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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can a current Watkins parent speak to the effeciveness and composition of the PTO? And is it made up of inboundary parents, or OOB parents?[/quote]

Most of the PTO is comprised of in-boundary parents.  However, current president and many on the board are overly friendly with Clemens.  This tends to cloud their judgement and their ability to evaluate the current state of affairs at Watkins.  There was little or no help from them last year regarding the mass exodus of teachers and students.  PTO president gets everything he wants for his children.  Rest of the school can RIP.[/quote]

The sheer fact that the Cluster has a PTA not a PTO should discredit this post. What's outlined is plain weird and has nothing to do with the reality. The Cluster PTA, just as at any school, is headed up by many different but all thoughtful voices.[/quote]

As a point pf clarification -[b] nearly the entire governing structure for the Cluster PTA is IB to LT (not Watkins)[/b]. For some reason they shun their own IB ES school, which performs better than Watkins.

If Watkins is getting a Dean of Students, does that mean it went Title 1?[/quote]

That may be true for the current leadership (last 2 year terms) but that isn't accurate over a longer horizon, and it is somewhat misleading. When the PTA president was first sending his kids to school in Peabody PK4, maybe PS3, they were IB for the Cluster because the were IB for Stuart Hobson; the IB for SH stopped conferring IB for Peabody/Watkins about 6-7 years ago, I think. They continued with the Cluster. I think that is also the same for 1 or 2 others. When I was on the board, it was about 60% IB, 40% OOB among leadership and that was pretty much the ratio over the last 8 years that I've been involved in the Cluster. I am IB for Peabody/Watkins.[/quote]

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