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A message about the Sept 2024 update on Well-Resourced Schools: proposed closure of Green Lake Elementary in 2025

9/13/2024 5:11 pm

To our Dragon Community: 


By now you’ve most likely heard that Seattle Public Schools has launched its new Well-Resourced Schools webpages, which includes key information on school consolidation plans, timelines, a racial equity analysis, and FAQs.

There are two school consolidation plans. Both of them indicate closure of Green Lake Elementary at the end of the 2024-25 school year.

This news is still painfully fresh, and we don’t yet know what we don’t know. Your PTA Board is holding an emergency meeting this Sunday Sept 15 to discuss in depth and make a plan. We’ll do our best to help you navigate, have your voices be heard, and prepare for whatever is next. 

 

Know that the teachers and staff at Green Lake Elementary are not in any way responsible for this initiative; in fact, they are prohibited from discussing it with our community. Let’s respect their situation and direct our questions and conversations to the District and each other instead - and focus on helping them have the best year possible.  

 

For now, please: 

 

  1. Kindly limit social media discussions and avoid giving oxygen to feelings that are already pretty intense. We need to give this a little space. The PTA will create a forum for those who want to come together and talk.

  2. Watch for updates from your PTA on this website, on Facebook, and in Room Parent emails.

  3. Review the content on the District’s new Well-Resourced Schools webpages, and send your informed questions and feedback to the District via Let’s Talk.

  4. If you want to push for a better solution than the current proposed plans: 
    1. Sign the All Together for Seattle Schools open letter, which explains how mass closures are not the solution: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_QgLI8prd75z_LD1Xn-vZjp4d-VPfnE25WzYTVYPnIQ/edit 

    2. Join a planning meeting this Saturday Sept 14,12pm at Jefferson Park. Hosted by parent activist Robert Cruickshank  

    3. Join the All Together for Seattle Schools rally at John Stanford Center next Wednesday Sept 18th at 3:45pm. This takes place just before the next School Board regular meeting at 4:15pm the same day

 

With love,

Your Dragon PTA