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Director DeWolf Speaks
There's an interview at the Capitol Hill Blog with Director Zachary DeWolf and it's so him. (Also, I have to laugh at how both he and the Superintendent like to have me as "she who will not be named" and call me "a blogger."And hey! he's writing a children's book.
I'll let you read the piece (hoping that parents in his region don't roll their eyes too much as he seems to think all is well) but here's my comment.
Hi, Melissa Westbrook here from the Seattle Schools Community Forum.
Was my editorial on DeWolf's candidacy for City Council "searing?" I think it was blunt and to the point. I also said some nice things about him AND defended him when a PAC was attacking him. It's called being fair.
I don't know his work on the Seattle School Board? Actually, I do because I'm the resident expert in this city on Seattle Public Schools.
“There were a couple of schools where the school leader wasn’t a good match or a good fit for that school community,”
Well, there's an understatement. The principal at Washington Middle School flipped the table for that school to the point where an investigation showed she had treated an African-American Special Education student very wrongly. She then got officially demoted, via a letter from the Superintendent, to assistant principal. However, she is now a full principal at another school and got that demotion rescinded. And the Superintendent is trying to put a new STEM program into WMS with near-zero public input.
Does DeWolf have anything to say for that?
Ah, Ethnic Studies. Well, I have written the Board several times about the head of Ethnic Studies. A well-education woman but with a pitbull attitude. She admits that the Superintendent has forbidden her to directly contract either the Super or the Board. One-third of principals don't answer her emails about the program.
Is DeWolf aware of these roadblocks to Ethnic Studies?
I have to smile at the "community meetings" section of this piece. DeWolf is piggybacking on the hard work that other directors have to do in order to set up these meetings. And the ones with other directors are in those directors' regions, not DeWolf. I have to wonder if this year DeWolf breaks his personal record of two whole community meetings in one year (most directors have two a month for the school year).
Fingers crossed.
DeWolf does care a great deal about issues like dress code and green buildings. And those are worthy concerns.
But, operationally, the district is not doing well. Last week a school bus with two preschoolers in it hit a car. The moms of those children found out but not from the district.
Since the start of school, the cafeterias have not had the food advertised. Staff at some school cafeterias traded food. The new head of Nutrition Services says that he wants fresh, healthy food for the students and said to KUOW that it's coming...in November.
The district's predictions for nearly all high schools were off and now the district is scrambling for new teachers.
It's those kind of bread-and-butter issues that need to be addressed sooner rather than later. So where is DeWolf?
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