Thursday, March 8, 2012

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Any Color You Want, So Long as it is Black

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Any Color You Want, So Long as it is Black:


Any Color You Want, So Long as it is Black

Henry Ford famously claimed that people could get their Model T Ford in any color they wanted, so long as the color they wanted was black. Why black? It didn't reflect heat or light and therefore dried faster than other paint colors. That's how much he looked for ways to speed production; he wanted the paint color that took the least time to dry.

Where will north-end APP end up? It can't stay in Lincoln forever - the District needs that building as an interim site for the World School, NOVA, Eckstein, and all of the north-end elementary schools that they want to expand. Where can it go?

You can look around the north-end for available buildings or building sites. I can only think of three: John 

Catching Up on BEX IV

I let too much time go by and I now have to admit I'm just posting info from two BEX meetings from February.

The first one is the BEX Oversight Committee meeting on Feb. 10th.   To note:

-one member said they should - at some point - talk about whether they really need carpeting in schools.   What do you think?  Good, bad, indifferent?

- two guys from the City of Seattle came to talk about the need for an elementary/K-8 at South Lake Union.  They are growing and expect even more families to move in (they spoke of FUN - Family Urban Neighborhoods).

Of course, there are multiple issues here.  One, the district doesn't own any land and even if they did, this