From SPS School Beat
Here's a link to the SPS School Beat. Seattle Public Schools’ elementary and K-8 schools will be closed from Monday, November 23 through Wednesday, November 25 for Parent-Teacher Conferences. This is the first year that all elementary and K-8 schools will be closed Districtwide for parent-teacher conferences. The new schedule will be less disruptive to student learning while also providing greater consistency and predictability for families. Interesting. I remember how difficult it was with a shortened day but I had no idea that during the entire Thanksgiving week, the elementaries and K-8s will be closed. How do parents feel? Do the parents of middle school kids in K-8s get conferences? Is so, that seems unfair that if you go to a K-8, you get a conference and if you go to middle school you don't. The High School Proficiency Exam (HSPE, formerly the WASL) for Science will be given this year for high school students on one day for 125 minutes. (This from the s...