tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post7593427524575278077..comments2024-03-29T02:41:52.718-07:00Comments on Seattle Schools Community Forum: Tuesday Open ThreadMelissa Westbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17179994245880629080noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-12057006958741946402019-05-24T08:23:49.360-07:002019-05-24T08:23:49.360-07:00Last year 2018 is a year I would expected Roosevel...Last year 2018 is a year I would expected Roosevelt and Ballard to have more attrition from April enrollment to Oct attendance. We knew kids who left public school after 8th grade graduation for private high schools. They wanted a 4 year high school experience at one school, and did not want to get switched to Lincoln for 10th. <br /><br />But in 2016 & 2017 these two schools had on average had 27- 50 less students. Some other schools such as Garfield and Chief Sealth had a higher attrition of over a hundred per year. Other schools such as Franklin, W Seattle, Ingraham also showed an increased attrition in Oct last year. Center school actually lost fewer students last year and Nova actually gained students. Looking at only the past three years seems to me that there is a slight trend of high school enrollment shrinking in the South end only. <br /><br />The April enrollment report shows that even with the opening of Lincoln, Ballard, Ingraham, Roosevelt and Garfield still have over capacity enrollment. That is the truth of the matter. <br /><br />The north end overcrowded high schools that are far over capacity should not be targeted unfairly for extreme cuts. It is cruel, mean and wrong. It will impact kids unfairly who want to be competitive for their local state colleges. For example at UW a competitive school, basic admission requirements exclude many students. In actuality they need to take multiple years of the same foreign language as a core admissions requirement. These high schools already receive much less support from the district. Also, they are NOT schools without any F&R lunch kids. If you do the math, 12% F&R lunch is well over 200 kids at each of the larger high schools. These cuts also hurt many poor kids. This district has some messed up priorities and it is apparent they don't care about all the kids. <br /><br />MOM2 Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-22381281455152857782019-05-24T07:55:50.686-07:002019-05-24T07:55:50.686-07:00Dick said "Bellevue schools have an excellent...Dick said "Bellevue schools have an excellent reputation. I could not find an equivalent blog of complaining for Bellevue. I happen to think SPS is a pretty good district, and is moving in the right direction. But this blogs attitude and behavior is dragging on the district and has been for some time. Get involved and volunteer in a positive way if you can.."<br /><br />I respect that this is Dick experience, and that he truly believes this blog is the problem. Many people feel this way for the first few years in SPS. I have 17 years of attending budget meetings. I do share Dick's point of view but yet, like many people on this blog, I keep tilting at the windmills. <br /><br />My oldest recently graduated from SPS. As part of that ritual time window, I reconnected with a wide variety of folks who had "moved for the schools" over the years and also had students who were graduating. The reconnection was lovely and naturally we all compared stories about how "moving for the schools" vs "staying in Seattle" worked out. <br /><br />Everyone had some challenges but there were a few things that really struck me. <br /><br />1) Everyone who moved, had start times and end times for the school day that were 100% predictable and in most cases were the same times for their entire school experience. My kids had a different start and end time, almost every single year. Plus the magic years of the three tier system where there was 2.5 hours in between student 1 and student 2 starting school. <br /><br />2) Everyone else had multi-year calendars. They not only had great confidence in what time of day, their students went to school, they also knew all the days the students would be in schools. <br /><br />3) They also knew WHERE their kids would be going to school. One of my students was essentially a ping pong ball. I have lived in the same house for over 20 years but the school assignment has changed at least six times and under the 100% choice system, my neighborhood was simply assigned whatever school had space. <br /><br />4) Nobody outside of Seattle, ever had to have a conversation about "split siblings." In fact, many of the