One of the curious things about the CAC’s final recommendation report is the number of column inches devoted to explaining the decision to close Graham Hill Elementary, a rationale (or should I say, “rationalization”) that consumed half of the five pages covering the five schools impacted in the SE quadrant.
Indeed, no other school on the list was critiqued with such surgical precision in an effort to paint a picture of comparative academic weakness. While most schools were simply compared by WASL performance, the CAC was forced to first separate out the scores of our Montessori students from those in our so-called “regular” program, and then finally zero in on only the Reading scores of those “regular” students qualifying for free or reduced price lunch. And rather than using the multiyear averages generally cited elsewhere, the CAC only looked at 2005… a year our school was in turmoil under an incompetent principal the staff was struggling to oust.
The CAC’s conclusion:
By the 2005 Reading results for students living in poverty, the percent meeting standard for students in the regular program was 12th of 17 in the quadrant (above only the two schools with lower results we were already recommending to close or merge).
From this the district brands Graham Hill a failed school? Gimme a break.
Hell… why not break it out even further? Why not compare our 2005 reading scores of bilingual, “regular” program students living in poverty with the 2005 reading scores of bilingual “regular” program students living in poverty at other SE quadrant schools? Why not compare the math scores of students whose last name begins with the letter “Q” for that matter?
The fact is, when judged on the same criteria used to judge other schools — you know, counting the scores of all our students — Graham Hill consistently ranks in the top third of SE quadrant schools. But even when you break out our Montessori scores (something that had never been done before in the thirteen years of the program, and something that has yet to be done with the Montessori program at Bagley,) our “regular” student’s WASL scores still fare well compared to our neighboring schools.
The following table compares the two-year (2004-2005) WASL average for Reading, Writing, and Math at all 16, SE neighborhood schools, with Graham Hill’s Montessori program broken out separately from our “Contemporary” program (which is what we prefer to call the program the CAC demeans as “regular.”)
| RANK | SCHOOL | PROFICIENCY |
| 1 | Maple | 78% |
| 2 | Graham Hill Montessori | 76% |
| 3 | Kimball | 67% |
| 4 | Beacon Hill | 61% |
| 5 | Brighton | 57% |
| 6 | Muir (with Spectrum) | 54% |
| 7 | Wing Luke (with Spectrum) | 53% |
| 8 | Van Asselt | 50% |
| 9 | Graham Hill Contemporary | 49% |
| 10 | African American Academy | 47% |
| 11 | Dearborn Park | 46% |
| 12 | Hawthorne | 46% |
| 13 | Dunlap | 44% |
| 14 | Orca | 33% |
| 15 | Rainier View | 29% |
| 16 | Emerson | 28% |
| 17 | Whitworth | 28% |
As you can see, our Contemporary program fares respectably; despite its high number of bilingual and special education students, it is actually nipping at the heels of Muir and Wing Luke, both of which house Spectrum programs. Meanwhile our Montessori students earn amongst the highest combined scores in the quadrant. (And at 100 percent proficiency for two years running, they earn the highest Reading scores in the entire district.)
Curiously, the CAC report specifically focuses on our 2005 Reading and Math scores, but ignores our Writing scores entirely. Could it be because the following table comparing our 2005 Writing scores to other schools in the quadrant doesn’t exactly scream out for Graham Hill’s closure?
| RANK | SCHOOL | PROFICIENCY |
| 1 | Graham Hill Montessori | 83% |
| 2 | Maple | 73% |
| 3 | Beacon Hill | 61% |
| 4 | Wing Luke (with Spectrum) | 60% |
| 5 | Kimball | 58% |
| 6 | Dearborn Park | 56% |
| 7 | Graham Hill Contemporary | 53% |
| 8 | Van Asselt | 51% |
| 9 | Rainier View | 47% |
| 10 | John Muir (with Spectrum) | 45% |
| 11 | Dunlap | 44% |
| 12 | Hawthorne | 44% |
| 13 | Brighton | 35% |
| 14 | African American Academy | 34% |
| 15 | Emerson | 32% |
| 16 | Orca | 30% |
| 17 | Whitworth | 9% |
Hmm. I wonder how the “regular” students at Muir and Wing Luke fare after you break out the scores of their Spectrum students?
We’ll never know, because the district and the CAC never bothered to evaluate their dual programs as separate schools… only Graham Hill received that honor. And only Graham Hill required two pages of cherry-picked data to twist its way onto the CAC’s closure list.
