K-12 Schools

Students Needing Alternatives (11 Responses)

• Offer more options for home schooling
• Help learners not qualifying for special programs, Special Education and English as a Second Language
• Listen to kids who:

o “don’t fit into the box”
o learn differently
o come from emotionally needy families
o come from families with low education
o come from families with language barriers

• Listen to the schools
• Start Talented and Gifted in kindergarten
• Engage senior citizens and young families

Students with Needs (7 Responses)

• Need more help and time to meet growing needs
• Explosive children require time and focus, limiting teaching for all
• Issues around 504 plans often ignored
• Listen to educationally challenged children

School Staff (4 Responses)

• Need counselor in every building
• Teachers don’t have enough time to teach
• Need to hear teachers and support staff

Students with Low Income (3 Responses)

Extra curricular activities too expensive for some

“Average” Student (3 Responses)

• High and low achieving students receive attention and services and students in the middle fall through the cracks
• Needs expressed by parents are overlooked
• Those not involved in activities and sports are not equally represented