Quote: I don't understand this line of thinking at all. In the greater scheme of things this is small taters. We freely elect a school board to create policy. We hire professional administrators to create and execute strategies necessary to the efficient and excellent management of the school district.
Let them do their jobs and if they start to go down a path you don't like tell them. And if they proceed anyway.....vote the bums out.
But don't expect input as an expectation. God help us all....if all of our "customers" demanded input into our daily small taters decisions. Absolutely nothing would get done.
Not sure I get your point?? Which part of the way our childrens school is run is "small taters"? The fact that they can find money for redundant sports programs while cutting reading specialists? Or is it that they can feel to free unfairly cut programs without any input from the "customers"? I said before that I understood that cuts likely had to be made given the current money situation but that the doing it in the dark approach they had taken is what concerned me. If you think the SLT and Board were just doing bussiness as usual and not trying to keep this quiet then I guess I can understand your "just let them work" attitiude. Of course your second statement is where we are at we are going to let them know we do not like the path!
IN my case I find it hard to believe they were not trying to hide this given the amount of interaction we normally have with our school administrator. In fact we the parents of one odf these middle schools have yet to recieve any (ANY) official notification that this is even being considered. This is the troublng aspect here, you say do not "expect input as an expectation", but that means we should not expect them to ask our opinions? Ok, so they get to decide when to ask our opinions and when they can leave us in the dark? You give them to much credit, I will not tell them how many pencils to buy or which students to put in which classes but when they want to make decisions affecting hundreds of students, a decision that is made at the benefit of other students I think I would like to know it is being considered! Maybe I have input that can help, maybe not, but I deserve to know what is onthe table. I am not saying they have to use my ideas just do not hide from me to do what you likely know I will not like!
