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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know, I think some of you are being pretty unfair about the school. I wasn’t a fan of the previous principal either but it’s a great school. Some of this conversation about demographics changing leading to the quality of the school declining makes me uncomfortable, and I agree with PP that the demographics aren’t changing all that much anyway. What you may have read as a loss of community feeling is more like the school has become less driven by parent cliques. [b]It might have felt good if you were in that clique community, but as a parent of a special needs child we saw all the ways that exclusion results from clique behavior[/b].[/quote]

If anything I am an outsider and not part one of the cliques at all. That’s not what I mean by community. The school used to host many events and, imo, felt more open and welcoming.  When B was a principal, the school was open to parents, there were lots of classroom events. You got to know other parents, you got to know teachers and staff. I thought it was really nice. Then z became principal and completely shut the school down to all parents. I understood where they were coming from from a security point, but that was the beginning of the end of the community feel. S has maintained a closed environment.

With my oldest, we were able to become acquaintances, even just a friendly, hello wave, with the parents in his grade. We would see people at the store, or at the library and could have a friendly smile. It helped build a sense of community for me. Same with my second, though once the school was shut down, it became much more difficult to build that same rapport with other families. Now with my third child, I don’t have the slightest clue who parents are. You meet people through sports but it’s not the same.

In a nutshell, I would say the school used to be a community but it’s now just an institution.

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