Tuesday, July 18, 2023

My Meeting With The Alliance For Gun Responsibility

 

 

Hello Michael Christophersen,
Thank you for registering for Alliance Candidate Training - Evening Session.

The event was basically about giving anti-gun talking points to political candidates. They had some polished slides with basic common sense statements.

My main reason for my attendance was to hopefully to gain some understanding for the reason for the major loop hole  in  HB 1240. 

After some pressing one of the organizers wrote in chat that "something is better than nothing" and HB 1240 might not passed if it "KILLED JOBS" 

To that I wrote back that it semms the sponsors of the bill 1240 cared more about not killing jobs than not killing children in other states? At that point he stop responding. 

The host then went on with talking points for schools especially around safe storage. They seem to make it sound like it was easier to buy a gun in Seattle than fentanyl.

I stated that in Seattle we have a weapons ban, a 10 days waiting period and FBI and local law enforcement back ground check plus both a required safety training law and safe storage laws. So short of gun confiscation what I'm I suppose to say to parents?  

At this point they killed the meeting. 

https://gunresponsibility.org/


  
   






















From 2015 election

 

 2015 Seattle Times choice

Friday, July 14, 2023

Man fatally shot in Seattle’s Bitter Lake neighborhood

https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2023/07/14/fatal-shooting-in-bitter-lake-neighborhood/

 Well another murder on Aurora, 125th to exact only a few blocks from Ingraham high school.

 


Monday, July 10, 2023

The Business Of Election Manipulation in Seattle

 


The Seattle school board primary elections should be a chance for voters in each director district to decide which candidate they think would best serve their community's needs, but in Seattle this is not the case. Whether it's unions, media outlets or political groups wielding their influence and agenda, voters get marinated in election meddling.  

One media outlet goes so far as to call their effort, “The Election Control Board” and the scary thing is they really mean it.  It’s also clear that these so called endorsements in many cases are not well thought out or possibly simply purchased by the supporters via a PAC. Oh and many of the past endorsed candidate’s performance once elected don't live up to those shinny endorsements.  

So you might want to think good and hard before taking the endorsement bait.

Sunday, July 9, 2023

McKinney Dad Sues School District for Banning Him From His Kids’ Campuses

 

 

 

"Samuel Hall’s attorney Janelle Davis says they hope to give courage to other parents to stand up to abuses of power by school districts."

"A McKinney dad who was banned from school property after publicly criticizing local school district officials is suing the district for keeping him away from his kids’ on-campus activities for an entire school year. The district did this by issuing a criminal trespass citation that was recently ruled invalid."

https://texasscorecard.com/local/mckinney-dad-sues-school-district-for-banning-him-from-his-kids-campuses/ 

Thursday, July 6, 2023

Why Is The Seattle Public Schools Using SAP?

 SPS has spent millions of tax dollars ($12m estimation) on SAP a software package it doesn't need. What exactly are they doing with SAP? 

BTA V: Approval of Staff Augmentation vendors’ contract amendments for SAP platform maintenance and support for a total of $1,250,000 over FY24.

For $1,250,000 SPS could fund many more important efforts.   

https://www.seattleschools.org/calendar/school-board-regular-meeting-july-5-2023/

 

Friday, June 30, 2023

Is it Real This Time Or Just More BS?

 "Washington lawmakers voted nearly unanimously Friday to strengthen oversight of private special education schools that serve some of the state’s most vulnerable public school students."

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/legislature-strengthens-oversight-of-private-special-ed-schools/

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

I'm Running For School Board Again.

Click here to view my school board campaign blog post

When It Comes to Banning Books, Both Right and Left Are Guilty

When It Comes to Banning Books, Both Right and Left Are Guilty

 

"Today, the Left wages its own crusade against authors, publishers, and teachers. Moms for Liberty has a Left-wing mirror image in We Need Diverse Books and Disrupt Texts, groups at the forefront of movements trying to cancel, rewrite, and otherwise censor picture books, young adult novels, and American classics taught in K-12 schools.