folks that moved were still bitter about this process of geo-splitting their siblings. <br /><br />Other districts don't have a blog like this because other districts somehow manage their basic operations and basic communications and do not treat students like widgets that can be picked up and moved at whim. <br /><br />I still keep volunteering my time and energy, because I still have hope that some basic operational competency could change things for the better. <br /><br />kelliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01322661098626555834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-11920013343425067822019-05-24T07:17:59.519-07:002019-05-24T07:17:59.519-07:00Fed Up,
You forgot many other reasons why we cann...Fed Up,<br /><br />You forgot many other reasons why we cannot trust the district staff downtown, there was the killing of Stectrum, and throttling HHC, killing Middle College in the south end, refusing to fund IB, pulling support for dual language programs, cutting arts funding at Center School, pushing after-school and before school care out of schools, pushing SBAC and a million other tests on our kids, choreographing community input events and forms to avoid input, deceptively ending choice schools, failing to maintain buildings (except the crystal palace). They have had multiple software purchase disasters and countless student data breaches. They keep hiring directors and other mid-level and upper management and cut cafeteria cooks, librarians, nurses, social workers, and janitors. Worst of all, they are failing to provide adequate teaching staff. Year after year after year, they lay off teachers in the spring only to fail to hire replacements in the summer and fall!!!<br /><br />No, we don't trust this district, and especially MMW. Nearly every time they are given the opportunity to do something right, they piss on our kids. Yeah, we remember!<br /><br />WestAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-79446956995995681682019-05-23T18:14:16.993-07:002019-05-23T18:14:16.993-07:00Bravo, FedUpBravo, FedUpMelissa Westbrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17179994245880629080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-59840618384857875102019-05-23T17:16:14.314-07:002019-05-23T17:16:14.314-07:00@HS parent, you capture the SPS incompetence eloqu...@HS parent, you capture the SPS incompetence eloquently. And that list of yours is abridged: there are so many other massive anti-student initiatives SPS has executed. Co-locating Denny and Chief Sealth, allowing Schmitz Park to fail into 17 portables, building the Eagle Staff and Cascadia campus without an auditorium, allowing “guess and go” spelling per readers and writers workshop instead of teaching actual grammar and spelling, knee-capping Cleveland and Franklin, and of course the truly egregious manner in which the district hurts SpEd students such as deaf and hard of hearing children or the failure to support dyslexic students. That’s just a small sampling of malfeasance.<br /><br />Right now, the district is actively trying to harm learners by (1) trying to ram through Amplify, (2) trying to cut-off alternative learning via outside credits, (3) doing nothing to bolster credit retrieval opportunities, and (4) gerrymandering the operations budget that favors central staff over kids and is blatantly targeting extra pain on kids in one particular building for no reason. <br /><br />SPS and Juneau are blasting water cannons at all of us, then pointing fingers at the legislature. It would be best to cut central staff to the bone and just let principals and their teachers get on with it, because it’s the teachers who show up day after day to face our kids and support our kids and teach our kids. At this point, all central office is good for our creating problems. <br /><br /> If you agree with this, then the only action you can take is to withhold your kids from their centralized data collection. Write whatever test you need to graduate, but every single other one, opt out! Vampires live off of blood, SPS lives for (but fails to protect) our kids’ data. Deprive them of it now. You don’t need an SBAC to know how your kid is doing in school.<br /><br />- Fed UpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-40408534436104791102019-05-23T16:37:31.816-07:002019-05-23T16:37:31.816-07:00@ Dick Schreck
