West Seattle's Middle College Program: What Happened?
As you may have heard, the district has, quite quickly and quietly, decided to close the West Seattle campus of the Middle College High School program at High Point. The district says that the enrollment is down. Seniors will finish there but the other students will have to find someplace else to go. Programs like Middle College are the ones that catch the drop-outs, the at-risk kids and the kids who need something different to stay in school. In short, programs like Middle College save lives. Our friends at the West Seattle blog have a great wrap-up of the story. Apparently, the staff is not prepared to go down without defending their campus. As the West Seattle blog reminds us, this program was kicked off of the South Seattle Community College campus in spring of 2012. It then got moved to Neighborhood House's High Point Center. The district doesn't have anything up at the website nor has there been any news release. ...