T.-4 22-0571 Adoption by the Board of Education of Resolution No. 2122-0202 - Finding That East Bay Innovation Academy (EBIA), a Charter School, Cannot Be Accommodated At A Single Site and Written Statement Of Reasoning; Adopting Issuance of Proposition 39 Facilities Offers and Directing Staff to Issue Written Final Offers in Compliance with Proposition 39.
High school students should not be on a middle school campus. Montera has plenty of problems (such as the lack of a 7th grade math teacher for half the year) without compounding social/emotional challenges by bring older teens on campus. Vote no!
We need public schools to have full access to students and families who choose to send their children to public schools. Charter schools are not public schools. There are plenty vacant buildings in Oakland where charter schools can locate.
I strongly oppose having HS students share the same space as our Middle School students. Developmentally the children are in very different space. I have seen the administration struggle to deal with the bevvy of issues that already challenge Montera (academic standards, achievement, quality of instruction, student on campus safety, etc). All of these issues will only be compounded by the presence of older students, who present their own challenges. I have sympathy towards the Charter School administration, students, parents & families involved but don't think the proposed solution is a good one. It will only make a bad situation at one school, a worse situation for 2 schools.
Montera needs all of its classrooms and it needs to create a community feeling that all students on campus have a common structure and are accountable to all teachers and staff. I strongly oppose having high school age students on the Montera campus. The whole purpose of middle school campuses is to give young teens their own transitional time and culture where they are not striving to meet high school cultural norms.
If this occurs and a charter high school is on site at Montera, I will not send my child there when he is in MS. I am strongly opposed to this. Montera is already a very crowded campus with a milieu of problems and the children do not need additional children on campus, particularly high schoolers.
The Montera school campus is already at capacity and utilizing all classrooms to their fullest extent. Furthermore I do not support having highschoolers on the Montera campus
It is a cruel irony that OUSD is considering Montera Middle School classrooms for EBIA. I had a child in 5th grade at Montclair when the EBIA founders were granted a charter. The founders recruited heavily from Montclair -- among other affluent schools -- a school that historically sent about 50% of its students on to Montera. That percentage dropped to about 25% when EBIA successfully recruited a number of Montclair kids. My child went to Montera, where parental involvement in time and money saw an immediate and precipitous decline, in part because the time and money that so many families would have provided to Montera went to EBIA instead. Why on earth should Montera now have to support EBIA with classrooms? For once, it would be great to see the OUSD board support its regular schools instead of the charters. Moreover, middle school students should not be sharing a site with high school students. They are at different physical, emotional, and intellectual stages of development.
High school students should not be on a middle school campus. Montera has plenty of problems (such as the lack of a 7th grade math teacher for half the year) without compounding social/emotional challenges by bring older teens on campus. Vote no!
We need public schools to have full access to students and families who choose to send their children to public schools. Charter schools are not public schools. There are plenty vacant buildings in Oakland where charter schools can locate.
Ethan Pintard
I strongly oppose having HS students share the same space as our Middle School students. Developmentally the children are in very different space. I have seen the administration struggle to deal with the bevvy of issues that already challenge Montera (academic standards, achievement, quality of instruction, student on campus safety, etc). All of these issues will only be compounded by the presence of older students, who present their own challenges. I have sympathy towards the Charter School administration, students, parents & families involved but don't think the proposed solution is a good one. It will only make a bad situation at one school, a worse situation for 2 schools.
Montera needs all of its classrooms and it needs to create a community feeling that all students on campus have a common structure and are accountable to all teachers and staff. I strongly oppose having high school age students on the Montera campus. The whole purpose of middle school campuses is to give young teens their own transitional time and culture where they are not striving to meet high school cultural norms.
If this occurs and a charter high school is on site at Montera, I will not send my child there when he is in MS. I am strongly opposed to this. Montera is already a very crowded campus with a milieu of problems and the children do not need additional children on campus, particularly high schoolers.
The Montera campus is already full and have a terrible impact on our students with special needs.
The Montera school campus is already at capacity and utilizing all classrooms to their fullest extent. Furthermore I do not support having highschoolers on the Montera campus
It is a cruel irony that OUSD is considering Montera Middle School classrooms for EBIA. I had a child in 5th grade at Montclair when the EBIA founders were granted a charter. The founders recruited heavily from Montclair -- among other affluent schools -- a school that historically sent about 50% of its students on to Montera. That percentage dropped to about 25% when EBIA successfully recruited a number of Montclair kids. My child went to Montera, where parental involvement in time and money saw an immediate and precipitous decline, in part because the time and money that so many families would have provided to Montera went to EBIA instead. Why on earth should Montera now have to support EBIA with classrooms? For once, it would be great to see the OUSD board support its regular schools instead of the charters. Moreover, middle school students should not be sharing a site with high school students. They are at different physical, emotional, and intellectual stages of development.
Montera is a big middle school and does not need additional students from another school on campus.