High drama continues at Jefferson
I wrote last month about the grief the Portland board of education has been getting about busing students from Jefferson High all the way to the old Marshall High while Jefferson is remodeled. Now the school board says it won't do that. But it isn't saying where the kids are going to go for classes during the renovation, which will take a few years.
Will they stay at Jeff, and work around the construction, like the rich kids got to do at Lincoln? Or what? As far as I can see, no one's saying. Maybe no one knows. If I had to bet, I'd say the suits would rather close Jefferson than fix it up. But that would surely be political dynamite.
When our kids were at Franklin 1997-2001there was talk of closing Franklin and moving the kids to Cleveland. The auditorium was packed with angry parents and the School Board called for backup from the Portland Police. Franklin stayed open but now I thought I heard they wanted to close Cleveland. So, so glad my kids managed to get through their Portland Public School education with a minimum of trauma. It did at times feel like a hostage situation to be a parent.
ReplyDeleteEver wonder why tuition is so high, much higher than the rate of inflation? Cause the developers have taken over in education too> https://www.eugyppius.com/p/the-managerial-menace
ReplyDeleteI thought I heard a suggestion about a facility nearby that wasn’t owned or controlled by PPS
ReplyDeletePCC. But that makes too much sense; they won't do it.
DeleteApparently it would take something like 3 years (not joking) to have all the meetings and etc it would take to change the zoning at PCC to allow it.
DeleteIn a sane city, it would take two or three months.
DeleteBoth Roosevelt and Grant are about 15 minutes away from Jefferson. Jefferson has tiny enrollment (less than 600). Divide the students, and send them to Roosevelt and Grant.
ReplyDeleteI know. What gives? If they can make middle school kids (me) wake up much earlier than need be just for the forced busing of the 70’s, then HS kids can do it.
DeleteI lived some three blocks from my school, but was made to wait outside of the school every morning just to get shipped to a different school seemingly a world away.