Real Professionals and Parent's Suffer For District's "Breakdown In Communication"

I find it interesting that parents of public school children just seem to never get it right. A while back we heard they are not involved:

'I'm really appalled at the lack of community attendance at this meeting,' school board member Jack Lamb scolded ....."

Elia Apologizes Again For Bus Schedule Confusion:

or, they are helicopter parents that spew

"misinformation, anger and ugliness", according to the statements made by Ms. Elia in the Dec. 17th, board meeting.

In today's Times', we see that the Alafia gang, true to their history of advocating for the public to be involved in the public education system, asked the systemic questions that are needed to be asked:

"What is it you're going to do to ensure this isn't going to happen at other schools?" asked Dawn Nichols,......"

Frustrated Alafia Elementary parents welcome change in principals - St. Petersburg Times:

"Elia said that she would re-evaluate the way principals are reviewed. Citing a breakdown in communication, she also said that the district shouldn't have gone so long without having meetings with parents."

I seem to recall there was an awful lot of anger and ugliness that was aimed at these parents. There were comments made on blogs and local newspaper's public comment sections. Some of the posters claimed they were close to the action, so one would assume they were either employees of the system or were a confidante of an employee. These supporters of the system seemed to take satisfaction with the idea that if parents or teachers didn't like what was going on, get the hell out and good riddance. All of that anger and ugliness at the same time the public is told that the school people are the professionals and are experts at running their business of education.

What should be noted is that there were also many comments among these postings from employees asking for help. At least the parents can't be fired for voicing their concerns over a long period of time.

And now we find out it was simply a "breakdown in communication."

Yesterday, I witnessed a lot of gifts being opened that were designed to fool the gift receiver. What one might think was a box of chocolates turned out to be a shirt, or there was a small piece of jewelery in the biggest box under the tree.

I can just imagine how all of the real professional, responsible employees and the responsible parents that were involved in this Alafia debacle feel hearing that there was a "breakdown in communication." Do you think they really believe that is what is in the box of chocolates?