100+ students protested this morning in front of WMS, protest lasted well into 1st period.
All local TV stations and news were present, interviewing students. Principal stayed inside, despite student chants of "come outside!" Parents receiving communication from the district implying that the District was talking to and coaching her on how to build community engagement etc, SOME schedules have been resolved but we anticipate that there will continue to be scheduling bumps that will disrupt.
Parent concern: Massive changes being made with 0 communication or engagement.
Students bigger concern: They want their voices to be heard and to be part of the solution to improve the school - and they don't want their academic lives to be continuously upended.
Kids did a great job organizing and staging a protest - and communicating w the media!
A little late unfortunately for me. And no email from the school either for my daughter with a complete schedule overhaul. Does anyone know who organized this eventand is there a position statement on this the HCS AC can share?
Robert Njegovan email me at Robertnappac - at - gmail
No the District has no say as to the activities of the HCS AC. It is always been a volunteer group with a dotted line to the superintendent. More recently, it has been a checked box for the district staff on their submission to OSPI for "family engagement."
Having served on the committee for over 10 years we always functioned as an independent groupW which drove our advocacy for best practices.
That said, we are not on firm organizational ground right now and it is affecting our response to these detrimental building changes.
Can you explain what you mean by "not on firm organizational ground"? How can HC families help ensure HC voices are at the table in district decisionmaking? Also, any update on the HC trajectory now that Michael Tolley is no longer there, as my understanding is he was the one pushing to dismantle HC?
We haven't had open meetings this school year and when issues like this scheduling debacle happen we have a muted response. We are looking for new members to join the committee and will start having regular meetings (if interested please email me at Robertnappac - at - gmail). I had the same sense that it was Michael Tolley pushing forward a homogenizing of our schools. But Nyland and now Juneau seem more than willing to let administrators make disruptive changes: like dropping world language classes, stuffing chemistry classes to unsafe levels and now mid-year class changes.
I would say the advocacy that has been successful has been our interactions with the Board members urging to maintain some stability within the program.
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"Disappointing" seems to mild a descriptor.
100+ students protested this morning in front of WMS, protest lasted well into 1st period.
All local TV stations and news were present, interviewing students. Principal stayed inside, despite student chants of "come outside!" Parents receiving communication from the district implying that the District was talking to and coaching her on how to build community engagement etc, SOME schedules have been resolved but we anticipate that there will continue to be scheduling bumps that will disrupt.
Parent concern: Massive changes being made with 0 communication or engagement.
Students bigger concern: They want their voices to be heard and to be part of the solution to improve the school - and they don't want their academic lives to be continuously upended.
Kids did a great job organizing and staging a protest - and communicating w the media!
A little late unfortunately for me. And no email from the school either for my daughter with a complete schedule overhaul. Does anyone know who organized this eventand is there a position statement on this the HCS AC can share?
Robert Njegovan
email me at Robertnappac - at - gmail
Isn't the HCS-AC on district imposed hiatus?
No the District has no say as to the activities of the HCS AC. It is always been a volunteer group with a dotted line to the superintendent. More recently, it has been a checked box for the district staff on their submission to OSPI for "family engagement."
Having served on the committee for over 10 years we always functioned as an independent groupW which drove our advocacy for best practices.
That said, we are not on firm organizational ground right now and it is affecting our response to these detrimental building changes.
Robert
Hi Robert,
Can you explain what you mean by "not on firm organizational ground"? How can HC families help ensure HC voices are at the table in district decisionmaking? Also, any update on the HC trajectory now that Michael Tolley is no longer there, as my understanding is he was the one pushing to dismantle HC?
Concerned parent
We haven't had open meetings this school year and when issues like this scheduling debacle happen we have a muted response. We are looking for new members to join the committee and will start having regular meetings (if interested please email me at Robertnappac - at - gmail). I had the same sense that it was Michael Tolley pushing forward a homogenizing of our schools. But Nyland and now Juneau seem more than willing to let administrators make disruptive changes: like dropping world language classes, stuffing chemistry classes to unsafe levels and now mid-year class changes.
I would say the advocacy that has been successful has been our interactions with the Board members urging to maintain some stability within the program.
Robert
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