Seattle Schools Community Forum

Aw, dude, you have GOT to start reading the Friday Memos . They are full of juicy, juicy tidbits. This week's edition is full of tap dancing lies and deceptions. It's wonderful.

Part Two from Kellie LaRue and Meg Diaz.   There will be an update at the end by me provided by Garfield staff and PTSA. Garfield High School Garfield High School is still slated to lose a teacher. District administration says Garfield’s enrollment is under projections, and the building is overstaffed. As of Curriculum Night, the Garfield community was under the impression that they were comfortably over projections. There are a lot of conflicting and confusing numbers. Since this is a long post, I’m going to tell you my conclusions right away. I think district administration made a mistake. It’s likely they made more than one mistake. I came to this conclusion after examining the (sparse) enrollment data available on the SPS and OSPI websites. I thought that if the district’s other enrollment data was consistent and normal, the counting difference was probably a mistake on Garfield’s part. SPS enrollment data is riddled with anomalies, conflicts and incons...

A bit of confusion all around (and you could see this from the Superintendent's letter).  What process is happening?  I think recounting using the Running Start students eligible to be counted.  Or something else?  The GHS PTSA sums it up (bold mine):