Here’s some news we’ve accumulated regarding our neighborhood’s public schools:
Hamilton earns “Schools of Distinction” honor
Hamilton International Middle School was one of five schools named “2011 Schools of Distinction.” The schools are chosen for outstanding academic improvements in math and reading and have been ranked in the top 5% of highest-improving schools in the state. This is the second year in a row that Hamilton earned this distinction.
Early Kindergarten enrollment for fall 2012, in-person Monday, Oct. 24
If you’ve got a little one who’s turning 5 on or before August 31, 2012, guess what? It’s time to think about enrollment for Kindergarten next fall. Seattle Public Schools is holding special early enrollment opportunities, including one that’s relatively close by, at the Green Lake Library (7364 E. Green Lake Drive N.) on Monday, October 24 from 5:30-7pm. You will need to bring the following paperwork with you to enroll:
- · Certificate of Immunization Status (CIS)
- · Photo ID of the parent/guardian registering the student
- · Address verification documents
- · Birth certificate (or similar document such as a passport)
B.F. Day Elementary receives grant for new playground; seeks input, volunteers
The PTSA for B.F. Day Elementary has just received a neighborhood grant to improve the school’s playground. A committee is about to begin the redesign process, and is seeking input from B.F. Day families and neighbors. The first student input meeting will be held during the school’s Peace Assembly on Tuesday, November 15 at 9:15 am and all are welcome to attend. More information can be found on this flier.
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If you can’t make it to a meeting but you would like to ask that Dr. Enfield be hired without a national search, you can sign this petition:
http://www.petitiononline.com/sesuper/?mid=50
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016575845_pledge22m.html
Here is an article from today’s Seattle Times regarding the daily reciting (or not) of the 1958 version of the Pledge of Allegiance at John Stanford starting Monday.
Is there a petition to bag Dr. Enfield and find a superintendent who favors solid, effective curricula? ‘Cause I would sure sign that.
I am pained to read about the effort to impose the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance on the children of the John Stanford school (see Nancy M comment above). Why is it necessary for us to demand obeisance from young kids who can hardly understand what they are reciting? Are we afraid they are likely to turn into little terrorists if they do not pledge – with great regularity, perhaps daily? Apparently we have to get them in line before they can think for themselves.
whoops, typo, it is the 1954 version . . .
Pledge of Allegiance
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Official versions
1892
“I pledge allegiance to my flag and the republic for which it stands: one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all.”
1892 to 1923
“I pledge allegiance to my flag andto the republic for which it stands: one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all.”
1923 to 1924
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States and to the republic for which it stands: one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all.”
1924 to 1954
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,and to the republic for which it stands; one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all.”
1954 to Present
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God,indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States is an oath of loyalty to the federal flag and the Republic of theUnited States of America, originally composed by Francis Bellamy in 1892 and formally adopted by Congress as the pledge in 1942. The Pledge has been modified four times since its composition, with the most recent change adding the words “under God” in 1954.
@Fruitbat…Will you elaborate? I would love to know what you have learned of Dr. Enfield and her views on anything. Thanks!
Re comment #5:
I guess the 1954 version of the Pledge of Allegiance was a back-door effort to sneak prayer into the schools after the courts decided such prayer is unconstitutional. As I recall that was the height of McCarthism terrorism and the Pledge modification may have been one of the legacies of that era.
Kimberly–Susan Enfield was Chief Academic Officer of SPS when the high school math adoption (of the “Discovering” series) went through. This was the adoption (voted against by 3 out of 7 school board members) that King County Superior Court Judge Julie Spector ruled “arbitrary and capricious” because there was no data to support the decision. The state had found the curriculum “mathematically unsound” but who pushed it? CAO Susan Enfield! Who has NOT supported any actual use of the SPS-approved Singapore math (containing actual numbers?) in elementary schools? Who has no idea why the two elementary school that do not use Everyday Math do so well in math?
I don’t know what input Enfield has had in choosing science curricula, and there is not yet a push for universal reading or writing curriula, but it should be enough to know that Enfield heartily supports fuzzy math.
Thanks Fruitbat. That’s really helpful to know. We HATE Everyday Math at our house!