bird
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Post by bird on Feb 27, 2008 10:24:56 GMT -5
Has anyone else noticed that out of all the committee members, only 2 live in neighborhoods that are affected by their proposal.
Curious.
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lena
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Post by lena on Feb 27, 2008 10:57:41 GMT -5
I also found that curious.
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Post by GUEST on Feb 27, 2008 22:31:23 GMT -5
Yes, this is correct. Interesting, huh?
OK, so let's turn the tables...all of the CF resident parents ON the committee and Board members who have elementary children are now going to HAVE to send their children to a different elementary school next year....
I would like to see how they would respond? I'm sure their response would be similar to MANY of us... we are NOT CONVINCED of changing schools due to the LACK OF substantial evidence for a LONG-TERM solution! I 'm sure some on this committee or Board might say that this would be fine to send their children. So, if they do, they can "volunteer sending their own children" in place of ours!
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Post by blahblah on Feb 28, 2008 8:41:31 GMT -5
As long as my kids attend Cedar Falls Schools, I am happy, and my kids will be happy. Present it to your kids properly and don't let them hear about all this debate and they will grow up just fine.
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Post by children first on Feb 28, 2008 12:51:16 GMT -5
I would assume then, Blah blah blah, that you reside in a neighborhood that is not currently affected by the proposed boundary line changes.
I think what most of us feel is that we chose to buy homes in specific neighborhoods with the purpose of our children attending a certain elementary school.
Would you be willing to have your children go to another school other than their neighborhood school in place of mine? Please, feel free to step up and do that. I would bet when it came down to it, if you were told you had to move, you would feel the same as many of us feel:
Frustrated, sad, and angry that [u]our[/u] children are only numbers...
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Post by GUEST on Mar 1, 2008 11:57:40 GMT -5
TO: Blahblah
I would have LIKED to have been able to present it to my child "properly" but the kids at school have already told her and she cried herself to sleep that night...no matter how much I told her that decisions had not been made, she is distraught...thinking that SHE did something to cause this...kids have even told some of these kids that they are being "kicked" out of school!
As adults we know that this is an "extreme" way of putting this situation, but this IS how they are feeling!...this is what our kids live with at school EVERY week.
I am an open-minded person, and am all about change, but when I can't give my child a "good explanation" because there is none (that is, a LONG-TERM plan for the elementary schools in Cedar Falls) then I will help come up with better answers and will most definitely fight against RUSHED BAND-AID FIXES that hurt the psychological and social development of our children.
If you feel so confident about these boundary changes, and your child is not being moved, then let's swap places, your child can go in place of mine...after all, they are "just numbers"...RIGHT?
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