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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a current McK family, I don’t love that our PTA president keeps emailing assuming we all support not moving.  I understand she might have a personal preference and that’s fine to state openly.  But the group think approach is pretty alienating.  As in you agree with us or you’re not part of us.

Lots of McKinley families do not agree with the PTA’s position.[/quote]

It’s pretty disappointing that the PTA president would do something contrary to the views of most of the PTA members.  When Nottingham was on the chopping block a couple of years ago, there was an open meeting to discuss what the PTA should do and the president required a unanimous vote of those in attendance before the PTA would get involved.  That vote included people who knew they were moving to Reed, and thus didn’t have a direct interest in Nottingham remaining a neighborhood school, because the PTA is supposed to represent all parents, not just a certain subset.

The vote also came with an explicit condition that Nottingham PTA activity on the issue would not involve throwing any other schools under the bus.  Tto the extent any Nottingham people did that, they were acting in their individual capacity, not as part of the PTA.

Seems like the McKinley PTA is taking a very different approach.[/quote]

Huh. That must have been a different pta than the one that threw McKinley under the bus by refusing the Tuckahoe PUs, thereby exacerbating the severe overcrowding situation at Mckinley.

Lol at any attempts to create warm and fuzzy memories of Nottingham pta presidents while pointing fingers at other schools. But glad to hear that some ethics kicked in at some point. [/quote]

Yes — it was a very different PTA than the one that put up a fight about the PUs several years ago.  This was specifically about the initial APS suggestion (nearly 2 years ago) that Nottingham be considered as a site for an option school.  I get it, you’re still bitter.  I would be, too.  It was shitty when Nottingham did it, it is shitty when any school does it.   [/quote]

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