QAE Community Meeting on Boundaries & Option Status - 3/29/17, 6:30p.m.

Principal Roy sent the below message to the Queen Anne Elementary community today. Please read below. We hope to see you on Wednesday, March 29th at 6:30 p.m. at the QAE Cafeteria. If you can't attend or want to share comments in other ways, you can write Janine directly at jbroy@seattleschools.org or contact the QAE PTSA at communications@qaeptsa.org.

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Dear QAE Families/Guardians:

On March 13th, a Community Meeting was held at Catherine Blaine with families from Coe, Catherine Blaine, and Lawton to discuss boundary changes regarding Magnolia Elementary, which will open in the Fall of 2018.   (Information can be found on the Magnolia Elementary Boundary Planning Page). This page will continue to be updated throughout the process.  All questions and feedback can be sent to: growthboundaries@seattleschools.org.)   Queen Anne Elementary and John Hay Elementary communities were not part of this Community Meeting as the potential Magnolia boundaries were not anticipated to impact our schools.  I was invited to attend the meeting as a neighboring principal.  At the meeting, some participants made suggestions about easing the overcrowding at our neighborhood schools that would affect Queen Anne Elementary.  These suggestions were unanticipated, and they need to be discussed within our community and with our neighboring communities.

Following the Community Meeting, I met with Director of Enrollment Planning, Ashley Davies, and Enrollment Planning Project Specialist, E.R. Alvarez to work together to look at how Magnolia Elementary’s opening in 2018 will impact schools in our neighborhood.   I invited Ashley Davies and E.R. Alvarez to come to a Queen Anne Elementary Community Meeting to be held on Wednesday, March 29th @ 6:30 PM in the QAE cafeteria to answer community questions from QAE families, share boundary procedures and gather our parent community feedback on how we can help overcrowding in our neighboring schools. 

Many thanks to our QAE community for working together on this. As QAE PTSA President Heath Dixon says, "This is a perfect time for us to model what we're teaching our children about how to handle challenges.  Let’s help to share the facts calmly within and outside of our community and help our neighbors solve this problem collaboratively. We need to contribute to the district's process of making decisions about boundaries in our neighborhoods.  That starts by encouraging communication and understanding."

I am gathering all of the information I can to compile questions, comments, or suggestions from you before the meeting so that the format for the meeting can be set according to our community’s needs.  Please email me at jbroy@seattleschools.org to share your input.

Janine

Janine Roy
Principal
Queen Anne Elementary
411 Boston Street
Seattle,  WA
98109
206-252-2480