Thanks for the editorial encouraging the Seattle Public Faculties to work more durable to deliver again households misplaced to personal academic enclaves [“Dear SPS, to fix Seattle’s schools crisis, turn to your community,” May 19, Opinion].
And the editorial board is correct, it’s principally about attitudes towards mother and father. They’re not simply prospects, they usually’re not the enemy, both. They are often counted on to know what’s finest for his or her youngsters if we’ll simply hear. They’d inform us they need twin language studying, Paulo Freire-style experiential studying, talent constructing, and terrific, heat, principled principals who appeal to sturdy lecturers and nudge out poor ones.
Hell, we may even welcome some nonreligious personal colleges to “go public,” giving them the chance to draw a various pupil physique to their specific approaches that appear in style.
First, although, the college board wants to rent its personal analysis and group outreach workers, who report back to the board as an alternative of the superintendent. That’s lengthy overdue, and the way forward for public schooling in Seattle will depend on it.
Amy Hagopian, Ph.D., Seattle (Seattle Faculty Board member, 1990-1993)
