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do you not see the difference in this process from the k- process?
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AMEN
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Parents must get involved and worked collaboratively in the entire process (18 months, now- not the few weeks that some Grant parents have been involved since rumor that "their" school "might" close or become a magnet school) if we want to support/ encourage PPS to take the time and energy to recuruit and pay attention to community involvement. NIMBY is not collaborative involvement in a district-wide problem-solving process. We need to be partners and stop saying "You did a terrible job with K-8, so why should we trust you now?" The entire process here is different, and we need to support them taking a different approach and get involved, so that they continue to reach out to the community for input. Otherwise, they'll say, "well, we did it top-down before, and this time we spent 2 years listening to folks, but the outcome (in terms of paretn support/ villianization of PPS) is the same- so why waste the time. btw, our community's experience with k-* has been fabulous, despite extreme virtiol (sp?) prior to the change. The community has re-formed at the new school. This can happen with high schools, too.
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Social Justice requires that PPS Leadership make these difficult decisions, even when community members decide not to get involved until late in the process and only when they feel that their good deal (which comes at the cost of students in other schools) is threatened. PPS has to consider the entire city, not just several neighborhoods.
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I wish you had been following and participating before the specific (runored) "threat" to your child's school. Getting in at the end and trying to block needed changes is not community involvement.
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we could all have better property values and communities if there were GOOD schools available to all neighborhoods! I don't see them as dismantling the school that works, but as giving ALL KIDS the chance to have a GOOD school. I believe that they are working to build on that success. To have SOME people have the opportunities of these GOOD schools at THE COST OF THE OPPORTUNITIES of other children in other neighborhoods is WRONG. The real estate agents in Grant area are the ones who started the rumor that Grant was to be closed. PPS needs to look at ALL the schools equally, and I am glad that they are looking at all the schools. If there are not enough children to fill 10 buildings, then we need to close some. Most people would be complaining that Government is wasting money by keeping schools open when there is not enough funding to support keeping them open.
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Can we modify the Oregon tax and education systems such that school funding is constant and sufficient to educate our children effectively?
THIS IS SO IMPORTANT BUT OREGON HAS REFUSED TO DO THIS FOR TOO LONG!
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