The two-year drop in enrollment from 388 in 2003 to 325 in 2005 that the CAC cites as evidence of our school’s decline? That intentionally ignores the fact that our enrollment temporarily peaked when we absorbed a large chunk of Brighton’s population while that school was closed for renovations. And it also ignores the fact that our official enrollment numbers consistently fail to reflect the 32 students in our Montessori preschool, who when properly counted raise our capacity utilization to over 91 percent… again, amongst the highest figures in the quadrant.
So the question remains: “Why?” Why did the district feed misleading data to the CAC, and refuse to correct or explain it after our repeated protestations? Why was the CAC guided to dissect our school in two, when other schools with dual programs, like Muir, Wing Luke and Bagley were evaluated as one? Why did the CAC contort itself to recommend closing a school that in terms of diversity, first-choice ranking, capacity utilization, and academic performance ranks amongst the highest in the quadrant? Why would the district want to shut down a school that recently underwent a $5.2 million renovation and expansion, and eliminate a Montessori program that produces some of the highest WASL scores in the district?
Superintendent Raj Manhas’s own recommendation list comes out later today, and if Graham Hill is still on it, perhaps he’ll show the Graham Hill community the common courtesy of explaining the real reasons why.
UPDATE:
Saving Seattle Schools has more thoughts on the district’s selective use of data and criteria to rationalize closing schools:
Over and over at the Town Meetings, I heard schools refuting the data used in the CAC recommendations. It became clear that either the CAC had selectively picked data, choosing what best supported their decisions, or they had faulty data, or both.
The Graham Hill closure is a perfect example. The CAC report states that: “…students in the regular programs at Graham Hill fared less well than students in surrounding regular programs, and that allowing them to choose other programs would result in their being better served academically.” For supporting data, they used the 2005 Reading WASL scores only.
[…]
Using two years of data for all WASL topics, rather than one year of data for just one topic, the CAC would have been unable to conclude that, regarding the Graham Hill Regular program students, other area schools can “serve them as well or better.”
It’s a shame to reduce a discussion about academic performance to a mere comparison of WASL scores, but if that’s the metric the district is going to use to justify closing my school, then that’s the metric I’ll use to defend it.
If your daughter’s school were not slated for destruction, Goldy, what would your position be on this issue? Montessori is not the be all and end all of children’s education , anyway. It’s just a wait and see, let-em do what they wanna do scheme. Come on, Bud! Grow up and let it go. Bertrand Russel had much better schools than Montessori ever dreamed of. Read up on it.
Forget about this dumb wop bitch and read about a decent English boy: Bertrand Russell.
pewma has absolutely no idea what it is talking about…
re 2: Well then. Bring me up to speed. I’m all ears.
…and claws.
The sad issue here is the conflict between automation in liberal views and reality. The liberal community, with the important exception of John Kerry, has sided with he teacher’s unions in opposition to charter schools. Why? Because the unions fear the power of parental choice in changing the way teachers’ work is assigned. The result … support for politicized, top heavy systems like Seattle.
Goldie’s comments would only matter if there really were a tradition of Seattle supporting the wonderful schools groups pf parents have over and over again shown they can create within the District. Sadly, the only success that matter are those that focus on race … black kids success matters, white kids (even in integrated settings) ain’t important to the District.
15 years ago, as a parent leader in the IPP program we went through much the same thing.
I think they want to close Graham Hill because they think it’s not fair that it’s so successful, and everyone else will ‘feel bad’ if Graham is allowed to be so successful. That’s pretty much how the ‘spreading misery around’ mindset works.
Attaboy Goldy…yer wearin’ ’em down.
No wonder you ain’t married though.
What a relentless, nagging bastard you are.
Hard to turn it off and on I’ll bet. There’s always somethin’!
I pity your ex-wife.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm—
Makes me wonder how my wife could still be with me after all these years.
Mr. Cynical, that last point you make is the most self-reflective comment I’ve ever seen you make on this blog. I suspect many of wonder the same thing. Perhaps you could invite her to participate here. We’d love the hear her marriage tips.
Pewma,
If Graham Hill had not been on the preliminary closure list, I probably would not have looked into the process as closely as I have, and thus I would probably not know how incredibly fucked up it is. I probably would have bought into the district’s assumptions the way nearly everybody else has.
As for Montessori, I’m a Montessori agnostic. Different kids have different learning styles, and Montessori is not for everybody. I myself am the product of “open” classrooms — definitely not a teaching style for every child, but I certainly turned out well educated.
