03-29-2008, 02:54 PM
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Originally posted by Greta
You misunderstand my interest. I am talking about last spring when the charter school was actively soliciting current MWS students, but was completely disengaged with any other local schools. Any Puna public school families that I gave contact information to were told that enrollement was full, while students from MWS were still being actively recruited.
I really can not answer that, I do not know it to be true.
I can tell you that most of the tremendous volunteer work that needed to be done to make the school happen was done mostly by former MWS parents and families and staff who were in it from the beginning and yes some of there kids went to the school, some went/stayed at MWS.
Your statement doesn't make sense to me, children are children does it matter where they were formally? Unless your trying to say that people from our school maliciously tried to steal MWS students which I know not to be true and I know MWS said that and it was even in the complaint to the county I saw (like the CPD cares about that).I think they were just trying to get sympathy,who can blame them it does kind of make them look bad when there teachers and students run off and start a new school. I do know that even after this loss there enrollment has increased. So they can't really complain about that, can they.
Like I said maybe your friends tried to come in at a time when things were very confusing. Except for the CS admin closing registration for a few weeks in spring we have always had openings so maybe thats what happened your friends didn't know registration opened back up. Believe me we've had lots of "spys" from MWS come into our schools pretending to want to enroll ect.. I heard one of the MWS Mothers even came last week to take a picture of our school in operation, wonder what they are going to do with that? I think the WOL office is rather protective/suspicious about people calling perhaps your friends should of went in, in person. Thank you for helping to spread the word to others about the new school.
I really want MWS to just stop, I do not want new complaints filed on the new locations. All of this justs hurts the children. (we won't even talk about the carbon footprint ramifications). I have a copy of the complaint to the county I would be happy to send/show it to anybody who wants to see it. I also have the Old thread that was deleted if anybody wants that I will email it to you.
Even though anybody can easily file complaints for anything even us on MWS (not that we would). I would hope that any MWS parents that see this, would express to the MWS admin that they really don't want there school to continue this, even if they tell you there not, they are.
There may or may not have been people who have to reap what they sow or whatever, but its the children that are hurt by it,Do any of you want to be responsible for hurting children and families? Over what?
Bob Orts I won't bother to argue with you in a sense you have a point
I appreciate the fact you care, perhaps you could funnel that into getting Puna some zoning changes (never mind that will take infrastructure first and we know were not gonna get that). So how about the special permit process do you want your money going to studies so schools can't be by endangered flora among a bunch of other ridiculous things? I guess some could argue flowers are more important than community schools.
I would hope you wouldn't be so quick to judge until you walk in our shoes so to speak, But its all over now, no children were physically injured thank God.