Comments on: 12/28/05 - Update http://www.savewebster.com/2005/12/28/122805-update/ Info about the effort to save Potrero Hill, CA's Daniel Webster Elementary School from closure Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:57:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Eric Mar http://www.savewebster.com/2005/12/28/122805-update/#comment-10 Sat, 31 Dec 2005 21:52:44 +0000 http://www.savewebster.com/2005/12/28/122805-update/#comment-10 Thanks for your organizing and advocacy for a voice for Potrero Hill community members, parents and small businesses. Your letters and calls have been very influential for me. I encourage you to keep calling and inviting the other school board members, the Superintendent and district staff to visit Webster and take a stand with your community. I've visited Daniel Webster Elementary School 2 times this month and met with parents, teachers and staff. Though the trilingual Spanish, Cantonese, English translations were a challenge, Webster staff and parents did an amazing job engaging parents and coming up with some critical questions for school district staff and some demands for fair treatment of the students and parents at Webster. My conversations with Potrero Hill residents like Mayor Art Agnos and others have also been very helpful. For those parents that do not currently have children at Webster, please do what you can to support the mostly African American and immigrant Latino and Chinese parents - they really need a stronger voice in this campaign. Lastly, since your website posted the blurb about Supervisor Maxwell from the SF Examiner on the need for better communication from the Superintendent and SFUSD staff to affected communities - I wanted to set the record straight. Even though it is the superintendent and SFUSD staff's responsibility to inform and involve school communities of the impact of closures/mergers, I, as just one board member, have been proactive, especially in getting information and communicating with Supervisor Maxwell's office as well as Supervisor Mirkarimi's office in District 5 [where we closed 3 schools last year in the Fillmore/Western Addition and staff have recommended quite a few more for closure/merger again this year]. I have told Supervisor Maxwell that I am supportive of the Bay View Hunters Point and Potrero Hill communities and want to make sure that school district staff treat your communities with respect and involve you in decisions that will have an impact on your children's lives and your community's quality of life as well. Regardless of the spin the Examiner or others take on the closure issues, I am commited to working with Potrero Hill and other communities of working families to make sure your voice is heard and that you are meaningfully involved in school district decisions that impact your schools. Happy new year and please keep up your organzing! Eric Mar, President SF Board of Education Thanks for your organizing and advocacy for a voice for Potrero Hill community members, parents and small businesses. Your letters and calls have been very influential for me. I encourage you to keep calling and inviting the other school board members, the Superintendent and district staff to visit Webster and take a stand with your community.

I’ve visited Daniel Webster Elementary School 2 times this month and met with parents, teachers and staff. Though the trilingual Spanish, Cantonese, English translations were a challenge, Webster staff and parents did an amazing job engaging parents and coming up with some critical questions for school district staff and some demands for fair treatment of the students and parents at Webster.

My conversations with Potrero Hill residents like Mayor Art Agnos and others have also been very helpful. For those parents that do not currently have children at Webster, please do what you can to support the mostly African American and immigrant Latino and Chinese parents - they really need a stronger voice in this campaign.

Lastly, since your website posted the blurb about Supervisor Maxwell from the SF Examiner on the need for better communication from the Superintendent and SFUSD staff to affected communities - I wanted to set the record straight.

Even though it is the superintendent and SFUSD staff’s responsibility to inform and involve school communities of the impact of closures/mergers, I, as just one board member, have been proactive, especially in getting information and communicating with Supervisor Maxwell’s office as well as Supervisor Mirkarimi’s office in District 5 [where we closed 3 schools last year in the Fillmore/Western Addition and staff have recommended quite a few more for closure/merger again this year].

I have told Supervisor Maxwell that I am supportive of the Bay View Hunters Point and Potrero Hill communities and want to make sure that school district staff treat your communities with respect and involve you in decisions that will have an impact on your children’s lives and your community’s quality of life as well.

Regardless of the spin the Examiner or others take on the closure issues, I am commited to working with Potrero Hill and other communities of working families to make sure your voice is heard and that you are meaningfully involved in school district decisions that impact your schools.

Happy new year and please keep up your organzing!

Eric Mar, President SF Board of Education

]]> by: Alicia Lo http://www.savewebster.com/2005/12/28/122805-update/#comment-8 Sat, 31 Dec 2005 02:45:56 +0000 http://www.savewebster.com/2005/12/28/122805-update/#comment-8 Hi Dena And Jennifer, What a great job you two have been doing. I would love to attend any meetings with the school board and help in what ever way that I can. Let me know what you need. I'll be there next Friday evening. Thanks, Alicia Lo (Lola's Mom) Hi Dena And Jennifer, What a great job you two have been doing. I would love to attend any meetings with the school board and help in what ever way that I can. Let me know what you need. I’ll be there next Friday evening.

Thanks, Alicia Lo (Lola’s Mom)

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