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The Times has an editorial about the new mandate from the state about a semester-long high school course in civics.Only those students who cover the topic in-depth as part of a more rigorous dual-credit class like AP or IB can avoid taking it.
Interestingly, the course also asks for students to learn the same civics section as is given in the naturalization test for immigrants to become citizens.
The temperature is going up in Kent SD as the Kent teachers union is asking for the resignation of their superintendent, Calvin J. Watts. This is going to be a big story if he doesn't because I had a lengthy conversation with a parent there who has been tracking the story. If you think SPS has communications problems, thank your stars you are not in Kent. Closed door meetings where the Board takes votes, their Board rubberstamping the superintendent's wishes - it's not pretty. There's a lot to unravel there.
What's also weird is that the superintendent would not allow some news groups into a press conference recently. One of them was KIRO tv:
Kent parents and students protested outside the school district office Wednesday from 10 a.m. until well after 6 p.m.Stay tuned.
They’re worried about the 60 teaching positions that will be eliminated through attrition at the end of this school year, and some are calling for the district’s superintendent to be removed.
“I’m really upset with the direction our district is going. It seems like they’re not supporting our teachers,” said Anna Andreski, a Kent parent.
If the City of Seattle really wants to help SPS, they should read the Seattle Times story about homeless students in SPS:
I've seen this firsthand and while schools try very hard, they cannot control what happens in a child's life. The City probably could solve this problem for children in our city - that's a much smaller population than single adults who are homeless - and Mayor Murray said he would. Wonder what Mayor Durkan might be thinking? Oh, that's right - take away family support workers in schools for her Promise program for SPS grads to go to community college. Not sure I think that makes sense.Homeless kids make up 4-8 percent of students at every grade level in Seattle, except the 12th, where they account for 13 percent.
Students without a stable place to live attend almost every public school in Seattle, but some have many more than others." - and have varying levels of support for them, and the educators who serve them.
The only meeting in SPS this week is on Friday; it's the BEX Oversight Committee meeting, from 8:30-10:30 pm at JSCEE.
There are no director community meetings this weekend. I did attend part of the first one for new director DeWolf last night. There was a large contingent of parents/teachers from World School where all is definitely not well. They lost six teachers (of 20) last year and several more are seriously considering leaving. There appears to be a lack of faith in the leadership at the school in Principal Oksana Britsova. You might recall that Ms. Britsova had last been principal at The Center School where there was also some unhappiness about her leadership skills.
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