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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child is in PK, so maybe there's a lot of information that I'm missing, and maybe I'm also seeing things through rose-colored glasses because I'd like my child to be able to thrive at the school.  Those disclaimers aside, I feel optimistic about possibilities for change.  At Monday's meeting and in follow-ups on the listserv, I feel that the administration was put on the spot about this issue, and maybe that will provide a strong incentive for change.  So far I haven't heard many parents saying that this isn't a problem the school or PA shouldn't be addressing.  If a change is going to happen, mightn't this be what the first steps would look like?

(Re the principal's absence:  bullying was not on the agenda, but someone from the administration brought it up.  She may have expected to be able to make a few remarks and then move on to the next update, but several parents seized the occasion to speak up.  So perhaps the principal was led to believe that only an announcement would be made about the issue.  Again, maybe I'm just being a naive PK parent...)  [/quote]

Agreed. I also didn't know that bullying was this big an issue. Now that the parents are engaged and united the administration will have to step it up (they're not doing nothing, just not enough). It's worth noting that this also speaks to a problem about the lack of clarity regarding what the ED and principal are each supposed to do. Maybe this will change when the ED shifts her focus to the middle school. Finally, you wouldn't know it from this thread but things generally seem to be going well at the school. The addition is open and beautiful, there's a new playing field out back, drop off and pick up are smoother, and the new PA leadership is very responsive.[/quote]

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