Alafia Elementary School: Dec 9th School Board Meeting

Dec 5, 2008

Dec 9th School Board Meeting

School Board Meeting Tuesday, Dec 9th 3 pm, public comment at 5 pm
To Caravan To Meeting: meet at 3:40 pm sharp, Bloomingdale East Park on Nature’s Way, wear Alafia t-shirt, bring quarters for parking meter. Drivers will be given a map. Local security officers have been contacted to protect cars at the park.
Location Of Meeting: 901 E. Kennedy Blvd Tampa 33602 (813) 272-4000, come to the sign in area to the right of the board room.
Time: must be signed in downtown by 4:45 pm to speak

If You Plan To Speak: Click HERE To Get To The Proper Forms To Fill Out. School Board Office: Emily Briggs (813) 272-4045 / Renee McBryar (813) 272-4052. If you arrive late or fail to sign in upon arrival to the building, you will not be allowed to speak. You have 3 minutes to speak or 2 minutes if there are more than 10 speakers for Alafia.

Wear your Alafia t-shirt please.

Directions are down towards bottom of site...

2 comments:

AnonymousDecember 8, 2008 at 1:07 PM
Good luck to you all
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AnonymousDecember 8, 2008 at 3:38 PM
I hope one of the TV stations show up.. Shoot, they covered a story about a parrot stuck in a tree - can't they show an interest in our children!
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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."
***To read Full article, please click here:
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.