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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know her, although not well.  I have mixed feelings on her.  Her kids are nice, which in general speaks highly of a parent.  She is a solid Key volunteer.   [b]She is EXTREMELY committed to the 'keep Key on Key' movement, anyone who feels differently must have nefarious motives or be stupid.[/b]  She can be kind of standoffish.  I don't know who the other candidates are.[/quote]

That's the way Mary Kadera was about McKinley disappearing.  Didn't stop her from getting on the Board.[/quote]

That is true up to a point.  Mary K was McKinley PTA president at the time- and she represented the McKinley viewpoint- Mckinley was more caught of guard then Key, and there were other options- moving ats to mcKinley was not the only viable option.
In contrast- Erin was part of the keep key on key movement for years.  My memory on this issue goes back a long time- multiple times aps planning staff tried to engage the Key community about the need to move and get them to work collaboratively on a location.  It was very clear for a long time that they needed the Key building as a neighborhood school.  [b]Erin was part of, if not the leader of, a group of parents who treated the staff with contempt and mocked them for even trying to raise the idea of a move.[/b]  She absolutely refused to consider the validity of any of the data the staff presented about the need for a neighborhood school at the Key site, and she was extremely dismissive of any Key parent trying to suggest that we should be open to a new location.  She was absolutely caught up in groupthink about it- talking to that group of parents was like talking to a buzz saw.  [/quote]

[b]It’s fun to revisit some of that rhetoric about how a move would destroy the program. As far as I know everything move related has actually been totally fine[/b] and the effed up thing we should have been worried about (Covid) was a total surprise. [/quote]

I didn't say the community a
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Correct. Everything Erin & team said would happen didn't come to frution. A majority of Key parents have actually moved on, it's just a small group that can't get over it.  This group isn't respected within APS circles or the larger Immersion community (parents, staff, admins, etc). [/quote]

I’m a Key parent who is definitely over it, and yes, it’s mostly been fine… but the move did serve to shrink the immersion program, because Key previously had 6 K classes but can only fit 4 in the new building. So that’s one concern that did come true— fewer kids get to start immersion. [/quote]

Going down to 4 K classes wasn't a product of the move. That had been long talked about and a[b]dvocated for by immersion admins for year[/b]s. Erin and "keep Key on Key" advocates did the Key community a disservice by linking the 2 issues. There is another whole thread on this site that talks about the quality of instruction at Key and how it needs to be improved. It's very hard to know each student by name, strength and need in an elementary school with over 700 students. Especially given the high number of SPED students and all immersion students are language learners. [/quote]

As a Key parent for 8+ years, no…. The class reduction was due to the move. Claremont had advocated for fewer students/classes due to overcrowding, [b]but Key never did (at least not that I ever heard about[/b]). [/quote]

Do you trust that your principal at Key would advocate for what is best for the school even if parents don't see the need when it comes to school size? Key parent leaders didn't foster an environment that allowed for its admins or APS to explain why reducing the number of K classes was needed or best.

From my understanding, there isn't a long waiting list of Spanish Ks that haven't been able to get into Key the last 2 years.

Claremont did advocate to going down to 4 K classes but also to increase the number of VPI classes from 2 to 4. This helps to improve outcomes for EL students by providing them with bilingual early childhood education and increase access to the immersion program for the students that need it the most.  Key PTA could have and should have advocated for the same, but again, they decided to fight APS instead of partnering with them. They also created in environment that didn't allow for Ms. Perdomo to openly share what she thinks might have been best for Key.

As a key parent of 8 years have you ever heard your principal or anyone from APS say the reason Key needed 4 K was because of the move? Or have you only heard that from parents and teachers?

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