Harrington Elementary Fails to Communicate with Parents
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Brenda Vieths Sherrod
12 years ago
I contacted another parent at a different elementary in Plano. She is the president of their PTA. This was only at Harrington. She was appalled that the school would do this.
The background check is across the whole of PISD but not the restricting of parent involvement in parties.
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Kyle Foreman
12 years ago
This situation has slowly been deteriorating through this school year under the guise of “security.” Now that I have received this email/posting, and I’m wondering if it’s really district wide or just localized to Harrington.
The Harrington Administration has been slowly excluding parents from our children’s school lives. This is just another example where they made a unilateral decision to exclude the parents. Every party that I have attended at Harrington has had a lot of parent participation.
If this keeps up Parents, the Harrington Administration will completely exclude all of us from any school activities. Parents, PISD is a public school, not a private school, not a Military or boarding school. This needs some perspective. Right now, the perspective is “extreme protection” with no governance. We need to reign in the Harrington administration or have a logical, detailed explications for these new stricter rules.
My question for this group is “Do we know if this is a PISD Mandate or localized to Harringon?”
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Christian Gore
12 years ago
What upsets me the most about this whole thing is that the school didn't come to the parents in the first place. If this is a reaction to having too many parent visitors in a grade level than a letter should have gone out to address the situation in that grade level not have a secretive meeting without parent representation to solve the problem. The only thing the school has accomplished in doing all this is create a lot of drama and breakdown trust between the school and the parents.
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Katie Cole
12 years ago
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I understand there's an issue of safety because of the number of people that attended the Valentines party - but I think that's been happening for years now and I'm not sure why they would suddenly change it and not tell us about it. No bulletin, no email, no note in the howler- just making a decision that affects us without even mentioning it.
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Brenda Vieths Sherrod
12 years ago
It is sad that they think that they can't come to the parents and discuss this with them. Instead, they resort to hiding the decision. Very sad.
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Shannon Walker-Delaney
12 years ago
have been cleared. Elementary is the time when the children appreciate the family attending these fun events. It seemed to work out fine the last 6 years!! We are making memories that will last forever at this age! It should be encouraged!! They need to quit voting out the positive things and concentrate more on whats going on right under their nose. The bullying and meanness that goes on at Harrington is unacceptable and should be delt with!
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Shannon Walker-Delaney
12 years ago
I understand the Importance of background checks. I don't understand why the families can't attend these events if they ha
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Jocelyn
12 years ago
No right
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Kristi Cuddigan
12 years ago
It's Ridiculous...
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Anel Bangs
12 years ago
This policy is not just for the end of the year. It's for all parties! That is if they don't take those away next. Seriously, what kind of school principal & staff would discourage parent involvement?
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Angie Kuehner
12 years ago
We are encouraged as parents to be involved with our children's school, support the school and its' staff and donate, donate, donate. That has always been well communicated. Attending a school party is an enjoyable show of support to our children and school. If they want to continue to have my support they may want to rethink their decision. Quite frankly this is a self-serving and discriminatory decision.
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Kim Blakley
12 years ago
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Oh, I was good enough to hunt down for every field day for the last 7 years, but may not be good enough to be at my 5th graders very last school party ever!
I contacted another parent at a different elementary in Plano. She is the president of their PTA. This was only at Harrington. She was appalled that the school would do this. The background check is across the whole of PISD but not the restricting of parent involvement in parties.
This situation has slowly been deteriorating through this school year under the guise of “security.” Now that I have received this email/posting, and I’m wondering if it’s really district wide or just localized to Harrington. The Harrington Administration has been slowly excluding parents from our children’s school lives. This is just another example where they made a unilateral decision to exclude the parents. Every party that I have attended at Harrington has had a lot of parent participation. If this keeps up Parents, the Harrington Administration will completely exclude all of us from any school activities. Parents, PISD is a public school, not a private school, not a Military or boarding school. This needs some perspective. Right now, the perspective is “extreme protection” with no governance. We need to reign in the Harrington administration or have a logical, detailed explications for these new stricter rules. My question for this group is “Do we know if this is a PISD Mandate or localized to Harringon?”
What upsets me the most about this whole thing is that the school didn't come to the parents in the first place. If this is a reaction to having too many parent visitors in a grade level than a letter should have gone out to address the situation in that grade level not have a secretive meeting without parent representation to solve the problem. The only thing the school has accomplished in doing all this is create a lot of drama and breakdown trust between the school and the parents.
I understand there's an issue of safety because of the number of people that attended the Valentines party - but I think that's been happening for years now and I'm not sure why they would suddenly change it and not tell us about it. No bulletin, no email, no note in the howler- just making a decision that affects us without even mentioning it.
It is sad that they think that they can't come to the parents and discuss this with them. Instead, they resort to hiding the decision. Very sad.
have been cleared. Elementary is the time when the children appreciate the family attending these fun events. It seemed to work out fine the last 6 years!! We are making memories that will last forever at this age! It should be encouraged!! They need to quit voting out the positive things and concentrate more on whats going on right under their nose. The bullying and meanness that goes on at Harrington is unacceptable and should be delt with!
I understand the Importance of background checks. I don't understand why the families can't attend these events if they ha
No right
It's Ridiculous...
This policy is not just for the end of the year. It's for all parties! That is if they don't take those away next. Seriously, what kind of school principal & staff would discourage parent involvement?
We are encouraged as parents to be involved with our children's school, support the school and its' staff and donate, donate, donate. That has always been well communicated. Attending a school party is an enjoyable show of support to our children and school. If they want to continue to have my support they may want to rethink their decision. Quite frankly this is a self-serving and discriminatory decision.
Oh, I was good enough to hunt down for every field day for the last 7 years, but may not be good enough to be at my 5th graders very last school party ever!