Instead of throwing good money after bad, maybe the District should finally look to the future and build a third high school.

Thanks for your comments, they match mine. Our teachers, mostly, work so diligently, seem to be well trained and yet I believe until we can get parents more involved on a regular basis with their students in their school efforts, we will continue to face this disappointment.

On a good note, we graduated 30 students from summer school on Tuesday. What a great thing!! They were happy as well. And we had conversations with parents about getting the students to daily classes especially if they received scholarships. Tough love all around perhaps?

I do think we will have to compare the standards, our curriulum and D-STEP closely to make sure we are aligned from teaching to testing. Thanks for your involvement

I urge them to think not only in terms of a third building but also in terms of a third approach that creates a “niche” high school excelling in a narrower mission rather than another “one size fits all” all-American we-got-everything cookie cutter.

Maybe it is aimed at college prep for kids who have the smarts to do college but not the background or family support and tradition to make it happen. Maybe it is aimed at taking the best and brightest and launching them to excel at a new and higher, nationally competitive level, like taking kids who if left to the status quo system would get into,say, the University of Minnesota and instead let’s get them into Princeton. Maybe it’s an arts and science school that doesn’t need a football team. (A science high school downwind from the Homestake lab and next to Tech — there’s an idea~!!) Lots of possibilities out there to consider!

If we expand Central to hold 2,000 kids it will soon have 2,500. Time for a different approach, and time to offer kids and their parents some meaningful choices.

Jody

The question might be–why aren’t more kids and parents choosing Stevens for their kids if it is an option and there is less crowding? Has anyone asked that question in any kind of community assessment?

As parent of a Central kid, I know they need more space. Part of the issue (especially for arts kids and teachers) is lack of appropriate space. It won’t solve all the problems but is better than doing nothing in my view.

Future plans probably do need to plan for a new school—just doesn’t seem in the cards in the short term. Would like to hear other views if they are out there.

It’s kind of like congregations searching for a new pastor. Sometimes they want one who can get a new building up. Sometimes they want one who can heal a rift in the flock. Sometimes they want a fund-raiser.

So, before we cast about for resumes and a screening process, how about stepping back and having a discussion about where this thing is going, or ought to be going next, and then let that establish some criteria for a new superintendent wish list.