But whatever your criticisms of Montessori, it’s hard to argue with the academic results it is achieving at Graham Hill.
Truly outrageous data. What in God’s name was the committee thinking? My tax dollars are gonna close the best South Seattle elementary by any measure, and I get to pay millions on it for years? I only hope the superintendent has the courage to over ride the CAC’s folly.
In education you must realize that most kids have adequate brainpower but lack direction and discipline. They prefer to skylark than attend to the difficult task of mastering the basics well enough to get by in this world. They need no conservative political apparatus to hold them down. Kids are perfectly capable of doing this to themselves.
As prosaic and simple as it may sound, most kids only need to have the basics drilled into their unwilling little heads, and disruptive children must be gotten rid of so they don’t hold everyone back into their dysfunctional little worlds. The public school systems inability to deal with disruptive children is what frustrates many parents into wanting charter schools.
It’s a thorny problem!
I’m a liberal, by the way — but one that does not suffer fools gladly.
Similar scrutiny would yield similar passion and similar results from similar parents of similar kids.
Bottom line – change is tough. No one likes it when it personally affects himself/herself.
The CAC seems to be made up of independent, thoughtful, respected community members. I don’t see any evidence that analysis was biased (using selective approaches) to suggest a set of certain schools be closed…while others remain open.
Things change. If the changes are non palatable, work hard to prevent them (as you are). If that doesn’t bring satisfaction, consider changing yourself in some fashion to react to the change foisted upon you.
But impugning a well respected committee as driving a “f-ued” process really shouldn’t be part of the process. It doesn’t help anyone’s cause…
Pewma,
Unlike private schools, public schools can’t easily get rid of disruptive students; they have an obligation to teach everybody.
Thomas…
My criticism is largely leveled at the district for driving a fucked up process and pushing misleading and inaccurate data to CAC. I’ve never meant to impugn the individual CAC members, although I do resent the way some of them approached our school with hostile presumptions.
Somebody told them that Graham Hill was the South End bastion of racism. And apparently, many of them believed it. First impressions count, and in this case, first impressions closed our school. Everything else was an attempt to justify the decision.
Oh… and NO… similar scrutiny would not produce similar results for other schools. Some schools simply perform less well than GH.
Public schools do have the obligation to teach all students, but obdurately disruptive students poison the atmosphere for everyone. I f no one is willing to deal with the reality that these students must be isolated from the otherws, public schools will suffer the less than mediocre results they now achieve.
It seems that identifying the main problem in our public education system is more difficult than the actual solution would be.
Why are they even using these performance measures in their decision?
Shouldn’t the best criteria be which school buildings are the least valuable? Look at which building is closest to the end of its effective life. If there are any close calls, consider how close the building is to concentrations of student populations.
And why doesn’t Seattle go back to the concept of a neighborhood school? Establish attendance zones for all schools. This would save an ENORMOUS amount on busing costs.
Seattle is worse off because fewer parents send their children to public schools — only 68% vs. 90% national average. This screws up funding, since it is based on per student, and the remaining 68% includes practically all of the special needs and academically challenged students.
So why is Seattle wasting millions transporting children all over the district, when the funding demographics are so unfavorable? Moreover, if a neighborhood school, no forced busing, policy were established, maybe more parents would choose public schools over private schools (or move into Seattle), and funding would improve.
Upon further reflection, Goldy does have some valid points. The Seattle school district is using misleading figures and false reasoning in its decision to close Graham Hill.
Somebody told them that Graham Hill was the South End bastion of racism. And apparently, many of them believed it. First impressions count, and in this case, first impressions closed our school. Everything else was an attempt to justify the decision.
Commentby Goldy— 6/2/06@ 8:12 am
GOLDY HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD! His daughter’s beloved Graham Hill school is being closed due to political correctness. What goes around, comes around. They looked at the Montesorri program, and couldn’t stand the fact that a parent initiative such as that could result in some of the highest WASL scores and academic performance in the district. Then they looked at the politically correct criteria of race and poverty to find a basis to attack and destroy that program. Rather than shut down the Montesorri program, they decided to shut down the entire school.
