[klaatumail] Fwd: New Student
- From: A Mark Witherspoon <wmarkwitherspoon@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Alex <klaatumail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:38:49 -0700
Mark
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> From: "Kalkoske, Ginny" <gkalkoske@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: September 20, 2010 3:26:15 PM PDT
> To: <wmarkwitherspoon@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <leswitherspoon@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: FW: New Student
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> From: Rigor, Rogelio
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 2:38 PM
> To: Nash, Cindy L
> Cc: Thompson, Paulette; Boryboun, Lisa; Kalkoske, Ginny
> Subject: RE: New Student
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> It is important that the parents are told and convinced that our program is
> for students who have completed their required sophomore credits to be
> eligible as juniors.
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> From: Nash, Cindy L
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 2:10 PM
> To: Rigor, Rogelio
> Cc: Thompson, Paulette; Boryboun, Lisa; Kalkoske, Ginny
> Subject: Re: New Student
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> He is absolutely not appropriate for UW, especially because he does not want
> to be there.
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> Ginny,
> Please work with Alex to find another placement.
> Thanks!
> Cindy
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> From: Rigor, Rogelio
> To: Nash, Cindy L
> Cc: Thompson, Paulette; Boryboun, Lisa
> Sent: Mon Sep 20 12:37:51 2010
> Subject: New Student
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> Hello, Cindy,
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> We have a student, Alex Witherspoon (6755219), who we are curious was
> assigned here in the first place: he does not have a single Social Studies
> credit except for Washington State History. It will require for him to do 3
> years of Social Studies before he can graduate. He has only an LA 9a for his
> LA classes. He came from Nova. He will not be able to graduate here at Wells
> given this.
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> He was here for the three-day orientation and he told us that it was his mom
> who insisted that he attend our school when in fact, what he truly wanted was
> to get his GED and move on to a technical/apprenticeship program because he
> wants to do hands-on carpentry/cabinetry.
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> From experience, we have seen students like Alex, and given our highly
> academic focus in reading and writing, this is a case that will not work for
> him. Besides, the required graduate credits will not be enough.
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> It will be unfair for the student to think that this will work for him.
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> We need to either talk to his parents about his options or convince them that
> Wells School is really for strong juniors and seniors.
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> The sooner this is done, the better.
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> Thanks. Rogelio
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