Anonymous wrote:It is telling that parents are not seen as a significant stakeholder. -- ACPS where parents are a mere nuisance and impediment to the indoctrination of their children by individuals who have no duty or legal obligation to said children.

Sure, they really don't care at all what parents want or think or need. That's obvious. But I think you're far overestimating how much ACPS cares about the children. I'd argue they feel children are the nuisance and impediment to everything they feel like doing. Which seems to be serve as an employer of teachers and staff. You'd have to check in with the people that work there as to whether they're even slightly succeeding in that though.

It is telling that parents are not seen as a significant stakeholder. -- ACPS where parents are a mere nuisance and impediment to the indoctrination of their children by individuals who have no duty or legal obligation to said children.

Here is some info on SLEP, including composition of the advisory group, though it doesn’t identify actual members.

https://alexandriapublic.ic-board.com/attachments/9b8f22df-a2fa-45f2-b9d5-669f884f905c.pdf

I don’t understand why in the end Ignacio voted against the motion? According to this article that would have put the advisory group under the purview of the school board and made the process more transparent. The meeting sounds like it was a mess. Not sure yet what to make of the new school board members, to include Ignacio.

Didn't Booz and Simpson Baird both run on transparency? Seems like they supported a process that purposely left out their fellow board members. That doesn't scream transparency to me.

Let me guess...the mean girls at PTAC will put the one parent rep on the group.

Who is on the school law enforcement partnership advisory group? Please tell me other Latinx organizations besides TWU are on this advisory committee.

https://www.alxnow.com/2022/03/11/school-board-meeting-gets-heated-over-formation-of-school-law-enforcement-advisory-group/

What happened with Michelle Rief, Tammy Ignacio, and Willie Bailey (who abstained from voting)?

Ignacio said she was not privy to the edited recommendations that Rief circulated to Board members before the meeting. She said that the staff report recommending the formation of the group was released last Friday, and that she planned to make her edits to staff at the meeting, and was surprised by inter-Board conversations on the issue.

“We can’t openly expect to bring data forward when we’re backstabbing our own Board and making decisions and writing memos and editing them for our own specific purpose,” Ignacio said. “And if that is the way that this Board is planning to run, I don’t want to be a part of it. Transparency. Do not stand up here in front of our public and our children and our staff and talk about transparency when you’re going behind the backs of other Board members and creating memos and editing them. It is unacceptable. It is unprofessional.”

Member Kelly Carmichael Booz then made a motion to put the advisory committee under the purview of the Board, which would make it a more public process.

Board Chair Meagan Alderton said that the Board needs to focus.

“If we don’t get focused we have failed these children,” Alderton said. “Everybody needs to get focused. We have a motion on the table. Just vote.”

The motion failed in a split 4-4-1 vote with Booz, Rief, Abdel Elnoubi and Ashley Simpson-Baird voting for it, while Board Chair Meagan Alderton, Vice Chair Jacinta Greene, Chris Harris and Ignacio voting against and Member Willie Bailey abstaining. That means that the advisory committee will still be Hutchings’ responsibility, and that he will report its findings and recommendations to the Board.