Now we just need to get Goldy to start opposing some of the candidates that CAC Chair Ken Alhadeff has been backing:
Candidate/Committee Date Amount P Contributor City State Zip Employer Occupation
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CHAIR ELTTEAS ENTERPRISES
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CHAIR ELTTEAS
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CHAIR ELTTEAS
BERKEY JEAN L 10/26/2001 $150.00 G ALHADEFF KENNETH SEATTLE WA 98104 SELF-EMPLOYED REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER
BONKER DON L 10/30/2000 $500.00 G ALHADEFF KENNETH SEATTLE WA 98104 SELF-EMPLOYED INVESTMENTS
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CHOW CHERYL M 06/01/2002 $500.00 P ALHADEFF KENNETH SEATTLE WA 98104 SELF-EMPLOYED BUSINESSMAN
CIT AGAINST THE MONORAIL 11/01/2002 $1,000.00 G ALHADEFF KENNETH SEATTLE WA 98104 KENNETH ALHADEFF PHILANTHROPIST
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CIT PROTECTING OUR WATER & FORESTS 10/15/2004 $5,000.00 G ALHADEFF KENNETH SEATTLE WA 98104 MIKEN PROPERTIES INC CEO
COMPTON JAMES N 05/10/2002 $100.00
ALHADEFF KENNETH SEATTLE WA 98104 SELF-EMPLOYED INVESTOR
CONLIN RICHARD B 04/14/2005 $500.00 G ALHADEFF KEN SEATTLE WA 98104 ALHADEFF PROPERTIES OWNER
CONSTANTINE JAMES DOW 04/11/2003 $500.00 P ALHADEFF KENNETH SEATTLE WA 98104 ELTTAES ENTERPRISES CHAIRMAN
COOPER J MIKE 10/26/2004 $1,000.00 G ALHADEFF KENNETH SEATTLE WA 98104 MIKEN PROP. PRESIDENT/CEO
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INVESTOR
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ATTOREY
HARA LLOYD F 10/30/2005 $250.00
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KILMER DEREK C 08/25/2004 $328.00 P ALHADEFF KENNETH SEATTLE WA 98104 SELF GENERAL ACCOUNT
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ALHADEFF KENNETH SEATTLE WA 98104 SELF-EMPLOYED INVESTOR
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Sort of interesting that CAC Chair Ken Alhadeff donated $1,000.00 to Cheryl Chow’s 2005 Seattle School Board campaign?
Cheryl Chow represents District VII, where Goldy lives and where Graham Hill Elementary is located.
http://www.seattleschools.org/area/board/chow.xml
It didn’t seem like Alhadeff gave any money to any other school board candidates in Seattle.
Goldy –
I feel for you. My family has been on the “losing” side in a redistricting (not a closing, but it amounted to the same thing for our kid). The process stunk and the results stunk. We took our son out of the public school system as a result.
And you know what? In the end, years later now, it was the best thing that could have happened for him and us.
I wish you and yours the same.
– Disgruntled
Really, if the school were to remain closed, what a travesty, as Mr. Pope points out. And who are our school board members beholdened to? I sincerely hope this is not political correctness run amuck, destroying a school with the BEST READING SCORES in the district? Yeah, by all means, close it.
BUSH ADMINISTRATION BLAMES NEW YORK CITY FOR HOMELAND SECURITY CUTS
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[The ease with which CAC jettisoned TOPS from their list shows just how arbitrary the whole process has been. The Seattle schools administrators KNOW that those TOPS parents are one hyper-ambitious (in a good way?) bunch of (mostly) white folks who could really fuck with the district, so they caved very early. Graham hill? Two groups equally dissed: just a bunch of uppity boat rockers and powerless (primarily minority) funding units.]
I am afraid appearances point to these observations being correct:
Somebody told them that Graham Hill was the South End bastion of racism. And apparently, many of them believed it. First impressions count, and in this case, first impressions closed our school. Everything else was an attempt to justify the decision.
Commentby Goldy— 6/2/06@ 8:12 am
GOLDY HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD! His daughter’s beloved Graham Hill school is being closed due to political correctness. What goes around, comes around. They looked at the Montesorri program, and couldn’t stand the fact that a parent initiative such as that could result in some of the highest WASL scores and academic performance in the district. Then they looked at the politically correct criteria of race and poverty to find a basis to attack and destroy that program. Rather than shut down the Montesorri program, they decided to shut down the entire school.
Commentby Richard Pope— 6/2/06@ 9:01 am
What a whiny little prick. The Democrat NEA, Democrat city council, and Democrat school board know best, and Goldsteinberg is still bitching. Typical lib. [hehe] JCH
It’s a shame to reduce a discussion about academic performance to a mere comparison of WASL scores, but if that’s the metric the district is going to use to justify closing my school, then that’s the metric I’ll use to defend it.
