<p>Washdad
What do you think about some members of the Seattle community trying to recall board members becasue they wanted to save money by consolidating school programs in areas where the buildings were less than half full?
( posted by a woman who was on the recent committee to evaluate potential closures)
*There is a great irony here for me. When I was on the CAC I noticed that AAA was chronically underenrolled and had erratic WASL scores and thought they might be better off in a smaller building and a more viable program like New School could move in there. You would have thought I had grown 6 inches from the shocked looks I got. (FYI, for those who don’t know me, I’m 4’9".)</p>
<p>I was warned by both committee members and staff members to drop it. It was untouchable. We had been told no sacred cows but apparently there are some.*
AAA is of course the African American Academy, which is underenrolled, resulting in fewer resources available for students because building/maintenance & administration costs remain the same, whether the school has 100 or 300 students</p>