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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

11-18-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum

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Seattle Police Clear Mann Building
This just in from the Central District News:Seattle Police say they have made arrests and are searching the building as groups occupying the Horace Mann school are being cleared from the Seattle Public Schools property on E Cherry near 23rd.SPD says that three four adult males were arrested as police continue to search the building after entering the barricaded facility Tuesday afternoon.CDN is re

Where Were You That Day?
There is quite a lot of talk leading up to Friday, November 22, 2013 as the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy.  Many news outlets are asking, "What do you remember of that day?" and I realized that most of the readers of this blog were likely not even born then.  I can tell what I remember as a very small child. I was with my mother in the town general mercantile s

Tuesday Open Thread
 From the Central District News, a trailer was released for a film, One Square Mile, that was shot throughout Seattle including Garfield High School.   Many recognizable sights and yay! Garfield. I learned that there is a subtropical storm brewing over the Central Atlantic about 600 miles off Bermuda. Melissa is showing signs of developing a tighter core of convection (thunderstorms) close to its


11-18-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Board Meeting Ramps UpFirst, there will be a meeting - called by the Superintendent - for discussion around renovating T.T. Minor to be the new home for World School.  The meeting is tomorrow night, Monday the 18th, at JSCEE at 5:30 pm.I'm not sure what form the discussion will take.  The issue is two-fold.  One, World School has been consistently ignored by the di