I was rooting for you Goldy until I read this quote. At first you tried to play the race card, now you are apologizing for merit. I felt bad for you and your daughter given all the hard work you put in to the school. But you’ve gone too far. Now you’re just an angry blogger using his voice to try and change the outcome. Too bad we all don’t have a personal angry blogger. If someone in Seattle Schools is reading this, you should shut down Graham Hill just to show that one angry citizen doesn’t make decisions for the whole school system.
Pewma –
As someone who once worked in public schools, the problem of discipline is not as simple as an unwillingness to seperate out the bad apples.
As Goldy pointed out you can’t simply remove a student from the school without something really serious.
If you are simply talking about disruptive kids, then what are you really dealing with is the ability of a teacher to adequately control their classroom. In this respect, it is less about willpower and more about class size.
Now the very best teachers can handle almost any number of kids, but you can’t design a system around the 99th percentile. The reality is that most people can’t control really large classes and that is why you hear so much about class size reduction from the teachers.
Bob – You want to explain why that quote was so offensive? Do you actually think that the WASL is the only way to judge a good education? It is one tool to measure, but it is far from perfect and if you are trying to really understand a situation you have to be a little smarter than to just use a one-shot test.
Now you’re just an angry blogger using his voice to try and change the outcome. Too bad we all don’t have a personal angry blogger. If someone in Seattle Schools is reading this, you should shut down Graham Hill just to show that one angry citizen doesn’t make decisions for the whole school system.
Commentby BrotherBob— 6/2/06@ 11:01 am
Well, Goldy is an angry blogger, but he is starting to make a lot of sense of this issue. And also showing a cooler head.
I wonder if Graham Hill was the only Montesorri program with more than 10 fourth graders, and therefore the only one where Montesorri scores could be separated out? The Seattle school district won’t publish any statistic that covers 10 or fewer students due to privacy reasons.
The politically correct crowd was able to see how much better Montesorri students were doing, compared to other students, and therefore decided to shut down the program at Graham Hill.
They doctored and figured and distorted with statistics, took a couple of figures that looked particularly bad, and used this to justify their decision.
It wouldn’t do to simply eliminate the regular program at Graham Hill, and move another elementary school to the same building. That would have allowed the Montesorri program to continue.
It was therefore necessary to shut down the Graham Hill building entirely. Even though many millions had just been spent renovating and improving the same.
Geez, Pope, why don’t you and Goldy get a room or something. I can’t deal with this civility stuff.
Deliver us from the politically correct. I can guarantee you that the superintendent won’t take the school off the list; he just has to hide behind the CAC human shields, as Goldy has so aptly judged them. The twisting and distorting of facts has been astounding.Why were Graham Hill test scores examined in a way no other school was? They made a conclusion at the get-go, then looked for rationalizations, I bet they move the bilingual program in there, or maybe the New School.
Geez, Pope, why don’t you and Goldy get a room or something. I can’t deal with this civility stuff.
Commentby Observer— 6/2/06@ 11:47 am
Sounds like they may soon be able to get a room at Graham Hill Elementary.
Has Goldy figure out how to fund all the incremental costs of keeping his beloved school open?
Does Goldy even know for certain what those incremental costs are??
I see lots of emotion, racism & elitism flowing….but a little short on the Fiscal Business Case.
PAY TO KEEP THE SCHOOL OPEN FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS.
Car Washes, Bake Sales, Auctions.etc.
Never mind,,,,that makes too much sense and is like real work!
I’m not deeply involved in school issues, but I would offer the following observations.
State funding is based on enrollment, and the Seattle School District’s enrollment has declined 45% since 1970, and continues to decline, which makes budget cuts inevitable. When enrollment declines that much, you can’t expect to keep all your staff and buildings.
Nevertheless, closing buildings should be a last resort, for several reasons. First of all, school closures are traumatic for students and parents. Second, you need to look at how much money is actually saved after factoring in ancillary costs. Third, and perhaps most important, school closures tend to feed on themselves by prompting even more families to move out of the district to the suburbs.
If schools must be closed, the superintendent’s proposal to close (in most cases) the district’s oldest buildings makes sense. Of course, there are other factors to consider. There certainly should be a thorough debate. But at some point, decisions must be made, and the people affected will have to roll with it.
