a useful list of best practices, <a href="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244013505855" rel="nofollow">see this article</a>.<br /><br />Providing HC students (including 2E and underserved minority HC students) with basic education is not "stealing stuff" from anyone. It's just providing students with a basic education. It's a civil rights issue.Go Highnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-4847560716848201952017-07-28T15:38:52.553-07:002017-07-28T15:38:52.553-07:00Seriously. No. HCC is not "intervention&quo...Seriously. No. HCC is not "intervention". It is not "special education". Special education is defined by a law, IDEA. It does not include people who do are not disabled. Intervention is to intervene, as in go between and interrupt. Intervention is something that is applied to an aberrant condition - as in a medical condition, abnormal behavior, addiction etc. No. We aren't trying to prevent advanced learning, giftedness, or good fortune, nor is it an obligation. "Intervention" is not necessary for advanced learning. Quit trying to steal stuff from disabled people by equating your circumstances.<br /><br />Get RealAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-36522714325038660852017-07-28T09:52:58.009-07:002017-07-28T09:52:58.009-07:00Advanced learning is a special need intervention. ...Advanced learning is a special need intervention. Can't clap for Blanford's support to take down a program for special need students.HCC Parentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-54008705985806865162017-07-27T18:45:39.337-07:002017-07-27T18:45:39.337-07:00@Preparations/reparations--not sure if this is Bla...@Preparations/reparations--not sure if this is Blanford's logic, but I agree with you and this is why honors for all is just window dressing political cover BS driven by people who shouldn't be given the reigns to hijack pathways set up by a system designed by THE DISTRICT to supposedly serve students ready and interested in more challenge.<br /><br />Fix ALAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-64350393091036738092017-07-27T18:22:36.628-07:002017-07-27T18:22:36.628-07:00I think his support of the city's pre-k progra...I think his support of the city's pre-k program for low income children is actually an admission that much of the opportunity gap for young black students in the district is not caused by our schools, but rather by factors in the lives of students before elementary school begins and in their lives outside of school. The schools can't do much about a gap that is not caused by the schools and I think he knows it. The pre-k program will help with the gap and I think he knows it. Not much mystery there. Preparations/Reparationsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-36453491556235119632017-07-27T14:57:41.660-07:002017-07-27T14:57:41.660-07:00I think Blanford has actually done quite a lot dur...I think Blanford has actually done quite a lot during his tenure. I think he has gone a long way toward increasing racial divisiveness in the district and he has successfully advocated for the dismantling of advanced learning. I don't think it is fair to call him a do-nothing school board member. Just because nothing he does benefits students in the district doesn't mean he has not had an impact.<br /><br />VoteHelmstetterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-11097876417999676722017-07-27T12:39:38.907-07:002017-07-27T12:39:38.907-07:00How many meetings has Stephan Blanford missed? Ste...How many meetings has Stephan Blanford missed? Stephan Blanford did not attend the meeting to VOTE ON THE BUDGET!!!<br /><br />I wish we had some actual reporting in this town.<br /><br />Missed Vote!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-53582950126077959822017-07-27T09:13:14.255-07:002017-07-27T09:13:14.255-07:00No, principals should not be deciding how services...No, principals should not be deciding how services are delivered. That is how Spectrum was essentially eliminated and why more students flocked to HCC. It's wishful thinking that "teachers can provide advanced instruction to ANY student who demonstrates need." If that were true, why would so many students feel the need to leave their neighborhood school for more appropriate services elsewhere? How does a young student "demonstrate need?" Do compliant, well behaved students who get their work done just fall under the radar? Does a student need to ask for more? <br /><br />-jmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-27303649824368248692017-07-26T21:26:26.228-07:002017-07-26T21:26:26.228-07:00There are nuance conversations related to testing....There are nuance conversations related to testing. Shame this was not explored. Enormously disappointed in Ann Dornfeld.<br /><br />Inflammatory Piecenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-48585063741419887892017-07-26T18:42:39.930-07:002017-07-26T18:42:39.930-07:00Katie May could also create a pull-out program or ...Katie May could also create a pull-out program or in-school "academy" designed to help promising students get up to speed so they can qualify for--and then thrive within--HCC. If Rainier Scholars can do it after working with kids for a year, why can't TM do it after working with these kids for 7 years?<br /><br />Instead, it sounds to me like principal is intent upon lowering the ceiling for high achieving kids, not helping others climb atop.<br /><br />DisAPPointedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-54474106366671435432017-07-26T18:24:51.337-07:002017-07-26T18:24:51.337-07:00Facts and Truth,
There is no legal requirement fo...Facts and Truth,<br /><br />There is no legal requirement for self-contained, so actually Katie May could integrate every single classroom and REQUIRE teachers to provide instruction to EVERY student at their assessed level. Students don't have to test into HCC to receive advanced learning. Teachers can provide advanced instruction to ANY student who demonstrates need.<br /><br />Therefore, Katie May has the power and right to offer what should be available at any school - instruction based on curriculum based assessments. Forget Cogat. It's irrelevant to a teacher correctly assessing reading level or offering walk-to-math based on continual, fluid assessments. It's all within her purview.<br /><br />Instead of being defensive, exercise your right at TM to change what's offered. May is not handcuffed by HCC. Actually, she has significant power to change the learning environment at her school.