Around the time Dr. Seuss's books were pulled from library and bookstore shelves, Newsweek reported that videos of liberals burning Harry Potter books were "spreading like wildfire across TikTok." In one video, a book burner condemns the "racism" and "harmful fatphobia" in J.K. Rowling's most famous work."


https://www.newsweek.com/when-it-comes-banning-books-both-right-left-are-guilty-opinion-1696045

 

Lockdowns and The Effect On Children

 

 

It is now widely acknowledged that lockdowns caused immeasurable harm, particularly to children, and new research highlights that the interests of the young were forgotten by policymakers during the pandemic. Yet those who are now prepared to wring their hands about this situation are also adamant that lockdowns were unavoidable. Indeed, there is a general reluctance to criticize the very basis on which the measures that damaged children were adopted.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/we-are-finally-entering-phase-covid-narrative-collapse-says-oxford-epidemiologist

Friday, June 23, 2023

Did Seattle School Policy 3240 Play A Role In a Student’s Murder At Ingraham High


 

 

According to district reports the student who shot to death a fellow student at Ingraham High School on November 8th had previously brought a gun and a knife to school and was possibly not expelled due to the districts policy 3240.

Seattle Public Schools recognizes:

  • Every student has the right to the high quality instruction, supports, and interventions that they need to graduate high school on time and prepared for the future;
  • Racial dis proportionality persists in disciplinary responses in the district;
  • Students are impacted when they are removed from their learning environment;
  • Situations involving discipline may be complex and require staff to understand underlying factors that are influencing students behaviors and;
  • Mitigating and aggravating factors should influence the disciplinary decision-making process.

 https://www.seattleschools.org/about/school-board/policies/3240-student-behavior-and-disciplinary-responses/

From Ingraham's CSIP

Supplementary Goal#1
During the 22-23 school year Ingraham High school will decrease the disproportionality of discipline in BIPOC/FFEJ student populations from 3.4% to 1.5% as measured by the atlas data dashboard. 

https://www.seattleschools.org/about/school-reports-and-improvment-plans/continuous-school-improvement-plans/

At some point we need adults running these buildings and perhaps if there were adults running Ingraham the shooter would have been expelled the previous month and a young man would be celebrating graduating. 

Other People's Money It Never Runs Out For Seattle


 

The city wants to spend $165,000,000 (ya that’s $165 million) on another sports stadium in Seattle. This time it’s for replacing Memorial Stadium which is technically owned by the Seattle School District.  

Where will the money come from? You guessed it from your bank accounts!

When I was in high school we along with the rest of the Metro league played our football games in Memorial Stadium. In the 90s Seattle Public Schools went on a very expensive High school sports fields building spree which today including renovations and upgrades probably exceeds the $150 million they want from us to build another stadium.   The point of building stadium fields at each High school was to avoid having to juggle so many games over a week-end and fans having to drive across the city to fight over expensive parking with the crowds there for other city center events.

We already have invested so much money in all these high school stadium fields that spending another $165 million does not make sense for Seattle school district.  The district is basically broke and can barley meet its current financial obligations.

If various groups in Seattle want to build a new stadium then they should follow in the University of Washington’s footsteps and ask all those big buck donors to once again pony up and pay for a new sports stadium.

 

Thursday, June 22, 2023

There’s a Giant Hole in WA State’s Assault Weapons Ban

 

Update 7/19/23  https://seattleschoolscommunityforum.blogspot.com/2023/07/my-meeting-with-alliance-for-gun.html

- On April 25, 2023 the WA state governor signed House Bill 1240 into law. The law basically restricts or bans WA state citizens from future sale, manufacture and import of assault-style semi-automatic weapons. There is one very large issue with this law and that is the state has given one entity a waiver to the law. Aero Precision is a weapons manufacture located in Lacy WA that can still manufacture all types of banned weapons they just can’t sell them to Washingtonians.

