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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not a single reference to equity or closing achievement gaps in that long, [b]scolding e-mail[/b].  I truly am starting to despise APS and its leadership. [/quote]

I agree.  I feel like we just got told off by APS and we better be prepared to be told off again by our principals.  [/quote]

Disagree.  Unlike many school districts, APS does engage the community.  It may not always change the outcomes, but I think they are at least willing to listen to potentially helpful input. The nastiness and winner-take-all attitude is appalling and this is their effort to say enough. [/quote]

Disagree.  Community engagement means more than a portal and some public hearings for people to express their views and then get completely ignored. [/quote]

Look, I know you're used to always getting your way, but that is just not sustainable. Welcome to the world that the majority of us having been living in all along. [/quote]

And then to send out an imperious e-mail asking parents to tone it down, when they are as heavy-handed and sanctimonious as they can possibly be.  Blech.   [/quote]

The SB can dish it out but can't take it.

This isn't about being disrespectful to other communities.  This is about them being criticized from every angle.  In usual boundary stuff, you have a few planning units on the edges that are fired up.  Here, it is entire school communities and neighborhoods.  They can't handle it.[/quote]

They’ve been confronted with petitions saying don’t make changes to this school, that school, ANY school.  People have attempted to get their representative involved, have posted laundry lists of talking points on neighborhood listservs and social media, imploring everyone in the community to get involved to “save” their school.  It’s about time the school board addressed all this ridiculousness. [/quote]

AMEN a thousand times over!  Decades late - but finally![/quote]

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