APS is shutting down a few year round schools to save a few ten thousands of dollars, link.
Those who have an interest in these neighborhood elementary schools;
Mary Ann Binford, Susie Rayos Marmon, Cochiti, Oñate, Mark Twain, Navajo, Duranes and Eugene Fieldwere denied due process when APS' Policy Committee decided to shut down their year round school calendar without allowing them meaningful participation in the decision making process.
There was no public forum. There was no opportunity for citizens to petition their government for redress of their grievance. There was no open and honest two-way communication.
Their interests were defended by an APS senior administrator.
It doesn't make any difference which one it was; they are peas
in a pod.
The Journal was compelled to admit the truth;
Representatives from the affected schools were not at the committee meeting. On their behalf, APS Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources Andrea Trybus told the board the calendar is popular.popular;
Closing neighborhood schools is government.
- regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general,
- pertaining to, or representing the people, especially the common people,
- of the people as a whole
If it is really is to be government of the people, by the people and for the people, mustn't there be people?
The leadership of the APS is perfectly content to make decisions about your interests without offering you a seat at the table where their decisions will be made. It actually comes in
"kind of handy".
They get away with it, because it isn't establishment "newsworthy".
2 comments:
"APS is shutting down a few year round schools to save a few ten thousands of dollars, link."
According to the linked Albuq. Journal article, the eight schools are not being shut down. They are reverting to the regular school year calendar, starting next school year. But as you said, the parents got no input. As usual, the staff probably didn't either.
This reminds me of what the Governor had her cabinet officers do at state agencies. They stopped all flex-time for workers. They now must all work Mon-Fri 8-5. Some of these arrangements had been in place for decades. Studies have shown many advantages to flex-time, and there is no extra cost to the employer.
Michelle,
Thanks. Poor choice of words on my part. They are shutting down the year round school "year", not the schools themselves.
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