SCHOOLS & KIDS
Daylight Savings Time - too early for families
I am having problems with summeritis. My kids think it is summer what with the weather and staying light til past 7.00. They don't want to come in to eat dinner until its dar... |
Parent |
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on Mar 13, 2007 at 7:52 pm by RS, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Santa Cruz charging parents for kids' vacations.
According to channel 2 today, Santa Cruz schools are charging their students' $35 a day they are out of school on vacation during school time. This is because they don't get f... |
Parent |
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on Mar 12, 2007 at 12:41 pm by sheeeeesh, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Amazing Grace
Having spent countless hours in the last five years working with Grace Mah in her pursuit of a Mandarin Immersion choice program, I have come to admire her enormously, not onl... |
Daunna |
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55 |
on Mar 11, 2007 at 7:05 pm by OhlonePar, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Menlo Park has NOT banned homework
The recent news reports suggesting that Menlo Park has banned homework are highly inaccurate. Principal Ackerman at Oak Knoll took initiative this year to reign in homework l... |
Name |
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4 |
on Mar 10, 2007 at 8:09 am by Equal Justice, a resident of the Fairmeadow neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
PAUSD Board votes to pay Los Altos Charter School
According to the PA Weekly Home Page, PAUSD Board has agreed to pay Bullis Charter School a per pupil fee if PA students decide to attend that school and if Los Altos becomes ... |
Someone who doesn\'t understand |
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on Mar 8, 2007 at 5:02 pm by OhlonePar, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
More housing = more Kids
For those of you who are wondering about our continual increase in enrollment and the need for re-districting our school boundaries as well as the concerns for neighborhood sc... |
ToldUSo |
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on Mar 7, 2007 at 4:48 pm by A PARENT, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
PAUSD: Passion for Learning/Thinking outside the box
We have been exploring schools here, private vs. public. I have heard several parents at different PAUSD school complain that their children get burned out by the heavy focus ... |
Parent of incoming kinder |
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on Mar 7, 2007 at 4:01 pm by \\\'sigh\\, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Profound Insult to PAUSD Community
I hope that others are as outraged as I am right now after reading the passage set forth below:
A CHAMPION FOR ALL: SELECTING
A NEW SUPERINTENDENT FOR PAUSD.
A PARENT-INI... |
Parent |
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on Mar 7, 2007 at 2:16 pm by Parent, a member of the Palo Alto High School community |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
MI Issue has divided this town
Now that the Board has rejected the MI proposal (at least for the time being) we need to build some bridges across this town to fix the divide that has occurred as a result of... |
Parent |
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on Mar 6, 2007 at 6:53 pm by a parent, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Hoover: Location for a Charter in PAUSD
If PAUSD is forced to provide space for a charter school, one solution would be to locate it at one of the sites currently used for commuter choice programs. This would min... |
Enjoy PAUSD Choice |
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on Mar 6, 2007 at 6:16 pm by NICOLE, a resident of the Fairmeadow neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Opening 13th elementary school voted down
I'm discouraged about the 3-2 vote last night NOT to proceed with re-opening Garland. But I'm more concerned that the school board doesn't seem to have a clear trigger point f... |
Palo Verde parent |
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on Mar 6, 2007 at 6:10 pm by OhlonePar, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
What role should polls play in local government?
A survey commissioned by the Palo Alto City Council showed that a majority, but fewer than two-thirds, of those surveyed would support bond measures for library improvements a... |
Tyler Hanley |
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1 |
on Mar 6, 2007 at 10:11 am by Kate, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
We are over stretching and over stressing our kids!!
We now have two tutoring services in midtown. I believe that the evidence from some of the recent threads, plus these two very busy tutoring services, that we are going overbo... |
Parent |
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6 |
on Mar 5, 2007 at 9:03 pm by A PERENT, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Seeking Shelter for Our Kids
I am curious how families in Palo Alto are "sheltering" their kids from the pressures of school, the competitive culture, etc. following up to my column in yesterday's Weekly ... |
Lucy F. |
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8 |
on Mar 5, 2007 at 8:51 pm by A PARENT, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Looking for family day care center in Palo Alto area
I am looking for a family daycare center in Palo Alto area. Can you recomend any? I have a 5 and a 9 year-old that needs afternoon day care. Thanks in advance for any info.
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carolina |
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0 |
on Mar 5, 2007 at 7:33 pm by carolina, a resident of the Evergreen Park neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
LA Hills Redistricting Plan Would Impact Palo Alto Schools
Los Altos Hills City Council is taking steps to create a new kindergarten through eighth grade school district within its town boundaries. This issue has significant ramificat... |
Brewster |
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on Mar 5, 2007 at 12:46 pm by Board Observer, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Do Palo Altans want a Charter School?
I think the answer is "no". We have nowhere to house a charter school and the moneys we have need to go into the schools we already have. I don't really understand all the de... |
Parent |
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on Mar 4, 2007 at 1:19 pm by OhlonePar, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
School registration process
What was your experience with the school registration process? I applied on 02/05/07 for 5th grade, 2007-8 school year. It turns out that my application has not been entered i... |
Lillian Kvitko |
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on Feb 28, 2007 at 5:32 pm by Lillian Kvitko, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Environmental Health of Portable Classrooms
While I have heard much discussion of school population with respect to portables, I haven't heard anything about the issue of the health impacts to those spending time in the... |
Annette |
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3 |
on Feb 24, 2007 at 7:47 pm by SkepticAl, a resident of the Ventura neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Are PAUSD Schools Excellent?
I stretched myself thin to move to Palo Alto, and I squeezed my three kids into a small 1000 square foot house (1 bathroom, no dishwasher, no garbage disposal, 3 small bedroom... |
Working Mother of Three |
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on Feb 24, 2007 at 4:33 pm by parent, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
is duveneck overflown this year?
I registered my kid for the neighborhood school Duveneck in early Jan for their kindergarden class starting fall 2007. I have not received anything yet from the school about ... |
a new duveneck parent |
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6 |
on Feb 21, 2007 at 2:00 pm by Parent, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Elementary school placement
What experiences have you had with elementary school placement? Which school would we most likely be placed into for 5th grade next school year? Are all the schools OK? What d... |
Lillian Kvitko |
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8 |
on Feb 21, 2007 at 12:57 pm by DJ, a resident of the Palo Verde neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Climate change and planning for our kids' futures
Is a habitable planet as important as, say, a good college education? There's a big disconnect in this community around attitudes about global warming, particularly for those ... |
PA Concerned Mom |
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on Feb 18, 2007 at 10:15 pm by OhlonePar, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
What happened to civility?
What kind of a community do we want? If you read Town Square postings on school district issues, would you want to be the new superintendent of the Palo Alto Unified School Di... |
Mandy Lowell & Carolyn Tucher |
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on Feb 18, 2007 at 1:03 pm by Anna, a resident of the South of Midtown neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Paly Choirs present ... With Love, from Paris
The Palo Alto High School choirs are happy to announce their annual Valentines Concert, which features the Concert Choir, Madrigals, Spectrum Singers, Viking Men's Chorus and ... |
Theresa |
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on Feb 15, 2007 at 9:19 am by Paly Parent, a member of the Palo Alto High School community |
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