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Who Will Win?
Betcha thought I meant the school board races but no.Primarily the question is will Superintendent Juneau win on her full-court press to break apart HCC. (And she played college basketball so I'll assume she's good at it.)
To that end she has a "who me?" impassioned op-ed at the Seattle Times about the need to change HCC.
You can read the whole thing but here's what my comment was at the Times:
How handy that the Times had room for this timely op-ed. Clearly, the Superintendent has great passion on this topic. However, what she leaves out is telling.
Let's examine her thoughts:"When student demographics in any educational service are disproportionate, we must examine our institutional structures to figure out why."She could have changed the testing mechanism last year and didn't. She could have directed staff to increase and try new kinds of community outreach. Speaker after speaker, people of color, at Board meetings have stated that they know nothing about the program. Who's job is that? Superintendent Juneau."For 17 months, an Advanced Learning Taskforce has been meeting to explore possible solutions to increase diverse representation. Three weeks ago, initial policy recommendations were presented to the School Board. Since then, there’s been confusion about the implications and misinformation about the recommended changes."Key word? Initial. The Task Force has not completed their work and yet the Superintendent is trying to push thru early recommendations. Why is that? There's no confusion - she needs to wait for the Task Force to finish their work."Under a new model, neighborhood schools would be equipped and supported to identify and serve most of our advanced and gifted students where the cultural context of students and their families is taken into account and honored."One, the district had allegedly been doing this for years in a system called Advanced Learning Opportunities (ALOs) that were supposed to be how each and every school provides for ANY student that wanted more rigor, including highly capable students. Guess what? Didn't happen.
Two, the Superintendent wants to roll this out next school year and where's the plan for this? Will all 100 schools have their own plan? Where is the professional development needed for teachers to teach across a wider spectrum of students? The resources? And, most of all, where is the budget for this work for each and every school?"However, at every turn, I find that in Seattle, we struggle to live those championed values. I am unwilling to accept this."You know what parents and communities will not accept? Undermining process. Trying to ignore Board policies for oversight. NOT listening to ALL parents.
Juneau could do herself a favor and actually listen to parents and not try to shame them. They didn't set up this program; the district did. The state mandates services for identified highly capable students and if the Superintendent wants to do this in each school, then she needs a clear plan with resources and funding.
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