The driving force behind all of this is enrollment, and unless the Seattle School District’s enrollment stabilizes or grows, this process is inevitable. Parents and the community should have their say, but the decisions are ultimately the responsibility of the superintendent and board, who can and should be held accountable to the community for the decisions they make.
Goldy—
Dig into your School District finances and identify all DISCRETIONARY SPENDING.
Also take a look at ADMINISTRATIVE OVERHEAD and don’t forget all the ESD’S.
You are fighting this battle on the emotional front.
Dare to question & challenge the existence of some of the LEFTIST PINHEADED Bureaucrats, there overhead and discretionary spending.
BrotherBob @27,
My problem is with the WASL in general. It’s a stupid test that was never designed to be used for the purposes the state is using it, and which is transforming all our classrooms into the public school equivalent of a Stanley Kaplan prep course.
But that’s another issue.
I’m not deeply involved in school issues, but I would offer the following observations. …
Commentby Roger Rabbit— 6/2/06@ 12:03 pm
Really? Your comments seemed extremely sensible and well-informed to me. Too bad you are not more involved.
Dare to question & challenge the existence of some of the LEFTIST PINHEADED Bureaucrats, there overhead and discretionary spending.
Commentby Mr. Cynical— 6/2/06@ 12:21 pm
Of course, major problems result when the Seattle School Board considers racism to be:
[ ] a. Having a future time orientation
[ ] b. Emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology
[ ] c. Defining one form of English as standard
[ ] d. All of the above
Richard—
In other words, these KLOWNS have done it to themselves.
Kind of like that crazy bird called the “darkinere”.
The “darkinere” flies around in smaller & smaller circles at an accelerating rate until the inevitable happens…..IT FLIES UP IT’S OWN ASS!!!
That’s what the School Board and KLOWN parents have done.
HEY, IT’S “DARK IN HERE”????
Goldy, I have another idea…
Time for all you do-gooder LEFTIST PINHEADS to pull your COLLECTIVE heads outta yer asses and reprioritize!!!
So Goldy, what do we do?
We’re were hoping to move our kid from African American Academy to Graham Hill next year but is that a non-issue now? You seem to have the facts and figures (and pictures) on your side; and I think you are right that the CAC heard about the [supposed] terrible white elite institutional racism of GH and pre-judged it accordingly. It would be hard for the school district to prove the racism bunk while you do have some hard data on your side –
Time to utter the dreaded words?
lawsuit, lawyers, legal…
Not my favorite words but should we look into it?
Advise,
DA
Time to utter the dreaded words?
lawsuit, lawyers, legal…
Commentby das [Goldysteinberg, The Legal Firm of Silverstein, Stein, Lowenstein, and Loeb, ESQ is ready to sue!!!! No military vets here, but we sue everyone and anyone!!!!!!]
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“We’d love the hear her marriage tips.” Commentby Green Thumb— 6/2/06@ 7:17 am
If you marry someone who likes beatings, beat him regularly.
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“Time to utter the dreaded words? … Advise” Commentby das— 6/2/06@ 2:50 pm
There’s never a bad time to sue! Bring a truckload of money.
should read: “Bring a truckload of money to my office.”
Who wants the property that Graham sits on?
Hopefully a private school would fill the building with children….
I’ve been a neighbor of Graham Hill School for nearly twenty nine years.
Last year I had the opportunity and joy of volunteering every Friday in the
kindergarten. My children were students there years back when Montessori
was first sited at Graham Hill, at that time I worried there would be a
divide in the school which was already struggling with low enrollment and
conflicts between its ‘regular’ and ‘spectrum’ programs. My fears were
unfounded and Montesorri made the school stronger for all. Graham Hill test
scores are not a rationale for shutting down this school community.
I went to the Aki Kurose community meeting and saw the same old same old SPS
pony show of using up public discussion time with slide shows and
introductions. The district has long claimed it wants involved parents and
teachers, but I do not believe that to be the case. Graham Hill parents
have been vocal advocates and Graham Hill teachers have been vocal
educators. The district rarely listened and can now silence them.
First, you’d predicted Sacajawea would stay open, and what do we learn yesterday but that it is.
Second, the process being used for making decisions is pretty much the norm on big controversial projects where someone is going to lose, big-time. The process typically includes loose criteria, no easy to understand weighting of criteria, bogus data, incomplete comparisons, big assumptions about costs, no accountability when the costs or data are proven to be wrong, etc.
Can anyone name a project where this process has not been used?
Figures don’t lie, but liars have been known to figure.