Huge Amount of Useful Information
But first, huge thanks to parent Eric Artzt and his fine website where he has gathered a lot of SPS data useful to parents. It's at Seattle School Facts . Thank you to our reader, Owlhouse, for posting this elsewhere. I wanted it to be front and center here. Second, I had followed a link about a petition to keep siblings together and found this website , Keep Our Kids Together . They have gathered data together about siblings that I think should inform the Board's discussions on this issue. They discuss the so-called "sibling tail" issue which is the concern by the district that if there is unlimited grandfathering of siblings, those siblings would hang on in a non-attendance school (thereby creating the "tail") for years and undermining the neighborhood schools goal of the SAP. I think they make some very good points about why the "tail" wouldn't be as affective as the district thinks. There is also a document that I received at the Ecks...