[Grovenet] Superintendent Search

[Martha Khoury]

If you care (and I hope you do) please fill out the survey on the FGSD  
home page link.
Or better yet, turn up at the final meeting - October 14, 6:30 at the  
District Office.
I think the facilitator may be getting the wrong idea. Or maybe I'm in  
the minority.
--Martha Khoury


>
> Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:11:53 +0000
> Hi everyone -
>
> Last night I attended the meeting at Tom McCall which was hosted by  
> the school district to solicit the public's input on what we want to  
> see in our new superintendent.
>
> I was a couple of minutes late, and I was taken aback when I walked  
> into the room and saw the attendees.
>
> 5 people in the room were required to be there and were not there to  
> add input into the superintendent search:  2 school board members,  
> the Oregon School Boards Ass'n facilitator, an interpreter, and  
> Connie Potter from the District Office.
>
> There were 3 other people there - myself and 2 teachers.
>
> I asked about attendance at the other meetings so far, and was told  
> that 10 members of the public attended the meeting at Cornelius, and  
> no one attended the staff meeting held earlier at Neil Armstrong  
> (which was for teachers and staff at NAMS).  The event at the High  
> School for students was well-attended, but the facilitator  
> acknowledged a "captive audience" there.  8-10 web surveys have been  
> received.
>
> After telling me the above attendance numbers, the facilitator said  
> that obviously the people in the FG School District are very happy  
> with the direction the district is going and the decisions made by  
> the current administration and school board.  I had no rebuttal to  
> that assertion, since she had reached the logical conclusion.
>
> The web survey will be available to fill out until October 15.  If  
> you have anything to say and can not make it to the one remaining  
> public comment meeting (Tuesday, October 14 from 6:30 - 7:30 at the  
> District Office), please fill out the web survey, available on the  
> home page at www.fgsd.k12.or.us.
>
> Thanks everyone!  Deb
>
>