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Plymouth-Canton looking to Lease Washington in2006
Topic Started: Dec 21 2005, 01:11 AM (896 Views)
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http://www.pccs.k12.mi.us/

Check out the link to the Housing Committee Agenda for Dec. 20
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And here it is........... INCREDIBLE..... man, that was fast!

Plymouth-Canton Community Schools
Housing Committee for 2005 – 2006
AGENDA
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
West Middle School Media Center
1. Welcome, introductions of committee members (with revised committee list) and review of minutes
2. Citizen Comments.
Citizens wishing to comment will give their name and address in writing to the committee chairperson.
3. Identify middle schools likely to be overcrowded next year and schools likely to have space next year.
a. Review the data generated at our November 15 meeting
b. Chart of elementary feeder schools to each middle school
b. Make note of new developments assigned to each school and the possible impact of growth in these developments.
c. Identify schools with possible issues next year
4. Overview of the district proposal to lease Washington Elementary from Livonia Schools for the 2006 – 2007 school year.See the attached document for more information.
5. Implications of this proposal for the work of the Housing Committee
6. Any questions or concerns?
7. Next meetings: Tuesday, January 17 and Tuesday, January 31 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at West Middle School Media Center
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Notice how the meeting was the night after "VOTE" being approved? Well, if you look back on that website, you will see that the Dec. 20 meeting was supposed to two weeks earlier. That would have been on Dec. 6, the night after the "VOTE" at Churchill. They cancelled the Dec. 6 housing agenda and moved it to Dec. 20. That's a bit too coincidental.....hummm!
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A poor choice of words on my behalf were used in this space previously. I meant to imply that only I had not heard of this rumor before I received confirmation of it. The initial info came from an anonymous phone caller who implied something was up. When I received info on this, I was amazed that some parents knew before me......I'm sorry for stating that anyone other than myself was un-informed.

Tom

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Dec 22 2005, 06:28 PM
Once again our community proves that it is more informed than it's board members!!!!

I had to read it here....amazing.......you people really know how to dig....I think I need a few lessons!!!!

I knew nothing about this......I will take a guess and say that since us board members don't micro-manage the district office, they kind of just have a free hand to what is good for the district and then when they have the lease all ready to go , then they come to us and say....we have rented out a school! So then we vote and it's a done deal.....

I'm so glad I came to this site......I'm learning so much!

Tom

This is exactly what the administration is hoping for, that you are uninformed, that way they can push things through, but we elected you to be informed and make the right decisions for our children and the community.
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Rose
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The distict office is not being micro-managed......it's being mis-managed. Yes, we the people elected the BOE.......but as we know with many elections...what you see is not always what you get.
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I just wrote a letter to a Detroit News reporter regarding this subject.
It is very strange that 15 days after the BS vote on Legacy, Plymouth Canton Schools has put this topic on their school board agenda.
What REALLY bothers me is the way the meeting was planned, calling for:

"4. Overview of the district proposal to lease Washington Elementary from Livonia Schools for the 2006 – 2007 school year."

When and how did Plymouth Canton Schools get information regarding Washington closing?
I will tell you this...... IT WAS BEFORE THE VOTE ON THE 5th !!!!!!!!!!
The key words here are "OVERVIEW OF DISTRICTS PROPOSAL"

I went to Plymouth-Canton Schools and so did my wife. There is NO WAY they are organized enough to put a proposal together in 5 days!

Dirty man..... this whole thing just STINKS of inside politics.