If district staff doesn't want...@ Dick Schreck<br /><br />If district staff doesn't want to seem corrupt & incompetent then they need to be TRANSPARENT.<br /><br />We have seen lots of corrupt & incompetent staff come through JSC. Perhaps you have forgotten, but it makes the rest of us suspicious when staff is not transparent. Many of our central staff are committed and competent folks. But when staff hides information, or lies, it reminds of us of previous fiascos that happened when we weren't vigilant.<br /><br /> So whether it is budgeting (remember the Olchefsky 34 million loss, or Silas Potter), buildings (Selling Queen Anne HS, school closures during the population boom), privacy (giving away student disability records), or textbooks (EDM) , we've been burned too many times to assume that staff should just be trusted.<br /><br />Curriculum adoption is a particular recent sore spot after EDM sent most privileged families running to tutors & Kumon and left our more vulnerable students needing elementary level remediation before they could attempt algebra. (Remediation that they didn't get of course.)Also lost some excellent math teachers. Especially because success of that adoption was going to be guaranteed by "teacher-proofing", "fidelity of implementation", "Every student on the same page every day across the district", and anyone opposed was racist. So anything short of complete transparency & honesty, absolute adherence to board policies/RCWs, or language reminiscent of that used to promote EDM is just asking for trouble. This adoption process has had shortcomings on all three fronts.<br /><br />And most of us are volunteering in schools. I have been volunteering in SPS for almost 20 years, in classrooms. (Teaching high schoolers to multiply & do fractions among other things.) So we see how individual students are impacted with every decision downtown. Not really surprising that people are upset is it?<br /><br />-HS ParentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-75902030887225904242019-05-23T15:55:58.862-07:002019-05-23T15:55:58.862-07:00Data is correct in that Roosevelt is taking the la...Data is correct in that Roosevelt is taking the largest hit "this year". But A Parent is also correct in that all of the high schools are being unfairly and unnecessarily short staffed. <br /><br />I have posted many times on the topic of enrollment that the high school budget is nearly impossible to follow. The k-8 budget is homeroom based and relatively easy to follow. The high school budget is master schedule based and unbelievably convoluted. <br /><br />It is because the high school budget process is so convoluted that it has been possible for us to get this point, where we are actively RIF'ing high school teachers in the certain knowledge that these staff members will need to be hired back. <br /><br />There are so many challenges with getting some daylight and sanity restored to the high school budget. Believe it or not, the short staffing at North end high schools is directly related to the artificial enrollment caps on South end high schools. Everything about high school is intertwined. <br /><br />I know the board has pushed back hard on this but ... the key issue is simply that BUDGET has completely and totally refused to make any staffing adjustments to the FEBRUARY budget allocation. Period. <br /><br />The Superintendent is the only person who can instruct budget to change their stance. <br /><br /><br />kelliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01322661098626555834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-73755900949360625732019-05-23T15:37:39.716-07:002019-05-23T15:37:39.716-07:00correction in italics: RHS will go down a mere 17 ...correction in italics: RHS will go down a mere 17 kids, not the 23 stated above. So their screw-over is even worse. <br /><br /><br />THE RECEIPTS:<br /><br />School - Oct 2018 enrollment - April 2019 post-open enrollment for Sept 2019 - that Sept 2019 # less actual Oct 2018 diff VS Berge PROJECTED diff from her projected to current<br /><br />Ballard current 1,971 p/o 1,874 (97) vs (256)<br />Garfield current 1,774 p/o 1,712 (62) vs (294)<br />Roosevelt current 1,840 p/o 1,823 <b><i>(17) </i>vs (321)</b><br /><br />So compared to Berge’s budget difference versus the actual difference, Ballard will have 159 unfunded kids, Garfield will have 232 unfunded kids, but <b>Roosevelt will have <i>304 </i>unfunded kids</b>.<br /><br /><br />dataAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-88572503377739747872019-05-23T15:36:07.900-07:002019-05-23T15:36:07.900-07:00@Data
