What do you expect from APS staff (option/neighborhood) on 4/30?
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Anonymous
It's not just one poster you keep telling off. You are a jerk. It's not unreasonable for parents to expect the information that they've been promised on the date they've been promised. We have a committee waiting for it. They missed a deadline. They screwed up. Stop making excuses for them. |
Anonymous
The community feedback period is only scheduled through next Thursday, so it actually matters a lot if we get it yesterday vs. next week, especially if they drop another unexpected bombshell and people are scrambling to figure out the implications and how they should respond. |
Anonymous
I'm not hysterical. I have been around APS long enough to know this is a marathon and not a sprint. But, they either have some agenda they aren't disclosing or are making it up as they go along. Either way, I don't want my kid sitting in a school with 20 trailers because APS decided to take away a neighborhood school near me. I'm not one of these people worried about my particular school. I see how many homes are being torn down around me and being replaced with ones that will certainly house kids. The NW Quadrant continues to see a tremendous growth in the K-5 age group because of this. Even once Reed opens, there will be plenty of kids to fill all of the neighborhood seats and then some. So you keep worrying about people's hysteria and we will let you know when APS blindsides you. |
Anonymous
Sounds like a lot of drama for having to wait a few extra hours for some analysis document. 
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Anonymous
They missed a deadline. It's not the f*cking end of the world. You will get it and you will get a chance to provide feedback. |
Anonymous
If you're so breezy and chill, what are you even doing here? |
Anonymous
You will get it and you will be able to provide feedback. Why do you need so much extra time - getting t-shirts printed? |
Anonymous
You know, you really need a better PR team. For real. |
Anonymous
Right now at this moment, I'm laughing at the neurotic b*tches who can't even deal with some document being delayed a day. When the analysis comes out I will review it and provide feedback. Until then... |
Anonymous
I guess so. I don't even have one at all right now. Better get on that... |
Anonymous
| Instead of worrying about losing an established school, you all should be lobbying for the Sb to change its decision to make reed a neighborhood school. As an option school, it would draw primarily from the surrounding neighborhood bc no one really far away will send their kid there. Make it an el school like Campbell. You all are in a tizzy because of reed. |
Anonymous
Okay. Well, check back in when they announce their surprise and your school is on the list! |
Anonymous
My kid's school is on the list. |
Anonymous
Yup, here we are fighting over scraps while tear downs add kids in the more suburban parts of the county and the board adds density and committed affordable housing - which is known to produce tons of kids, though they pretend it doesn't - in the more urban parts of the county. By the time Reed comes online we will still be an elementary school short. |
Anonymous
DP. I would agree with you if it was just this one incident, but it's not. It's that the SB set a very compressed time period for this process (only two weeks between initial analysis and final recommendation), which suggested they weren't looking to make radical changes. Then the staff gives us an analysis suggesting some potentially radical changes, and it was riddled with substantive errors that left some feeling like the staff was working from a different agenda and that the analysis was just distraction. Some of those errors were fixed but not all, and in the meantime information leaked out at a staff open office hour here, a PTA meeting there, leaving people unsure of what was official position and what was just a possibility or baseless speculation. The timeline and process then change radically, but the official communication has been very poor and lots of people aren't aware that the presentation has been significantly revised and that the whole process has changed. All we know now is that the process if going to be a lot longer with a lot more moving parts in it, so maybe they really are going to make radical changes that we need to process and respond to. (And in the meantime, a whole bunch of rising kindergarten parents who just got their option lottery results are having to make decisions about which school to send their kids to without knowing where some of those schools might be in two or three years, which isn't a great situation for them.) Meanwhile, the staff is lobbing hand grenades into the CIP process with thing like possibly moving high school seats out of the Ed Center after only two years and then moving in elementary seats instead of middle school seats, which is creating further distrust about what they're doing. And then, when we're finally supposed to get the revised analysis, to see what's been rumor and what's been fact, they play games with it, holding off until SB open office hours to post it and then not having their IT staff around to fix their connectivity problems so it ends up delayed (assuming they have finished it and this isn't just a lie to give them cover). If they were going to hold off until that late in the day, they should have just told us at the beginning that they were going to release it on May 1 instead and planned to put it out this morning instead of knowingly leaving everyone checking their email and the website all day to see if it's up yet. It was disrespectful and disingenuous, but now they expect us to just trust them and have faith in their judgment, when at every turn they've shown us they cannot manage this process competently. Nope, not happening. |