We're going, we're going, we're going. The 11yr old is sooooo excited about the free skating session today, she can barely breathe! Thank you Westfield!!

we saw it on wednesday oct 12th and screeched with delight! the entire cast was hypnotic and charming. very clever production. YOU MUST GO SEE THIS!!! Thank you STC!! Elsman is my new hearthrob... ;)

Rather than blame SCUSD why not put blame where it truly belongs first and foremost: on to the Superintendent of CMP, Gary Bowman. If any of the parents remember attending the July 200 town hall mtg (re: another location issue for this charter school) they would all remember Mr. Bowman emphatically stating that he could not and would not, at that time, select the Old Marshall school site because he was not 100% sure that the building was appropriate and could not morally place all the children in harm's way. Why was the builidng suddenly appropriate one year later, when the previous summer it was not? I believe CMP and SCUSD may have had a private negotiation in that it was ackknowledged CMP had to leave the pioner church due to immediate location adequacy issues and the old marshall school was a close option. After due time, SCUSD may have planned to announce the lack of compliance for the charter school at the new site, and then the program would have to move to the thomas jefferson elementary school, while SCUSD takes full responsibility for the "oversight". You can't tell me negotiations like that don't ever happen! For goodness sake, place blame appropriately: on to the the Superintendent of CMP who has proven to be a non-advocate (especially in his 5 years of oversight for the Mid-town location). He continues to lack repsonsible and reasonable oversight for the program on many other levels, proven by doing a poor job finding suitable accommodations for the mid-towm program to grow at, while providing a smoke screen by hiring a deputy director this last academic school year to do all future site evalautions for him. Please place blame where blame should be. And then please, parents, just drive 6 more miles east and be grateful for new and larger accommodations so the Montessori program can accommodate more elementary students and also extend to junior high. like it or leave it, I believe Bowman has used adopted that perspective before --specifically at the July 2008 town hall meeting. ...just more food for thought

this is indeed a positive story. but what about mentioning the impetus to have had the charter school moved from its' original location held for over 8 years at the pioneer congregational church. did the school move to due to the adjacent longstanding 4 yr + construction of the Sutter Medical Foundation's multi-story medical building/underground parking garage/transmission&oxygen yard being built next to the playground of the previous location at 28th & capitol ave --or was the charter school really looking to improve the image of the midtown area and the quality of schooling opportunities for the area's residents? There are multiple layers to every scenario.