Anonymous
Post 04/30/2018 19:22     Subject: What do you expect from APS staff (option/neighborhood) on 4/30?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’m telling you. Not until office hours are over. They don’t run on business time. By 11:59 tonight is in their schedule.



I agree. Waiting until after office hours.


Calling it waiting is giving them way too much credit.

I’ll be absolutely shocked if this ends up being anything of substance tonight.
Anonymous
Post 04/30/2018 18:45     Subject: What do you expect from APS staff (option/neighborhood) on 4/30?
Anonymous wrote:I’m telling you. Not until office hours are over. They don’t run on business time. By 11:59 tonight is in their schedule.



I agree. Waiting until after office hours.
Anonymous
Post 04/30/2018 18:43     Subject: Re:What do you expect from APS staff (option/neighborhood) on 4/30?
Doesn’t inspire a ton of confidence.
Anonymous
Post 04/30/2018 18:41     Subject: What do you expect from APS staff (option/neighborhood) on 4/30?
I’m telling you. Not until office hours are over. They don’t run on business time. By 11:59 tonight is in their schedule.
Anonymous
Post 04/30/2018 18:31     Subject: What do you expect from APS staff (option/neighborhood) on 4/30?
So, where is the analysis?

April 30 – Staff will update the initial draft analysis on neighborhood and option school sites..
April 30 – May 10 – TENTATIVE Online questionnaire on draft recommendations for school locations.
Anonymous
Post 04/30/2018 18:28     Subject: What do you expect from APS staff (option/neighborhood) on 4/30?
Where is updates?
Anonymous
Post 04/30/2018 18:28     Subject: What do you expect from APS staff (option/neighborhood) on 4/30?
Anonymous wrote:Her office hours started 23minutes ago. I'd love to be a fly on the wall there. Where are the two options!!!????!!?!


Look at the revised schedule, we’re not getting the recommendation today anymore, just an updated analysis.
Anonymous
Post 04/30/2018 18:23     Subject: What do you expect from APS staff (option/neighborhood) on 4/30?
Her office hours started 23minutes ago. I'd love to be a fly on the wall there. Where are the two options!!!????!!?!
Anonymous
Post 04/30/2018 17:24     Subject: Re:What do you expect from APS staff (option/neighborhood) on 4/30?
I'm tempted to drag my kindergartner and preschooler over there too. I don't have childcare tonight, and bringing along two cranky kids might make a point about how seriously people take this.
Anonymous
Post 04/30/2018 17:22     Subject: Re:What do you expect from APS staff (option/neighborhood) on 4/30?
I may try to go too
Anonymous
Post 04/30/2018 17:20     Subject: Re:What do you expect from APS staff (option/neighborhood) on 4/30?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Now I’m beginning to believe the theory posted above that they don’t want to give people time to digest the news before SB office hours.


I hope O'Grady has two hours of people demanding to know why the staff blew their deadline to release the analysis and how the community is supposed to believe they can handle this competently. Not because I have anything against O'Grady, but because I would like there to be a strong notice from the community that this kind of game-playing with our kids is not acceptable.

(And yes, I would go if I could, but unfortunately I can't)


I think she’s from 6-8 tonight! I might just have to go.
Anonymous
Post 04/30/2018 17:10     Subject: Re:What do you expect from APS staff (option/neighborhood) on 4/30?
Anonymous wrote:Now I’m beginning to believe the theory posted above that they don’t want to give people time to digest the news before SB office hours.


I hope O'Grady has two hours of people demanding to know why the staff blew their deadline to release the analysis and how the community is supposed to believe they can handle this competently. Not because I have anything against O'Grady, but because I would like there to be a strong notice from the community that this kind of game-playing with our kids is not acceptable.

(And yes, I would go if I could, but unfortunately I can't)
Anonymous
Post 04/30/2018 17:06     Subject: Re:What do you expect from APS staff (option/neighborhood) on 4/30?
Now I’m beginning to believe the theory posted above that they don’t want to give people time to digest the news before SB office hours.
Anonymous
Post 04/30/2018 16:29     Subject: Re:What do you expect from APS staff (option/neighborhood) on 4/30?
Love how APS has sent out two school talk emails so far today but hasn't at all acknowledged the elementary planning initiative. Oh APS, every time I give you the benefit of the doubt, you go out of your way to prove me wrong.
Anonymous
Post 04/30/2018 14:03     Subject: Re:What do you expect from APS staff (option/neighborhood) on 4/30?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I realize they're probably doing stuff like meeting with principals and other administrators to review the analysis before it goes public and people have a million questions (and probably didn't want to do that before today given the odds the information shared would be leaked), but c'mon, just post it already!


Seems after 5 is the norm. During the MS process, one got posted after 10pm.


These are the little things APS does that I feel like do more to alienate the community than the staff may realize. The longer people spend hitting refresh to see if it's up, the more pent-up frustration they have when they finally get it, and the more likely they are to vent that frustration onto the analysis. It also doesn't inspire confidence when they can't get it out during the business day because it suggests they were scrambling to get it ready against the deadline and thus may not have given it quite the review it required (hence the screw-ups in round one that anyone double checking the analysis should have caught).


Because it is a Monday, I’m sure whatever SB member has office hours today would like it to come out as late as possible so people can’t difest it in time to complain. I’m not saying they tell the staff to hold it for that reason, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it is held late after a wink-wink nod-nod type of conversation.


Again, little things that aren't huge issues on their own but cumulatively encourage a sense that the SB and staff aren't dealing with the community in good faith.