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Anonymous
| I honestly don't understand the complaints over a FREE shirt. If you had paid for the event and gotten an old shirt, fine. But you didn't. You all would rather shirts be thrown away? You wear shirts with dates even after the year is over anyway. Use it to sleep in or clean in if you don't want to wear it out, or politely decline. It's still a perfectly useable shirt. |
Anonymous
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They announced today the lower school counselor quit after just starting this September…something about a long commute.
Also, the farmer on faculty and his wife are moving to another state next month. Is this interesting to anyone? |
Anonymous
I understand it’s a free shirt but the issue is the optics around it. This isn’t some kids lemonade stand where we applaud effort. Businesses should be professional and it reflects on their image. This is a 40K school at the years first impression community event, handing out what is clearly a mistake is just embarrassing for the school even if they had markers to “fix” it. Any number of companies give out freebies as marketing. But if they are obviously marked wrong, customers will not be impressed. Simple as that. A better use would actually be just giving them out to employee families or donating them through some kind of community service project. Put them to good use - just not to market the school/welcome families. That just seems unprofessional and cheap. |
Anonymous
Oh no nothing surprising there 
And don’t down play it as “farmer and his wife”. Call it what it really is - The DIRECTOR of COMMUNICATIONS and her husband 🤣 |
Anonymous
This comment would be so much better if you weren’t misgendering them. |
Anonymous
| must be a comment by someone who didn't get the actual email |
Anonymous
| I did not see the announcement, I was just going off the wording of the original posting. The only point being made that the loss of the director of communications is bigger than the loss of the farmer for the school. |
Anonymous
Are you a parent, or associated with the school in some way? This point is pretty antithetical to Quaker ideology…They are both important members of the community, and a loss for the school. |
Anonymous
| I think you are reading way too much into it. Of course they are both part of the community but the director of communication surely has more responsibilities across all the divisions then the farmer? Matter of fact they’ve been without a farmer before since DM is pretty new. But from weekly newsletters, to advertising events, to maintaining all kinds of communication flows, everyone depends on the directory of marcom in a way that isn’t the case with the farmer. Purely from a school business perspective. Not talking about their value as humans or anything else here. |
Anonymous
| I would also expect the director of marcom to be paid a higher salary than the farm educator, which also seems like would effect the school differently as well or are you saying it’s also not quakerly to have different positions have different pay? |
Anonymous
| Does anyone have access to the 3rd grade curriculum? I'm worried math isn't really being taught in 3rd grade--maybe it'll pick up further into the year? Right now they're working on how to read graphs, with a one bar graph for homework. However, my child is working on 3rd and 4th grade level math in workbooks we have at home (completing multi-step equations using addition, subtraction, multiplication and fractions). Child says the math and graphs are "too easy" and not challenging enough. (Says they're only doing basic addition, very little subtraction, no multiplication and no fractions). Is this the standard math program for 3rd grade at SSFS? It is my understanding that 3rd grade math should include addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, and measurements. |
Anonymous
This is a question for the teacher and the Head of LS…or even IHOS since she’s in charge of curriculum setting. |
Anonymous
I know it's not the same division but we were really frustrated with the US. My child is by no means a genius. But he'd barely had any hw, I never saw him study and he was getting 100% and bonus points on everything with literally no effort. i saw that even the "advanced" math section left him with only 10 minutes of work to do, and the rest of the time he was working on other subject assignments. This was not better in other classes either. The level of effort he put in was negligent. Due to a family issue he had to miss almost 3 weeks of school, I was worried he'd fall behind. But he came back, "made up" the missed work in 2 days and continued with his 100% grades. The way they gave extensions on everything just made it a joke. You could ask for an extension on anything for any reason (not just approved and valid reasons like illness, but literally "I couldnt get this done, can I have till next week?" "Sure". I am not sure how this teaches them how to time manage and actually meet real deadlines. Post pandemic the US got rid of midterms and finals, unit assessments required no effort to get As. There was a push to eliminate APs and the number of APs offered are not as many as other schools. Everything seemed to cater to kids who just wanted to coast and get by. After 2 years of that, we pulled him out and now in his new school, I see him actually studying! And getting Bs. Yeah, I am happy he's getting B's on tests, because it means he is having to work at it, as it should be. Maybe that's not what everyone is looking for. But if your kid can and wants to push himself, this is really frustrating. I am happy we left, I feel like my kid is getting challenged as he should be. |
Anonymous
We experienced this as well. My 3rd grader last year didn’t learn what I thought she should. We transferred to a different school for 4th this year and she is behind. New school is helping her catch up. |
Anonymous
It's half way through Q1. Take a breath. |