BOE Meeting - Calendar Status

The School Board met on Tuesday night and 9 different parents spoke regarding the proposed 2013-14 school calendar.  The key points shared by many of the parents were:

• Doubling of PLC time is excessive - 78 total hours is over two full weeks of school time that students lose.
• Wednesday is a poor choice for early release - interrupts the weekly learning flow.  Most parents (and many teachers) prefer Friday, based on last year's calendar survey.
• Lack of alignment of school breaks (Fall, Winter, Spring) with Adams State and TSJC.

There was also discussion on the process of the calendar development and how parent representatives to the calendar committee are not selected by the parents, but by the administration.

The end result was that the 2013-14 School Calendar was tabled and the calendar committee has been asked to revisit the calendar and to come back as a committee to the next school board meeting (March 4) to present a revised calendar.

Unfortunately, none of the parent representatives to the calendar committee were at the school board meeting to hear the parent input.  The parent representatives are: Donna Wehe, Jolene Lopez, Sophia Avila and Faustin Martinez.  A-PAGE is currently working to set up a meeting with the parent representatives so we can share our input directly.  We will post details of when that meeting will happen as soon as possible.  It will likely happen this weekend.  (Update - meeting is Sunday, Feb 24th at 7pm at Bistro Rialto)

If you were unable to speak at the School Board meeting, but have concerns or comments you’d like presented to the calendar committee parent representatives, you have several options:
1) Contact any of the committee members you know to provide your input directly
2) Attend this weekend's meeting
3) Leave a comment below or send us an email to alamosapage@gmail.com with your comments and we will include them in the discussion with the parent representatives.

We cannot let our hard work and effort stop here – let’s rally and get our input heard by those on the committee who are designated to represent us!