This seems to go against the spirit of what the law intended to accomplish.  This loophole allows Aero_Precision to manufacture weapons and then sell them outside of Washington state where they might be used in various crimes including school shootings. Why would the Washington state governor allow these weapons of mass killings to be exported to other states? If these weapons are such a menace to society as he claims then wouldn’t it be prudent and justified to stop the manufacturing and export of these mass killing machines?

I’ve sent emails to most of the local Democrat state representatives for a clarification and so far none have responded. 

https://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2023-24/htm/bill%20reports/House/1240-S%20HBR%20APH%2023.htm

https://www.aeroprecisionusa.com/

Thursday, June 15, 2023

Open Prostitution , Open Drug Dealing ,Theft and the Seattle Boiling Frog Effect


 


 



 

It was a bright sunny 2019 June afternoon when I picked up my daughter from her high school located just off of Aurora Ave. North.  As we made our way home we stopped at the red light on 125th and Aurora where a very young women crossed the street in the crosswalk. This isn't unusual except for the fact that she wasn't wearing any pants or underwear.  Fast forward to 2023 where the above mentioned situation is now considered not only normal but condoned by the city of Seattle administration.

Prostitution, drug dealing and open fencing of stolen merchandise is now prevalent all hours of the day and night from 85th all the way to 145th on Aurora. This activity impacts school children at Cascadia Elementary School, Broadview Thomson K-8 school and Ingram High School. 

This is an example of the Boiling Frog Effect where if you slowly turn up the illicit activity the people don't really notice. They just drive by in their cars as very young women are trafficked right in front of their faces. 

My efforts to stop the illicit activity has resulted in warnings that the traffickers will come after me to the police will arrest me for harassing the prostitutes . 

My calls and emails to our Mayor asking for a solution have went unanswered. Our Seattle School District should be working to stop these crimes from happening so close to our schools but the school board insist on taking no action. 

The Seattle Police responded ,    

"The Seattle City Council repealed the Prostitution Loitering ordinance a couple of years ago. The City also adopted the harm reduction model which identifies the workers as victims and discourages enforcement. The City has contracted with social service agencies to conduct outreach and assist the workers out of the situation.

The Police Department conducts stings to arrest the customers a couple of times per month but it has no impact on the workers. We are also attempting to identify the employers and take enforcement action but it is difficult as the workers had no incentive to turn them in.

 Thank you

 XXXXXXXXX

Seattle Police Department

North Precinct Operations

10049 College Way N

Seattle WA 98133"

 

"Prosecutors allege the suspects kept the 18-year-old victim in the Mount Baker neighborhood, transported her and a 21-year-old woman to Aurora Avenue and hotels for sex work, and took any money she earned."

 https://mynorthwest.com/1151823/prostitution-seattle-city-attorney/

https://kuow.org/stories/why-there-so-much-prostitution-aurora-avenue-seattle/

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/two-charged-with-trafficking-of-woman-visiting-seattle/

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Seattle Public Schools OSPI Citizens Complaints 2018 - 2023 June

Its been a few years since I checked in on SPS and its special education citizens complaints so I thought it might be a good idea to dive into the numbers again.

The current total for 2023 is 12 which might not be complete do to the lag between submission and a resolution or possible withdraw of the complaint. Withdraw usually means SPS has come to a resolution with the parents.

Here are the totals for the last 6 years:

2023 - 12 

2022 - 21

2021 - 17

2020 -  20

2019 - 16

2018 - 19 

Here is the link to the breakdown with the complaint numbers complaint list with numbers

You can look up each complaint in PDF form here Link to complaint decisions 

I will be summarizing the failures soon. 

Friday, May 19, 2023

Fired Teachers Who Refused COVID Vaccine To Get Full Reinstatement And Back Pay

 Three Rhode Island teachers who were fired for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine have been offered their jobs back with full back pay after reaching a settlement with the school district.

Last week, their attorney, Greg Piccirilli, and the school district said they had reached a settlement, allowing the teachers to return to their jobs. They are also each entitled to $33,333 in damages along with their back pay. DiOrio will get $150,000, Thurber will get $128,000, and Hines will receive $65,000 under the agreement.

