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I'm sure Cienna will be at all these meetings, since she's all in to public schools.
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(I'd like "reached out" to vanish in the same hellfire I wish for "going forward." Nothing wrong with "asked.")
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@2, I think "reached out" connotes more friendliness than "asked," which is neutral. They're not wholly interchangeable. I can see why the writer would opt for the more amicable term: comments on previous posts condemned The Stranger for not reporting CPP's side of the story.
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This is yet another disgraceful chapter in history of the leadership of Seattle Public Schools.

The schools are generally very good. The teachers, staff, and principals are caring, dedicated professionals working hard to educate children.

The district headquarters staff, however, are a nest of incompetent, dishonest vipers focused exclusively on internal politics. We elect school board directors who promise reform, but they get assimilated into the dysfunctional culture there and become ineffective. They don't do their job and hold people accountable because it would damage their relationships with the superintendent and the staff. Boo hoo.
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Agreed Charlie.
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Okay, I DID attend this meeting (and you can read about it at Seattle Schools Community Forum blog-
saveseattleschools.blogspot.com).

This IS really turning into a "he said, she said" because Cascade said the media has not contacted them in any real way, Superintendent Banda has indeed talked to Northwest Center staff (and said this at the meeting) and also, it's NOT an eviction. They are ending their lease which is COMPLETELY different.

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Westello, I'm not seeing your coverage on the blog?
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Here's the correct link. http://saveseattleschools.blogspot.com/2…
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"Eviction" does fit --it's defined by Webster as "the legal removal of a tenant by a landlord." What Seattle school district is doing is legal; it also happens to be immoral. But, it's not really 'the system' or 'the district' doing anything at this point -- it is one insensitive, uncompromising, irresponsible employee now holding the bag of the reprehensible prospects both NWCenter and Cascade folks are facing. And, for some unintelligible reason, westello seems to be defending him..?!
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The district appears to be out of time and out of options. So because NW Center doesn't want to move its preschool program to the south option, if even temporarily, 184 kids get to breathe in asbestos. Awesome. This is after NW Center so helpfully got the city council to rescind funding promised to the North Queen Anne Elementary building to fix it up for Cascade. So they took away money from public school students, in the midst of a public school funding crisis, needy and special needs students, because they don't waaaanna move. Great job, entitled rich people. Glad you got more time...even if it's at the expense of safety and health of all those children. Guess they don't matter as much as your preschool program, your private school preschool program, since your 0-3 services will continue whether you move in June or not.
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Oh, I must have read this wrong. I thought it was Professor Banda who caused the problem for Cascade families by not telling NWCenter families their lease was going to be cancelled with enough time to do things right. Let's see, the Cascade families have been looking forward to moving in to the QA building for months, maybe more than a year. But the NWCenter families only got word of this in January...? Looks to me like the blame, and the enemy of both groups, resides somewhere in the SPS dysfunctional bureaucracy. Those who want to drive a wedge between the two deserving groups are certainly on the Banda-Wagon!
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Blame and pointing fingers helps nobody when an entire group of kids has to sit in toxic fumes so that 30 or so private preschool kids don't have to move temporarily. We need to stop focusing on the he said/she said emails from 2 years ago handshakes from 4 years ago this program that program, especially because the whole story isn't being reported. A lot of politics and ugliness going on behind the scenes, and some of it is certainly the district/Banda. But not all of it.

At this point, maybe it's NW Center's turn to be a gracious neighbor and not put kids at risk, because the district is out of space and time. People keep saying 'what about this building or that building or this school or that school'...okay guys, a search for a suitable building for Cascade has been going on for years and years. The W/P is technically a TEMPORARY location...one they've been living at for years while they've been looking for a solution. If in the past many many years no one has been able to find an SPS building solution, what's the solution going to be by June?
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I suppose I will continue to pose the question: why in the heck did the northwest center have a six month lease when they needed years to find a suitable faculty to replace the sweetheart deal they have been enjoying for so many years? Please--can somebody advocating for the northwest center to stay in their current sps owned property explain this??! Or at least somebody explain why their incompetency is the fault of sps.

Seriously Baffled

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