Comments on: Dear Redesign Team: About that Marshall Design Team Meeting on Monday

By: Leah

Leah — Thu, 20 May 2010 05:32:48 +0000

And I love the photo.

By: Leah

Leah — Thu, 20 May 2010 04:02:34 +0000

I don’t know a lot about the Marshall community, as I live on the other side of town in St Johns. But I think Roosevelt and Marshall have a lot in common-the whole small school thing and similarities in our SES and student populations. My sense is that, if Marshall were a comprehensive and the transfer policy were changed, many of your kids would attend. I think the shared border with David Douglas is, at least in part, driving this. That and the inability to see beyond the racial issues that plague repurposing Jeff. If Roosevelt shared a border with someone, I think we would have been on the chopping block too.

By: Paul Pietrzyk

Paul Pietrzyk — Thu, 20 May 2010 02:00:49 +0000

Christina, you are right on! All we want is what everyone else has. Why is that so hard!! We shouldn’t need to go to Franklin or Madison to get it. I’m tired of having my kids and other kids in our community thrown under the bus so others can preserve their programs. I have seen the failures of our small schools. We started with four, closed one, with two of the remaining three not preforming to our expectations. WOW that spells a 75 percent failure rate in my book. Now use your experiments at Wilson, Grant, Lincoln or Cleveland! It’s time to close the boundries give us what others have had and let us get it DONE!!! Don’t use our Community to save others. Marshall is our Community school and a part of the Lents Neighborhood.

By: Christina

Christina — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:26:50 +0000

Zarwen,

We held the meeting at Ararat Bakery on 92nd by Foster, close to Marshall. We will be having a meeting tomorrow night in the Marshall High School cafeteria from 6:30-8:30pm if you are interested in stopping by.

The main points of last night’s meeting:

-PPS must extend the 30 day public input period to truly hear from our community
-We want Marshall to be a comprehensive, neighborhood school
-We are the largest catchment area in PPS, with no transfers we have the ability to build a thriving school
-Like any other successful school, we demand equity in educational offerings
-We propose the creation of an Advisory Committee consisting of students, families and community members to guide Marshall toward a successful future

We chose, and we want a comprehensive. Student support for a focus option is practically nonexistant and the comprehensive is preferred- it is the best option we have for our students and community.

By: Zarwen

Zarwen — Wed, 19 May 2010 06:08:07 +0000

Anyone care to report on the meeting that was held this evening at Marshall?

By: Christina

Christina — Wed, 19 May 2010 05:28:59 +0000

Amen, Carrie.

“Dear Teachers and Principals,

We have changed the meeting location and added an additional information session regarding the process to select a team of educators to design the new small school on the Marshall High School Campus. ”

This is just wrong. Excuse us, the community input period hasn’t ended yet? How dare they even presume to make a decision over a month before they vote… stop sweeping us under the rug! Expletive, expletive!