<br /><br />Actual TruthAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-59174001302458562872017-07-26T16:32:58.244-07:002017-07-26T16:32:58.244-07:00And fyi, slander is verbal statements, libel is wr...And fyi, slander is verbal statements, libel is written.Melissa Westbrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17179994245880629080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-81564713268495581202017-07-26T16:32:06.266-07:002017-07-26T16:32:06.266-07:00I didn't say - ever - that principals could ch...I didn't say - ever - that principals could change identification. I'm saying if principals can decide how Spectrum is delivered, why not HCC? In fact, that seems to be what is happening at Garfield and Thurgood Marshall.<br /><br />But Principal May knows her school community and her teachers know the kids. If they think there are kids in Gen Ed who could qualify for HCC, are they telling those parents or nominating kids themselves? I doubt it. And if not, why not?<br /><br />Melissa Westbrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17179994245880629080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-11619152569893377652017-07-26T16:07:55.206-07:002017-07-26T16:07:55.206-07:00"Here's a question - how come Thurgood Ma..."Here's a question - how come Thurgood Marshall's HCC isn't more diverse? It's within the principal's power to help make that change and yet, it hasn't happened."<br /><br />MW: Why do you keep repeating this complete inaccuracy?<br /><br />This is absolutely incorrect. The principal cannot change the identification criteria. Period.<br /><br />Even if the principal nominates every GE kid for testing, the HCC required cut-off CogAT scores (that are not based on state-mandated norming--comparison to similar demographics or experience) and the cut-off scores for achievement virtually exclude under-represented gifted children from being identified--as the entire De Bonte presentation to the school board spelled out.<br /><br />The fact that you continue to insist that the blame rests on Katie May, with all evidence to the contrary, is starting to border on slander.<br /><br />Facts and Truth Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-17473666450074952922017-07-26T13:48:18.286-07:002017-07-26T13:48:18.286-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-24782419573168919472017-07-26T12:59:06.098-07:002017-07-26T12:59:06.098-07:00Because Betty doesn't do that. Never has. I ...Because Betty doesn't do that. Never has. I will say she does focus on students in the SE but that is her region.Melissa Westbrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17179994245880629080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-31745564539431571702017-07-26T12:32:40.061-07:002017-07-26T12:32:40.061-07:00My non black wife is more brown than many of her b...My non black wife is more brown than many of her black friends. <br /><br />Logical error Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-35357991833512499742017-07-26T12:30:03.645-07:002017-07-26T12:30:03.645-07:00Everyone thinks it's OK for Patu only to repre...Everyone thinks it's OK for Patu only to represent Samoan students, why not question that?<br /><br />Ed voter<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-19577396486837078922017-07-26T12:02:55.652-07:002017-07-26T12:02:55.652-07:00Blanford complains about "racial microaggress...Blanford complains about "racial microaggressions manifested by Board members on other Board members and on staff and on community members who have come to testify" and then he says that many of the district's white parents have a disconnect between what they believes in their heart of hearts and how they act. That is totally a racial microaggression. White parents are more likely to have a disconnect between what they believe and how they act? Seriously? <br /><br />Isn't he supposed to represent ALL the students in district V? Isn't he supposed to act in the best interest of all the students in the district? All of them? <br /><br />I totally don't buy into this theory that only a black school board member can act in the best interests of black children. He's 14% of the board. That reasoning would have black boys receive 14% representation? Stop Stoking has a good point about the girls. Who represents the black girls and hispanic and Asian-American students? Is Director Burke the only one representing the educational needs of white boys on the board? This makes no sense!<br /><br />All of the board members should be doing their best for the educations of all 54,000+ students. Blanford can't just pick and choose. I mean, what, does he not represent the black and brown HCC students in his district? Or the black and brown SPED students? <br /><br />The gap cannot be solved by metering or rationing the educations of high performing kids. That literally does nothing for underserved students. We, the whole district, the entire board, the whole city, ought to be furthering the educations of ALL the students. Go Highnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-27591324271988750112017-07-26T11:24:14.207-07:002017-07-26T11:24:14.207-07:00@ Melissa and Lee- "Asians aren't monolit...@ Melissa and Lee- "Asians aren't monolithic so that's insulting right there."<br />I agree, Asians are a diverse group. So are "whites". I am getting tired of being lumped in with N. Europeans. My own family history is very different from other Americans, my G grandparents who came to the US as adults had zero schooling! No opportunity to attend school in their native country. We have different ethicities, diverse histories, different cultures, etc. And some "Whites" are pretty brown skinned as well. <br />-Diversity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-84503256793686292282017-07-26T08:53:44.787-07:002017-07-26T08:53:44.787-07:00Oh, and what's with the whole "only black...Oh, and what's with the whole "only black man" on the Board thing, anyway? How many black men does Blanford think there "should" be on the 7-person board at any time? If it's 2, then should there also be 2 black <i>women</i>? And then the remaining three spots should be divided between white, Asian, Hispanic, and Native American men AND women? According to SPS 2016-17 figures, Black/African American accounts for 16% of the district. <br /><br />If we wanted our board to match the diversity of our district, we'd have 3 white, 1 black, 1 Asian, 1 Hispanic and 1 other/mixed. Our current board's makeup is pretty darn close, even though with a 7-person board it's pretty easy for things to skew one way or the other. <br /><br />Stop StokingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com