“The three teachers have the opportunity to return to teaching positions within the Barrington School District should they choose to do so, at the steps they would have been at had they worked continuously,” the Barrington Public Schools district said in a statement on May 11.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fired-teachers-who-refused-covid-vaccine-get-full-reinstatement-and-back-pay

 

Seattle Public Schools Fail To Provide Education For Many Weeks In 2020

 


Fewer than 150 of Seattle’s 50,000-plus students attended schools in person during the first week of March. District and union officials announced last week they were close to finalizing an in-person agreement for preschoolers and students with disabilities to start March 29, the first step of the reopening plan. 

“It blows everything up,” said Chandra Hampson, president of the Seattle School Board, of Inslee’s announcement, adding that she still wants to see the district and union meet the March 29 deadline. “It completely changes what we have to bargain … And that’s super frustrating. We weren’t happy about delays (to reopen)…  But we wanted to prioritize more in-person time to those less likely to succeed.”

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating Seattle Public Schools

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating Seattle Public Schools

The district was also slow to provide services to students who needed instruction or support in person. By the end of October this year, the district was serving only one special education student in person, while its neighbors served hundreds. 

Those parents said they were floored to learn their children wouldn’t receive makeup time. Other children sat for months on wait lists to get evaluated for services that are critical to keeping them engaged and on track.

 Concie Pedroza, who oversees special education as chief of student supports for Seattle Schools, declined an interview request. In a written statement she said that in the spring “staff were focused on providing resources and modifications to students so that they could make progress on their [Individualized Education Program] goals.”

Pedroza acknowledged that there were some issues, stating: “Throughout the first few weeks of school closure, we recognize that there was a slight disruption in services while we worked to get devices and technology to our staff and students to support remote learning.”

It was more than a “slight disruption in services,” said one district special education teacher, who asked to have her name withheld for fear of retaliation.

“We were told not to deliver specially-designed instruction,” she said, adding they were not allowed to adapt lessons to each child’s needs, as federal law requires. “I just couldn’t believe it.”

https://www.kuow.org/stories/families-of-seattle-special-education-students

State Report Finds WA Education Agency Hasn’t Tracked Federal Funds Effectively

 "Washington’s education department hasn’t adequately tracked how schools are spending hundreds of millions in federal aid earmarked for pandemic learning loss, according to an audit ordered by state lawmakers.

The report says the agency failed to collect sufficient data about interventions meant to help kids recover from learning loss, and has not monitored whether the investments are helping students improve academically "
 https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/state-report-finds-wa-education-agency-hasnt-tracked-federal-funds-effectively/

 

Safety Concerns Linger at Ingraham High

 

"On Nov. 8, 17-year-old Ebenezer Haile was shot by another student in a school hallway. The next day, Jones announced a new safety initiative: Seattle Public Schools would assemble a community action team of school, police, city and community leaders to assess how safety can be improved at schools and surrounding neighborhoods. 

To address mental health, a child wellness team made up of psychologists, counselors, pediatricians and social workers would be launched. Jones also said the district would conduct an audit of safety plans at Ingraham and safety reviews of the district’s 106 schools.

The district says it has accomplished all of those tasks. But Friends of Ingraham, a nonprofit group led by Ingraham High parents, has sent three letters to the district asking for more information.

The group asked for the outcome of the audit, what safety policies and procedures have been changed as a result, and whether policies and procedures leading up to the shooting and following the shooting were followed.

The parent group had a discussion with Jones set up in March, but it was delayed, said Kathleen Zagers, co-president of Friends of Ingraham. A meeting is set for this week."

 

https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/safety-concerns-linger-six-months-after-teen-killed-at-ingraham-high/

It's About Time To Pay Your Inflated Property Taxes

 

In case you were wondering just how much you pay for public education living in Seattle Its around 57% of you property tax bill. per King county.