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Opening with some sad news; a fifth grader in killed himself this week. Please talk to your kids about their stresses and offer them ways to defuse those. From KIRO-7 tv:"Terminal Park Families, with deep sadness we send this letter to inform you of a recent tragedy,” Maegan Hall Both read to us in her living room in Auburn.
"One of our fifth-grade students passed away Friday, May 18th. With respect to the privacy of the family we are not sharing further details at this time."
But Maegan -- whose 11-year-old daughter, Bridget, is also in the fifth grade at that Auburn school-- very quickly learned the death was a suicide.
Roberson is the counselor at another elementary in the Auburn School District and part of a crisis team that goes to any of the district's schools when there is a tragedy. Roberson says this tragedy necessitates opening what can be an uncomfortable dialogue between parents and kids.From district Communications:
"Instead of focusing so much on the why and the how, we want to focus on how that makes us feel -- with the little kids, make sure that they know every emotion is normal,” Roberson said.
U.S. News & World Report has recognized several Seattle Public Schools high schools among the top schools in Washington state in their annual report.The highest ranking Washington State school nationally is the International School in Bellevue.
According to U.S. News & World Report, Roosevelt High School ranks #7 (#320 in national rankings), Garfield High School ranks #10 (#706 in national rankings) and Ballard High School ranks #15 (#1118 in national rankings).
Among the top 100 high schools in Washington, Nathan Hale High School ranks 35th, Franklin High School ranks 41st, Cleveland STEM High School ranks 47th and The Center School ranked 49th.
To note, one charter group - BASIS - has the largest number of top-ranked high schools in the country. I'll have to write about this group sometime as BASIS is seen as a more competitive charter school but their demographics don't follow their districts.
Two items coming out from the Department of Education via Secretary DeVos:
- Under Trump's reign, he wants schools to deny services to undocumented students. OSPI has fired back saying our state's constitution provides for serving ALL students within our borders. It doesn't say anything about citizenship.
From Superintendent Rykdal's press release:
Our students who are undocumented and their families are vital members of our schools and communities. Our schools should be safe places, focused on learning and helping students reach their highest ideals. Schools should never serve as a channel for the federal government to make students feel unsafe.
Section I of our state Constitution is very clear in stating that our public schools must serve every single student who resides within our state’s borders:
“It is the paramount duty of the state to make ample provision for the education of all children residing within its borders, without distinction or preference on account of race, color, caste, or sex.”Additionally, the U.S. Supreme Court made it clear in Plyler v. Doe (1982) that all children in the United States – including those who are undocumented – are entitled to a free public education.
- DeVos is holding to her "you can't make me visit public schools" tour when she visited NYC. Did she go to a traditional public school? No. A charter school? No. From the NY Times:
Instead, Ms. DeVos visited two Orthodox Jewish schools, and offered her strongest comments to date in support of public funding for religious schools in a meeting with Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan and other Catholic dignitaries.So choice is now being framed as "a God-given freedom?"
“I know very well there are powerful interests that want to deprive families their God-given freedom,” to choose private schools, she told the cardinal and the Alfred E. Smith Foundation, which supports Catholic charities, on Wednesday morning, according to her prepared remarks. “I know that those sycophants of ‘the system’ have kept legislators here from enacting a common-sense program that would open options to thousands of kids in need.”
Saturday director community meetings:
Director Patu from 9:30-11:00 am at Raconteur, 5041 Wilson Ave S
President Harris from 3:00-5:00 pm at Delridge Branch Library, 5423 Delridge Way SW
What's on your mind?
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