Petition to remove the two-week susprension of Jon Greenberg by Seattle Public Schools
To Superintendent Nyland and Seattle Public Schools,
Innovative race
curriculum and student achievement are stated goals of Seattle Public School,
and yet the decision by the school district, to place further penalties on Jon
Greenberg will only be detrimental to these goals.
The students of The
Center School, especially the class of 2015, are already facing a disruptive
transition in the middle of the school year. By suspending Mr. Greenberg for
two weeks, this situation will only be further aggravated.
As students, we
deserve stability in our education and refuse to be used as collateral in a
tired two-year old controversy. With events such as Ferguson occurring,
students deserve an education on the topic of racial inequality and further
penalizing an educator who has proven to be capable of facilitating innovative
conversations on race, will only further hurt students.
In this protracted
situation, Superintendent Nyland has one again shown that his interest is not
in what is best for us, the students, but in tired bureaucratic measures, to
punish a tenured educator and his students. The original source of this
controversy has been proven causeless and Superintendent Nyland’s continued
pursuance of punitive action is petty and without benefit to anything but his
misguided agenda.
We, the students of
The Center School, demand that our learning not be used a political bargaining
chip. We ask that Seattle Public Schools fully reinstate Mr. Jon Greenberg at
The Center School without a two-week suspension.
If Seattle Public
Schools truly cares about providing a stable educational environment and
innovative race curriculum for students, this demand should not be a
controversy. Our voices and education are valuable, and we urge the district to
right the error of the petty and destructive suspension of Mr. Greenberg.
The Students of the Center School
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