SSFS Will Stay Open

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hear you. It’s an understandable position.

Ousting the entire board means no continuity, no understanding of how they landed in such dire straits, and no awareness of things that have been tried before.

That board should be ashamed of themselves. There probably are a couple of people that are worth keeping around in an advisory position for that continuity. But this is a massive, massive failure that cannot be tolerated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hear you. It’s an understandable position.

Ousting the entire board means no continuity, no understanding of how they landed in such dire straits, and no awareness of things that have been tried before.

That board should be ashamed of themselves. There probably are a couple of people that are worth keeping around in an advisory position for that continuity. But this is a massive, massive failure that cannot be tolerated.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hear you. It’s an understandable position.

Ousting the entire board means no continuity, no understanding of how they landed in such dire straits, and no awareness of things that have been tried before.

That board should be ashamed of themselves. There probably are a couple of people that are worth keeping around in an advisory position for that continuity. But this is a massive, massive failure that cannot be tolerated.

Yes! And to that end, I believe that the only reason they are even entertaining the effort of the coalition is to stay open just one more year (not 3) to do what they morally and ethically should have done all along - give the staff and the families time to find another school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hear you. It’s an understandable position.

Ousting the entire board means no continuity, no understanding of how they landed in such dire straits, and no awareness of things that have been tried before.

That board should be ashamed of themselves. There probably are a couple of people that are worth keeping around in an advisory position for that continuity. But this is a massive, massive failure that cannot be tolerated.

Yes! And to that end, I believe that the only reason they are even entertaining the effort of the coalition is to stay open just one more year (not 3) to do what they morally and ethically should have done all along - give the staff and the families time to find another school.

I don’t know if it will be viable after three years (though I hope so) but I do know that they are not lying and actually intending to be open one year. That’s simply not true and you should throw accusations like that around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hear you. It’s an understandable position.

Ousting the entire board means no continuity, no understanding of how they landed in such dire straits, and no awareness of things that have been tried before.

That board should be ashamed of themselves. There probably are a couple of people that are worth keeping around in an advisory position for that continuity. But this is a massive, massive failure that cannot be tolerated.

Yes! And to that end, I believe that the only reason they are even entertaining the effort of the coalition is to stay open just one more year (not 3) to do what they morally and ethically should have done all along - give the staff and the families time to find another school.

I don’t know if it will be viable after three years (though I hope so) but I do know that they are not lying and actually intending to be open one year. That’s simply not true and you should throw accusations like that around.

If you or the school don't want accusations thrown around then there should be more transparency. There hasn't been transparency for a long time. When left in the dark, the accusations and assumptions fly. That's for the school to fix, not for me or anyone else to temper.

[Anonymous]

Did anyone go to the outplacement fair last night? How was the turnout?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone go to the outplacement fair last night? How was the turnout?

We were there. It was not well attended. We saw a few other families milling around, looked like mostly upper schoolers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone go to the outplacement fair last night? How was the turnout?

We were there. It was not well attended. We saw a few other families milling around, looked like mostly upper schoolers.

That would be promising for the school wouldn’t it? If no one is interested in leaving?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hear you. It’s an understandable position.

Ousting the entire board means no continuity, no understanding of how they landed in such dire straits, and no awareness of things that have been tried before.

That board should be ashamed of themselves. There probably are a couple of people that are worth keeping around in an advisory position for that continuity. But this is a massive, massive failure that cannot be tolerated.

+100

[Anonymous]

The whole thing with the BOT is perplexing to me. Presumably all this has been going on for years. Financial problems getting further into debt, potentially bad admin hires, but everything gets by. Then again presumably they start reviewing the finances in the fall, let the cfo go (which can only mean bad things were discovered) spend almost the full school year, trying to find a solution. Not a peep to anyone that shy of these struggles exist, suddenly bombshell and all it takes is a band of volunteers 7 days to turn everything around. Something doesn’t add up. No one can be that inept. Was the board just afraid to take any measures to fix things? Did they know they just needed to ask community assistance but were held back from asking for some reason?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone go to the outplacement fair last night? How was the turnout?

We were there. It was not well attended. We saw a few other families milling around, looked like mostly upper schoolers.

That would be promising for the school wouldn’t it? If no one is interested in leaving?

I don’t think you can read into it either way. Everyone started frantically calling other options last week, other schools already have held their own info sessions, etc. — so likely, families already have met with the same people who were going to be at the fair. (But I think it was thoughtful to host regardless!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The whole thing with the BOT is perplexing to me. Presumably all this has been going on for years. Financial problems getting further into debt, potentially bad admin hires, but everything gets by. Then again presumably they start reviewing the finances in the fall, let the cfo go (which can only mean bad things were discovered) spend almost the full school year, trying to find a solution. Not a peep to anyone that shy of these struggles exist, suddenly bombshell and all it takes is a band of volunteers 7 days to turn everything around. Something doesn’t add up. No one can be that inept. Was the board just afraid to take any measures to fix things? Did they know they just needed to ask community assistance but were held back from asking for some reason?

It's very suspect. Almost like someone convinced them they should develop the land another way.

[Anonymous]

Did anything new come out of the meeting yesterday evening?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole thing with the BOT is perplexing to me. Presumably all this has been going on for years. Financial problems getting further into debt, potentially bad admin hires, but everything gets by. Then again presumably they start reviewing the finances in the fall, let the cfo go (which can only mean bad things were discovered) spend almost the full school year, trying to find a solution. Not a peep to anyone that shy of these struggles exist, suddenly bombshell and all it takes is a band of volunteers 7 days to turn everything around. Something doesn’t add up. No one can be that inept. Was the board just afraid to take any measures to fix things? Did they know they just needed to ask community assistance but were held back from asking for some reason?

It's very suspect. Almost like someone convinced them they should develop the land another way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole thing with the BOT is perplexing to me. Presumably all this has been going on for years. Financial problems getting further into debt, potentially bad admin hires, but everything gets by. Then again presumably they start reviewing the finances in the fall, let the cfo go (which can only mean bad things were discovered) spend almost the full school year, trying to find a solution. Not a peep to anyone that shy of these struggles exist, suddenly bombshell and all it takes is a band of volunteers 7 days to turn everything around. Something doesn’t add up. No one can be that inept. Was the board just afraid to take any measures to fix things? Did they know they just needed to ask community assistance but were held back from asking for some reason?

It's very suspect. Almost like someone convinced them they should develop the land another way.

This is my question too. Who wants that land and made it seem to the BOT that closure was best?