Alafia Elementary School: ALAFIA'S RENOVATION

Nov 20, 2008

ALAFIA'S RENOVATION

What are your thoughts on the renovation?

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3 comments:

AnonymousNovember 23, 2008 at 8:23 PM
Could have been planned in so many other ways instead of not at all.

The teachers bore the brunt of the pain by having to move their classrooms pretty much by themselves. The only help that they had were the people that they could recruit on short notice. There was no administrative help during the weekend of the move. I guess that's not a real surprise.
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AnonymousNovember 23, 2008 at 8:30 PM
I think we can all agree that we need the renovations, the school is over 20 years old and it shows. It will be a complete pain while we go through it but it will be well worth it. And I hear we are getting a stage! Maybe school plays are in our future!
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AnonymousDecember 3, 2008 at 10:25 PM
I worked at a school recently renovated, and we had to pack our rooms ourselves with the help we could recruit. However, we were provided "movers" to move our things to our portable and then back to the classroom. This was a year and a half ago, and econonmically things are different now than they were then. Maybe that's why they have been left on their own. I feel for them! It's a huge task that no one understands until they have been through it.
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Nov 26th 2008 Tampa Trib article....

"The beleaguered principal of Alafia Elementary School began her work week Monday as she usually does – standing in front of the Valrico school as the students arrived by car, bus or holding the hands of their parents.
This time, however, Principal Ellyn Smith had company. Longtime educator Grace Ippolito was by Smith's side, greeting parents and students. Ippolito, who was principal when Alafia opened in 1987, returned to the school last week under an hourly paid contract with the Hillsborough County School District to serve as Smith's mentor and coach for an unspecified period of time. Her mission is to teach Smith the people skills Alafia parents say she's lacking."
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Alafia Principal, Parents Begin Reconciliation
By D'ANN LAWRENCE WHITE
Published: November 26, 2008

Quotes From The Board.....

November 11, 2008:..... "It's usually not a good thing to have an assessment team come into a school," Faliero said. "It indicates there is enough evidence to suggest there were things that were not working for this school, that there is just cause to go forward and look into it."
November 10th, 2008:......"I thought it was a good meeting," Hegarty said after meeting with the Alafia faculty. "People spoke from the heart."
October 24th, 2008:.......Elia said school officials have held six meetings regarding the Alafia situation since June. Elia also met directly with the principal. "I want to make it clear that this is something that we have been working on," Elia said.
October 24th, 2008:....."When a school is polarized, it's not a healthy environment for students or staff to be part of, and it filters out into the community as well," Faliero said.
October 10th , 2008: ....."The superintendent needs to get involved, and she needs to find out if there is just cause to these things that they are saying," Faliero said, adding that if true, the charges could be cause for dismissal.
"I just don't see that kind of unified concern from east Hillsborough unless they truly believe something is wrong."
Board chairwoman Jennifer Faliero said she has never seen such a large group of parents complain publicly about their school leader. She asked superintendent MaryEllen Elia to work with the parents and look into the situation.