To catch you up Ballard, Garfield were als...@Data <br /><br />To catch you up Ballard, Garfield were also told they were losing draconian amounts of staff. Ballard and Garfield were each told 15 FTE staff loss. Ingraham loss of students are projected to be roughly same as Ballard (148 or so), and last I heard 4-8FTE being cut. Numbers were already reported on this blog on another thread. Franklin and Rainier Beach are even losing staff as well. Roosevelt is not the only school being targeted to take an unfair brunt of the cuts. The actual April POST enrollment report also demonstrates that Roosevelt IS NOT losing "the fewest students". Ballard also remains the largest high school with the highest enrollment. The schools being affected so unfairly need to rally against these cuts together. <br /><br />A Parent Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-9716171422276797962019-05-23T15:28:54.075-07:002019-05-23T15:28:54.075-07:00Mr. Schreck, of course, it's us - the parents ...Mr. Schreck, of course, it's us - the parents and the public - that are the problem. We're just too negative. <br /><br />As for me, I have volunteered in SPS for 20 years. I'm on my third year in one school as a volunteer now and I haven't had kids in SPS for a long time. As well, I "volunteer" to write this blog, go to those meetings and report back. If I hear not-so-good things, I am not going to put a shiny veneer on it. <br /><br />I also know most of the parents DO help in their schools one way or another. The sheer amount of time and money given to the schools shows that. <br /><br />Bellevue and Seattle Schools Districts are VERY different. Of course, it's easier over there. <br /><br />It's an interesting thing how you have appeared out of nowhere on this blog to lecture us all on what we are seeing or doing wrong. Are you a parent? A teacher? Just a Seattle taxpayer? And what is the source of your knowledge base? I have no problem with you having opinions but you seem so certain of your knowledge that I'd like to understand where you acquired it. <br /><br />As for "corrupt" staff, I invite you over to see my latest thread on the Science Adoption. And, when I get the rest of my public disclosure and FOIA request, I have no doubt there will be more. <br /><br />The truth can hurt AND the truth can set you free. Most of life is a double-edged sword. <br /><br />Melissa Westbrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17179994245880629080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-76432113791624595372019-05-23T15:15:18.391-07:002019-05-23T15:15:18.391-07:00@ Dick Schreck,
I think this blog is one of the ...@ Dick Schreck, <br /><br />I think this blog is one of the many things are RIGHT about Seattle Schools. <br /><br />This blog was started when SPS was aggressively attempting to close schools, despite the simple fact that Seattle was the fastest growing city in the US, multiple times. <br /><br />This blog became a place where people all across the district could collaborate and share information. Sure there are plenty of trolls and detractors (this is the internet after all) but there is also lots of sharing of basic information that happens here. <br /><br />Just because very few people agree with your point of view about the science adoption, does not make this blog "the problem." When I first starting posting, very few people agreed with my point of view and my point of view about capacity matters is regularly challenged here. <br /><br />kelliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01322661098626555834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-90084177423353465912019-05-23T15:15:11.093-07:002019-05-23T15:15:11.093-07:00Roosevelt was disproportionally and erroneously ta...<br /><br /><b>Roosevelt was disproportionally and erroneously targeted for budget cuts far beyond the other comprehensive high schools. </b>That reeks of politics. HERE ARE THE RECEIPTS:<br /><br /><br /><br />School - Oct 2018 enrollment - April 2019 post-open enrollment for Sept 2019 - that Sept 2019 # less actual Oct 2018 diff VS Berge PROJECTED diff from her budget<br /><br />Ballard current 1,971 p/o 1,874 (97) vs (256)<br />Garfield current 1,774 p/o 1,712 (62) vs (294)<br />Roosevelt current 1,840 p/o 1,823 <b>(23) vs (321)</b><br /><br />So compared to Berge’s budget difference versus the actual difference, Ballard will have 159 unfunded kids, Garfield will have 232 unfunded kids, but Roosevelt will have 298 unfunded kids. Yup. Roosevelt is getting SCREWED ROYALLY. Basically, the district is saying, “F*ck you, Roosevelt”. Remember, she locked the door and forbid the Board from driving any revisions based on updated post-open enrollment numbers. Berge won’t allow them to try deviate from her budget because that would just be “too hard” (?),she demands those teachers get RIFed. And Juneau said she wanted to first hire back central