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Writing to the Board
School will resume again on Monday the 7th.I have been writing to the Board on several issues, trying to get clarity (and some traction) on several issues.
Here are the topics I have written to them about:
- science curriculum adoption. It has been handled poorly and without complete transparency and without real input from teachers. I believe they should rein it in until the district shows they can do better.
- Advanced Learning. While I appreciate the amount of work to do, especially given the new state mandate, it feels like a snail's pace.
I reported this in 2017:
Burke said that they had to take on race and socio-economics as part of the discussion. He said they wanted to engage the community respectfully and hoped "the community will help us and be patient and understanding and solution-focused."
For all the moaning about inequity, I find it quite odd that for both the Board and the Superintendent there appears to be no urgency to this work. Almost as if it's useful to continue allowing the program to play out the way it has.
I also made sure that they knew this kind of thing is going on in AL:
Stephen Martin got a request from Thurgood Marshall parent, Devin Bruckner. She is on their Equity Team that seems to have quite an influence on Mr. Martin. I note that he answered multiple questions for her in a very timely manner. I have to wonder if all parents get that level of care.But I also intend to write to the Board about the Strategic Plan - has the committee for it been expanded? When are the community meetings?
More to the point, Bruckner, had created a flyer about AL to hand out at community fairs. This was not generated by the district. It has Bruckner's email to contact and she is not employed by the district.
Her request to him? Could he translate into a couple of languages? Oh and make copies for her? And he did.
I can tell you as a former co-president of a PTA that I would have LOVED to be able to call on the district to translate for me and make copies of info for parents for free. But I never knew it was an option.
Do let me know how I can tell other parents/groups to access this service as the Race and Equity group at Thurgood Marshall has done. I would be glad to publicize it on my blog.
Attention needs to be paid to these events.
Lastly, I have found and also received more information on the Check Yourself survey being used at several middle schools. I plan on once again going to the Board to get this action suspended.
It appears that the district gave permission - back in 2002 when my own son was in middle school - to be part of UW research on middle schools students.
It is an ongoing project and is a 17-year-longitudinal study. SPS said yes but said that middle school principals had to agree. Principals at Mercer and Washington said no but the remaining four schools - Eckstein, Meany, Aki Kurose and Hamilton - their principals all said yes.
And, instead of treating it like a formal study which, as the principal investigator said would have involved “intimidating parental consent” for that — they instead told parents it would be like an “extra curricular activity” and therefore the consent would be much easier to obtain.
I urge you - whatever your issue - to write to the Board. You might mention that the levies are coming up in February and it troubles you that so many issues of concern to parents seem to get little attention.
spsdirectors@seattleschools.org (just the Board members)
schoolboard@seattleschools.org (the Board AND all senior management)
thus Article Writing to the Board
that is all articles Writing to the Board This time, hopefully can provide benefits to all of you. Okay, see you in another article posting.
You now read the article Writing to the Board with the link address https://onechildsmart.blogspot.com/2019/01/writing-to-board.html
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