we got the news that summa is staying at highland park and i honestly cant believe it. thank you so much for backing this cause because we really pulled it off. i will keep an eye on how they handle the program moving forward but for now we celebrate.
May 2, 2018
Final supporters
We are the Summa program at Highland Park Middle School, and we have just received some bad news. The school board of Beaverton School District is taking Summa away from two of the schools in the district and moving students to other schools that are also apart of the Summa program. Effective next year, HP's current incoming 6th and 7th graders will be transferred to Whitford Middle School. If this change is implemented, we will lose the family that is here: we will lose our friends and teachers with whom we have a special bond. Summa has made this school a better community and we need it to continue. We implore you to sign this petition and help save Summa.
If this petition is successful, we will move to have more advertising and funds given to the Summa program. The BSD says that Summa is changing because not as many students are in Summa, but we will argue that this is the problem in itself. Why is Summa not as popular? Why are not as many students eligible? These are a few questions that will be posed to the school board. Sign this petition to help keep Summa around, and also improve the setting.
What is Summa? Summa is a program for academically inclined middle schoolers. However, it isn't just a program. Summa students become a family throughout their three years of middle school, and if Summa is transferred to other schools, we willl lose that family, as well as our teachers. Although Summa is tougher than normal school, it is absolutely worth it. Summa is something special and we are working very hard to keep the Summa we know and love at Highland Park Middle School.
Please sign and help save Summa!
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
February 1, 2018
Reached 100 supporters
January 30, 2018
134 Comments
I think Summa is a great program, but for students that have their friends at this school have to switch schools just to be challenged is unfair.
These 27 brave 6th graders chose to challenge themselves in Summa classes this year. Most of them are in their home school and now for the first time are being challenged by their teachers. They love their school and they want to stay. Please allow them to finish middle school at their school. Do the right thing for these kids!
The 6th graders at Highland Park should be able to finish their Summa education at this school. By eliminating Summa at Highland Park, they would have to choose between leaving the friends and teachers at Highland or following the Summa program to Whitford. Difficult choice for 6th graders!
The students have shown a lot of initiative in putting this petition together! The dissolution of the Summa program at HPMS, with no input from the students or parents, and the manner in which it was communicated, were poorly handled.
I have many friends in Summa, and they don't deserve to be made leave. All of the 6th graders, and incoming 6th graders shouldn't be made to leave either. Also, why do the eight graders get to keep their program? It's not fair that the rest of Summa is being dismantled but they get to stay?
I don’t do summa but it Shouldn’t be taken away from students who are in it!
Yes save summa so we have some hope for a successful future my dudes
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we got the news that summa is staying at highland park and i honestly cant believe it. thank you so much for backing this cause because we really pulled it off. i will keep an eye on how they handle the program moving forward but for now we celebrate.
May 2, 2018
Final supporters
We are the Summa program at Highland Park Middle School, and we have just received some bad news. The school board of Beaverton School District is taking Summa away from two of the schools in the district and moving students to other schools that are also apart of the Summa program. Effective next year, HP's current incoming 6th and 7th graders will be transferred to Whitford Middle School. If this change is implemented, we will lose the family that is here: we will lose our friends and teachers with whom we have a special bond. Summa has made this school a better community and we need it to continue. We implore you to sign this petition and help save Summa.
If this petition is successful, we will move to have more advertising and funds given to the Summa program. The BSD says that Summa is changing because not as many students are in Summa, but we will argue that this is the problem in itself. Why is Summa not as popular? Why are not as many students eligible? These are a few questions that will be posed to the school board. Sign this petition to help keep Summa around, and also improve the setting.
What is Summa? Summa is a program for academically inclined middle schoolers. However, it isn't just a program. Summa students become a family throughout their three years of middle school, and if Summa is transferred to other schools, we willl lose that family, as well as our teachers. Although Summa is tougher than normal school, it is absolutely worth it. Summa is something special and we are working very hard to keep the Summa we know and love at Highland Park Middle School.
Please sign and help save Summa!
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
February 1, 2018
Reached 100 supporters
January 30, 2018
134 Comments
I'm not in the Highland park Summa program, but at the one at Whitford Middle School. Still, I know how we build a community at ours and it sounds the exact same there. I was emailed by my friend who goes to the Highland Park Summa program. On her and many other Summarians' behalf, keep Summa alive!
I think Summa is a great program, but for students that have their friends at this school have to switch schools just to be challenged is unfair.
These 27 brave 6th graders chose to challenge themselves in Summa classes this year. Most of them are in their home school and now for the first time are being challenged by their teachers. They love their school and they want to stay. Please allow them to finish middle school at their school. Do the right thing for these kids!
The 6th graders at Highland Park should be able to finish their Summa education at this school. By eliminating Summa at Highland Park, they would have to choose between leaving the friends and teachers at Highland or following the Summa program to Whitford. Difficult choice for 6th graders!
The students have shown a lot of initiative in putting this petition together! The dissolution of the Summa program at HPMS, with no input from the students or parents, and the manner in which it was communicated, were poorly handled.
I have many friends in Summa, and they don't deserve to be made leave. All of the 6th graders, and incoming 6th graders shouldn't be made to leave either. Also, why do the eight graders get to keep their program? It's not fair that the rest of Summa is being dismantled but they get to stay?
I don’t do summa but it Shouldn’t be taken away from students who are in it!
Yes save summa so we have some hope for a successful future my dudes
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I'm not in the Highland park Summa program, but at the one at Whitford Middle School. Still, I know how we build a community at ours and it sounds the exact same there. I was emailed by my friend who goes to the Highland Park Summa program. On her and many other Summarians' behalf, keep Summa alive!