staff! <br /><br />ROOSEVELT IS LOOSING THE FEWEST STUDENTS BUT ROOSEVELT IS GOING TO LOSE THE MOST DOLLARS BASED ON A CROOKED PROJECTED NUMBER THAT BERGE EXPLOITED TO DRIVE HER POLITICAL BUDGET. Berge cooked up pure fiction against RHS to butcher Roosevelt’s faculty - this has nothing to do with RHS tier (BHS is also tier 4) nor their actual enrollment. This is to punish kids and families living there. <br /><br />So maybe you think, it doesn’t matter, my kid doesn’t go to Roosevelt. But here’s the thing, if Berge and Juneau can do this to Roosevelt, they can and will do it to you next. This kind of political hatchet job that hurts kids is either unacceptable or is acceptable. That’s the real fight. Pick your side carefully, because it could be your kid who is next lined up for the Berge hatchet treatment. Frankly, it shouldn’t matter whose kids are being abused, no kid should be abused. This is why they buried the post open enrollment numbers, Berge, Nielsen and Juneau didn’t want to handover the receipts for their chicanery. <br /><br />dataAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-49317026488515730742019-05-23T15:10:53.492-07:002019-05-23T15:10:53.492-07:00Regarding the comments about Lincoln High School ....Regarding the comments about Lincoln High School ... It should be noted that Lincoln not only meet its year 1 enrollment goal, it also has a very healthy wait list for 9th grade. This means that many families are embracing the school. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />kelliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01322661098626555834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-86668199065506787452019-05-23T15:08:25.039-07:002019-05-23T15:08:25.039-07:00Thank you A Parent for posting the board packet fo...Thank you A Parent for posting the board packet for the capacity work session. Starting on page 70 of that packet, you can find the post open enrollment information. <br /><br />Even a casual examination of the high school numbers just beggers belief. Staff is projecting massive enrollment drops for most high schools between now and Oct 1. Larger drops than any schools has ever experienced, without any reason to support this "sudden rapture of high schools students." <br /><br />At the work session, this was explained by a general fiscal conservative stance and an increase in the Running start enrollment numbers. Both of those explanations are silly. <br /><br />1) Intentionally mis-projecting enrollment is not fiscally conservative. It is intentionally short staffing schools, with the purposed of rehiring later. While this is a dicey strategy when enrollment is growing. It is downright disingenuous when it is based on RIF'ing current staff with the belief that you can re-hire later. <br /><br />2) There has been a significant increase in Running Start enrollment. However, SPS has collected no data on this and therefore it is speculative that the trend will increase. It has already been documented that when high schools are over-crowded, Running Start enrollment increases. In theory, the opening of Lincoln, should also slow down the Running start enrollment. <br /><br /><br />kelliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01322661098626555834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-69803033365737578422019-05-23T14:57:20.340-07:002019-05-23T14:57:20.340-07:00Want to know what’s wrong at SPS? …It’s YOU!
I...Want to know what’s wrong at SPS? …It’s YOU!<br /><br />I have lived in school districts with “very good” reputations and with “bad” reps. The difference was the support and good will of the community. This blog had the same type incompetent and corrupt comments about SPS back in 2014 during the math curriculum adoption, and in 2016, and today during the science adoption. What is the common thread that has not changed? The curriculum is different (math vs science); the SPS staff is different, and most of the board is different. What is the same? This blog and some of the same bloggers. <br /><br />Bellevue schools have an excellent reputation. I could not find an equivalent blog of complaining for Bellevue. I happen to think SPS is a pretty good district, and is moving in the right direction. But this blogs attitude and behavior is dragging on the district and has been for some time. Get involved and volunteer in a positive way if you can.<br />Dick Schreckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02006530728059904626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-27446613608435556982019-05-23T14:55:59.402-07:002019-05-23T14:55:59.402-07:00"Here's the strategy.
