On Tuesday, June 15th, SAA held its annual constituency meeting at 7:00 p.m. in the school auditorium. It was the best kept secret school community meeting of the year. No wait, that would be every monthly school board meeting. Either way, Eyes on SAA has attempted to source information from that meeting to present a report which we will be releasing soon. Remember, we are volunteers with jobs and families too! See the end of this message for a recruitment call.
While our report is being finalized, here are some important questions for SAA Stakeholders and observers to think about. More than that, they are questions for SAA’s official leadership to respond to - just don’t hold your breath on that or you'll get hypoxia. Or maybe they will shock the world with some substantive answers by addressing questions that are “beneath them” originating from this blog. We use this tone because SAA never even acknowledged the figurative 144,000 Judie Rosa Petition signers just over 2 months ago. For the record, there were 144 signers. For fun we just multiplied that by 1,000 for a prophetic, apocalyptic, Revelation Chapter 7 flourish.
10 Questions About “The Best Kept Secret” SAA Constituency Meeting
1. Did you even know this meeting was taking place? Probably not, unless you were paying very close attention to announcements in the Spencerville Church, or to this blogsite.
2. Did SAA send a notice or announcement of any kind to its families about this meeting? No, unless we missed it, neither SAA’s Head Principal nor its Board Chair sent any notice at all to its students, parents, or families of this meeting. Have their emails been disabled too?
3. Was the Constituency Meeting open to the public to attend and ask questions? We have no official answer or confirmation about that. If such a thing were encouraged, wouldn’t one expect for this information to be conspicuously announced within the school community.
4. What happens at a CM? No meeting agenda was published on the church or school website.
5. What happened at this CM? No report of the meeting has been published on the church or school website.
6. Who are the delegates? You would have to so some digging for this one, but if you happen to be a member of the Spencerville Church and scour their bulletin you would have seen a list. Or you may have come across this list on our blog’s informative and thought-provoking post from June 10 on delegate selection “Constituency Meeting or Couples’ Retreat?”
7. Was it livestreamed? No. SAA did not even send one e-mail to its parents about this meeting where important and crucial information is presented.
8. Was it recorded for later viewing? It would have been possible to do so with modern technology for the benefit of those community stakeholders who were interested in attending, but could not for legitimate reasons like summer vacation travel , work scheduling conflicts, or personal health concerns, etc.
9. What documentation was provided to delegates? At past constituency meetings, there have been repeated requests for information to be distributed in writing to attendees. SAA families weren’t provided any information for this meeting (or even any official notice it was going to happen), so important information about the school is apparently only provided to the delegates.
10. Were any resolutions or decisions made at the meeting? If there were, SAA hasn’t informed its families about it.
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With many families leaving SAA due to their child's graduation, or others due to frustration and disgust, we are looking for more volunteers, more “eyes” on SAA for “Eyes on SAA”. Remember, we are here to make SAA better by reporting on important issues happening at the school, to keep stakeholders informed, and to work towards improving the school by keeping its leadership honest and accountable (transparency is too far off right now). We are "the medicine" that the SAA leadership desperately needs, but like an obstinate child, refuses to take for their own good. So, if you would like to help “Eyes on SAA”, please contact us and we will reply back to you. We of course will respect your request for anonymity so that you may report without fear of reprisal from official channels, which is an actual thing in the Spencerville community.
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- Lillian Hepburn-Richmond (a cohort of concerned parents)