The Seattle School Board has officially approved the boundary adjustment that keeps the Loyal Heights cohort together through their high school years. Your participation ensured that this specific group of students remains united as they transition to the next phase of their education. I appreciate the time you took to …
February 8, 2018
Final supporters
Seattle Public School Board of Directors: Please do not separate these 28 kids from their lifelong schoolmates. Please consider redrawing the BHS boundary line to mirror the current Loyal Heights Elementary line that goes north up 28th Ave NW and then zig zags NW to the water. In the picture posted on this petition, you can see the LHE boundary line circled in blue. The red line is the Ballard High School boundary line that is arbitrarily drawn across 85th. Making this small amendment to the current Scenario Fv4.3 would only impact Ballard High School by:
5 freshmen in 2019
6 freshmen in 2020
6 freshmen in 2021
6 freshmen in 2022
5 freshmen in 2023
Redrawing this line would keep all of the current LHE school students together K-12 — as the growth boundary task force states is it’s utmost priority! It only increases the population of BHS by 28 kids over 5 years! Area B that Director Burke made an amendment for adds 84 kids in one year.
We, the Loyal Heights community are asking you Scott Pinkham, our district representative, and all of the other Seattle School Board of Directors to be our voice and please help us rectify this situation. Once again, the impact on BHS is tiny, but the impact on the lives of those 28 kids is enormous!!
Updates
January 30, 2018
The momentum behind this request is gathering significant traction. This level of engagement confirms the importance of keeping our community whole and underscores the validity of our proposed boundary adjustment.
Reached 100 supporters
January 30, 2018
33 Comments
Academic achievement is supported through the social and emotional wellbeing of these children. Do not separate these kids from their peer group.
The impact to BHS is minimal but the impact to these few students is significant!
Another plea from my family, please keep the current LHE boundary in line with the new Ballard High boundary. It's our neighborhood...we live in Ballard. Please allow these 28 kids to graduate from HS with their Kindergarten class.
Transitioning into high school is a challenging time for most adolescents. Developmentally, they rely on their peers heavily for strength and acceptance. Please keep our children together.
Keeping the boundaries as they have been is massively meaningful to those students affected and since it is a small number of students, it seems like a no brainer to keep them together as they matriculate to high school. It’s a big deal to the students and not that big an impact on the district. Do what’s right for the kids.
Please keep our kids together!
Please don’t separate our kids from their friends!
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The Seattle School Board has officially approved the boundary adjustment that keeps the Loyal Heights cohort together through their high school years. Your participation ensured that this specific group of students remains united as they transition to the next phase of their education. I appreciate the time you took to …
February 8, 2018
Final supporters
Seattle Public School Board of Directors: Please do not separate these 28 kids from their lifelong schoolmates. Please consider redrawing the BHS boundary line to mirror the current Loyal Heights Elementary line that goes north up 28th Ave NW and then zig zags NW to the water. In the picture posted on this petition, you can see the LHE boundary line circled in blue. The red line is the Ballard High School boundary line that is arbitrarily drawn across 85th. Making this small amendment to the current Scenario Fv4.3 would only impact Ballard High School by:
5 freshmen in 2019
6 freshmen in 2020
6 freshmen in 2021
6 freshmen in 2022
5 freshmen in 2023
Redrawing this line would keep all of the current LHE school students together K-12 — as the growth boundary task force states is it’s utmost priority! It only increases the population of BHS by 28 kids over 5 years! Area B that Director Burke made an amendment for adds 84 kids in one year.
We, the Loyal Heights community are asking you Scott Pinkham, our district representative, and all of the other Seattle School Board of Directors to be our voice and please help us rectify this situation. Once again, the impact on BHS is tiny, but the impact on the lives of those 28 kids is enormous!!
Updates
January 30, 2018
The momentum behind this request is gathering significant traction. This level of engagement confirms the importance of keeping our community whole and underscores the validity of our proposed boundary adjustment.
Reached 100 supporters
January 30, 2018
33 Comments
These are kids that live in Ballard and have attended school with Ballard kids throughout primary and middle school. Please consider keeping these kids in our school community through high school!
Academic achievement is supported through the social and emotional wellbeing of these children. Do not separate these kids from their peer group.
The impact to BHS is minimal but the impact to these few students is significant!
Another plea from my family, please keep the current LHE boundary in line with the new Ballard High boundary. It's our neighborhood...we live in Ballard. Please allow these 28 kids to graduate from HS with their Kindergarten class.
Transitioning into high school is a challenging time for most adolescents. Developmentally, they rely on their peers heavily for strength and acceptance. Please keep our children together.
Keeping the boundaries as they have been is massively meaningful to those students affected and since it is a small number of students, it seems like a no brainer to keep them together as they matriculate to high school. It’s a big deal to the students and not that big an impact on the district. Do what’s right for the kids.
Please keep our kids together!
Please don’t separate our kids from their friends!
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These are kids that live in Ballard and have attended school with Ballard kids throughout primary and middle school. Please consider keeping these kids in our school community through high school!