Attack the distric..."Here's the strategy.<br /><br />Attack the district and discredit as many staffers as possible. Paint the district as corrupt and incompetent.<br /><br />Attack anyone who wants to change the delivery of ....<br /><br />Call people lots of names.<br /><br />Trot out anecdotes and lists of complaints about mistreatment.<br /><br />Harass anyone who supports a different vision for ... services.<br /><br />Hire some professional internet trolls to do the above while you're sleeping, on vacation or just because it's cheap.<br /><br />Rinse and repeat."<br /><br /><br />quote from Umbellularia on this blog in 2016.Dick Schreckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02006530728059904626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-33550688902240687752019-05-23T14:45:51.510-07:002019-05-23T14:45:51.510-07:00"Lincoln has actively boasted on not offering..."Lincoln has actively boasted on not offering many AP courses because they think they can game the college entrance system with higher adversity scores (they said it out loud at one of the meetings I attended - so our kids won’t be going there)."<br /><br />Uh...the goal should be to broaden opportunities and LOWER the adversity students face! When Yale piloted the College Board dashboard and said it factored into their decisions - well, it could factor into decisions in a number of ways. Do people not think the tool could also be used to select for students having attended schools with lower adversity scores? <br /><br />think aboutitAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-78647688261480013642019-05-23T14:32:25.709-07:002019-05-23T14:32:25.709-07:00It should be noted that the money for the science ...It should be noted that the money for the science adoption was cut from the budget. This was not restored by the Board. <br /><br />However, staff has stated this is the not a problem, because they "found enough money" to cover it. <br /><br />Staff always seems to find enough money to pay for what they want to push, but not enough to cover teachers. <br /><br />- grumpy<br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-38619178629082782322019-05-23T14:27:29.961-07:002019-05-23T14:27:29.961-07:00Start looking at the Downtown Department Budgets t...Start looking at the Downtown Department Budgets to save Teacher jobs.<br /><br />Are these Departments and Positions really critical?:<br /><br />Science Department<br />Math Department<br />Research and Assessment<br />Ed Coaches<br /><br />Make Cuts a 2:1 Priority Decision. Two Central Staff for Every Teacher Cut.<br /><br />Each School should speak up to Save its Teachers. Find the Money for Cuts in the District's Central Staff Budgets. <br /><br />Priorities<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-48477927997491171122019-05-23T14:17:51.334-07:002019-05-23T14:17:51.334-07:00Multi-family and townhouses have already been deve...Multi-family and townhouses have already been developed as Ballard has been densifying as a designated "urban center". Many of my kid's friends moved to townhouses in Ballard from out of state. Many moving to Lincoln are from Queen Anne. Magnolia is still at Ballard as well. My best guess is that enrollment is not skyrocketing as fast in (more expensive) QA. It is not a match for growing baby boom Ballard with more affordable and more townhouse and multi-family housing. Also alot more kids from QA go to Private school as compared to Ballard where they stay public.<br /><br />Kid CityAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-19181626695054789812019-05-23T14:08:06.950-07:002019-05-23T14:08:06.950-07:00@Voteno "Ballard is losing the most kids and...@Voteno "Ballard is losing the most kids and territory to Lincoln" ....Nope not true. Old information Voteno. Ballard neighborhood is booming as an understatement... and has 1874 ENROLLED from their references area for next year. That's almost as many as this year WITH the opening of Lincoln. They are losing LESS kids not more to Lincoln than Roosevelt. <br /><br />Kid City Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-78190090773954723042019-05-23T14:02:04.756-07:002019-05-23T14:02:04.756-07:00The restoration of Levy funds is averting libraria...The restoration of Levy funds is averting librarians being cut and libraries being closed at the larger and middle class majority high schools. <br /><br />Likely the severe cuts at Tier 3 & 4 schools are to avert any cuts due to population shrinking at Tier 1 & 2 schools...but wait didn't Rainier Beach also protest projecting the loss of some teachers as well? Hmmmm <br /><br />Should't there be a baseline of what is to be provided to all SPS high schools? What is with this behind the scenes robin hood behavior...or wait is it even going to lower income schools?