BTW..... Plymouth Canton has put together a "committee" also. If you know parents in that district, make sure they find out what this "committee" is up too.
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Rose
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A friend has kids in Plymouth-Canton. They have been experiencing a growth spurt for the last several years. Her kids elementary school was built a few years ago and they are going to be building another not too far away. Of course their was talk going on behind the scenes.
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Dec 26 2005, 07:05 PM
A friend has kids in Plymouth-Canton. They have been experiencing a growth spurt for the last several years. Her kids elementary school was built a few years ago and they are going to be building another not too far away. Of course their was talk going on behind the scenes.

they are fixing up one of their older schools. Maybe this is why they would use Washington? Who knows why they do what they do. Ply/Canton is pretty messed up themselves.
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I'd really like to get to the bottom of this. How come TAB didn't know about this? How about the other six BOE members? If our BOE knew nothing, who did? Most likely, Dr. Liepa must have been communicating with Plymouth-Canton. Was he acting alone other with the help of some of his staff?
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foodforthought
Dec 30 2005, 03:17 PM
Rose
Dec 26 2005, 07:05 PM
A friend has kids in Plymouth-Canton. They have been experiencing a growth spurt for the last several years. Her kids elementary school was built a few years ago and they are going to be building another not too far away. Of course their was talk going on behind the scenes.

they are fixing up one of their older schools. Maybe this is why they would use Washington? Who knows why they do what they do. Ply/Canton is pretty messed up themselves.

What do you mean by this? Just curious. Haven't talked to friend in awhile about the schools.
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Rose
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c3hull
Dec 30 2005, 05:45 PM
I'd really like to get to the bottom of this. How come TAB didn't know about this? How about the other six BOE members? If our BOE knew nothing, who did? Most likely, Dr. Liepa must have been communicating with Plymouth-Canton. Was he acting alone other with the help of some of his staff?

I would also like the answer to that one. Good question.
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TAB
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Please see my post up above as I have modified it for correction.

Tom

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http://www.hometownlife.com/apps/pbcs.dll/...404/1204/NEWS15

Article published Jan 19, 2006
Livonia lease a good option

The few parents who are sniffling because Plymouth-Canton school officials shifted their course of action to deal with renovations at Miller Elementary School are off-base.

There has been some limited whining the last couple of weeks since school officials have been negotiating with their counterparts in the Livonia school district to rent Washington Elementary, the school at Ann Arbor Road and Hix which Livonia officials will close in a restructuring of their district because of declining enrollment.

Plymouth-Canton needs more space because a $4.5 million renovation plan at Miller Elementary is forcing the district to close that school for an entire school year. That means P-C officials have to find somewhere for the general students and Talented and Gifted students to go to school next year.

The grousing comes because Plymouth-Canton Supt. Jim Ryan originally announced those students would be moved to the new Workman Elementary School in Canton's Cherry Hill Village, a school scheduled to open in August.

The whining goes something like this (and we're paraphrasing here): "First, the district told us one thing, then they said another. How are our kids supposed to adjust?"

But Ryan's initial announcement came well before the December decision by the Livonia Board of Education to close schools and realign its district. Plymouth-Canton officials can scarcely be faulted for exploring new options, particularly when they provide a better solution than cramming all those students into one building for a year.

Miller students are going to be bused somewhere, either to a school (Workman) that would then be bursting at the seams or to an empty school (Washington) the district will have to pay some $225,000, about what it would have cost them to run Miller for the year in the first place.

The busing distance to both alternatives is the same, about 4.5 miles, so the students were going to have to adjust either way. This way, most of them will have their own building rather than having to jam into Workman.

Workman won't be big enough for everyone, but the district plans to put the TAG kids at Workman for a year, with the rest going to Washington. That will allow the district to draw attendance boundaries that will allow students living within sight of Workman to attend the school, rather than having them bused right past it.

Children generally prove to be far more resilient than adults, a fact we're confident will allow them to adjust to their new surroundings at Washington. Parents are right to be concerned their children are given every opportunity to succeed with as little stress as possible.

Assuming a lease is worked out with Livonia, that's exactly what Plymouth-Canton school officials are doing here.

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Ryan's initial announcement came well before the December decision by the Livonia Board of Education to close schools and realign its district. Plymouth-Canton officials can scarcely be faulted for exploring new options, particularly when they provide a better solution than cramming all those students into one building for a year.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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