<br /><br />A Parent Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-74856918177833053202019-05-23T13:55:08.033-07:002019-05-23T13:55:08.033-07:00 This is exactly what my point is, the $ budget is... This is exactly what my point is, the $ budget is based on a projected enrollment loss of 321 kids from Roosevelt, but in reality, capital is planning for a loss of just 188 RHS kids. BOOM!!!! Busted!!! That is why the portables are staying in place RHS. <br /><br /> That is why the Berge budget is a PURELY political document, not a reality one. And that is the evidence Roosevelt has been politically targeted for a hatchet job by Berge. Berge, with Juneau approval, manipulated the Roosevelt number by 133 students! (321 her budget enrollment drop vs the capital budget drop of 188 students). Huh?!? That is a huge difference, unexplained, and clearly no other high school was targeted by this BIG of an unexplained gaff between the two SPS documents. That’s the smoking gun. SPS are literally talking out of both sides of their mouth at the same time, but saying different things. <br /><br /> Put in perspective, 133 difference/188 likely enrollment drop = 71% OVERSTATEMENT of RHS enrollment drop. That’s the difference between Ballard and Roosevelt and Garfield: Garfield genuinely is going to have the largest enrollment drop (west Seattle kids not showing up, north Seattle kids barred) and Ballard is losing the most kids and territory to Lincoln, yet the district is fixated on penalizing Roosevelt in an inexplicable way even though the RHS had quite hard numbers showing the Roosevelt wasn’t going to experience much of an enrollment drop.<br /><br />133 kids / 29 kids/teacher = 4.6 UNNECESSARY ROOSEVELT TEACHER CUTS!!! That again is a different and disproportional cut than the other schools are lined up for. <br /><br /> That is how hard this district is attacking the kids in Roosevelt. Roosevelt is going to disproportionately be missing almost 5 teachers as compared to Ballard - good luck rehiring teachers and re-casting all those RHS kids’ schedules when in September 2019 the enrollment crystallizes. <br /><br />Because Ballard and Roosevelt do offer a great experience, and there have been a lot of issues at Lincoln, families are finding a way to avoid Lincoln. Perhaps that’s why the district has manipulated Roosevelt so much, they want Roosevelt to sink down so Lincoln doesn’t look so bad? <br /><br />voteNoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-57059628353088153982019-05-23T13:43:41.256-07:002019-05-23T13:43:41.256-07:00The way the district is run does seem pretty anti ...The way the district is run does seem pretty anti teacher. But I think part of the problem might be inept teacher union leadership. We all know that no one in SPS listens to parents or taxpayers. And the teachers were able to get guaranteed recess time for little kids through tough negotiating tactics (sheesh, why was that even necessary? who are these meanies at the district?). But no at the district seems interested in preparing kids to be appealing to colleges. Even while the mayor and the city are giving some of college away for free to everyone. Is the goal just to have 2 years of what would have been high school taken in college? Like, can't finish your 24 credits in high school? Didn't pass math? Don't worry, try again in what used to be community college. It's free! Maybe they had to offer 2 years of associate's college because they new SPS was going to fail to get the students ready for a 4-year college? At any rate, it's sounding a lot like bullshit. My rural high school had less than 500 students and offered 4 world languages AND computer programming AND A.P. classes up the wazoo. Grouchy Parentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-88098281765009870552019-05-23T13:29:53.552-07:002019-05-23T13:29:53.552-07:00Here is the report that references post open enrol...Here is the report that references post open enrollment figures and their projections for Oct 2019. You will see that across the board they are projecting losses in enrollment from each high school across the board. <br /><br />Roosevelt is PROJECTED to lose -188 students and Ballard -148. Garfield is PROJECTED to lose -224 the most out of any high school. This is at least in part due to Lincoln opening, but the loss is not 300 per school no way. The cuts are not proportional to the loss of students at any of these schools. They all are facing larger cuts, not just Roosevelt.<br /><br />Ingraham is projected to lose -139, Cheif Sealth -147 (as much as Ballard!) alot of kids for these smaller schools half of Ballard and Roosevelt's size proportionately, not due AT ALL to losing students to Lincoln. <br /><br />However, even with the loss the overcrowded high schools were so crowded they are still overcrowded. This report states 8 (!) portables will remain at Ballard and 6 at Roosevelt. Ballard currently has 1874 (Capacity 1600) enrolled (April post enrollment) for next year, Roosevelt 1823, Garfield 1712. <br />https://www.seattleschools.org/UserFiles/Servers/Server_543/File/District/Departments/School%20Board/18-19%20agendas/May%208/20190508_PACKET_FINAL.pdf<br /><br />A ParentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com