tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1317770170474039861.post2707807656803598382..comments2024-03-28T22:53:23.117-05:00Comments on Jeff Bergosh Blog: Why We Should Site Adapt our New Construction ProjectsJeff Bergoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12638001957494810839noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1317770170474039861.post-22562691130474448982015-06-20T06:45:23.420-05:002015-06-20T06:45:23.420-05:00Anonymous--believe it or not your comment is not c...Anonymous--believe it or not your comment is not completely off-topic. Many of Warrington Middle School's former students now attend Jim Bailey Middle School, which is now significantly over-capacity. There is not currently a plan to fix this being formally presented to the board, which is a travesty because Bailey has been over-crowded for a decade. The Superintendents alluded to a potential reason for this in our last workshop when I asked about why Bailey's long-running problem was not being addressed in any of the planned $75Million building projects. At one point in the meeting, he mentioned that "If we get Warrington where it needs to be then many that are attending other schools will come back" --or something very similar, I'm paraphrasing here. I caught that, and so now it makes sense why Bailey's needs are not addressed---however this is the wrong way to proceed. Leaving Warrington MS 54% utilized while Bailey is 108% of capacity "hoping fixing Warrington will alleviate Bailey's overcrowding" is wishful thinking. So back to Warrington. Of course we know the principal got 3 steps to move from Ferry Pass to Warrington--and I like Dr. Lipnick and think highly of her--so I hope she can turn this school around. If you watch the video of that discussion about funding year two of the one year school turnaround, you will see I voted against year "2" of the "One Year Turnaround Solution" because the rosy presentation to the board alluded to the fact that things are indeed looking up at Warrington MS but I've been told there are still significant academic and discipline issues at that school. Obviously, with the release of the limited information on EOC tests, we see Warrington is not doing so well after all, and it is interesting they wanted a vote on another year of these consultants before the test data were released. I voted NO. It was a 4-1 vote so we are now officially in year 2 of the one year turnaround at Warrington, after 6 years of increased spending, facilities improvements, extra staff, extra resources, etc. etc. At some point this school has to perform without an artificially inflated staff and inordinate levels of resources that are being provided; put simply-we can't keep hanging on to the notion that we just need to keep on spending at Warrington---they are down to only 650 kids in a facility that has been renovated at a cost of $millions of dollars and is designed for 1200. Something has to give. Jeff Bergoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12638001957494810839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1317770170474039861.post-82419998328073432792015-06-19T20:52:36.965-05:002015-06-19T20:52:36.965-05:00This is unrelated to this post, but since I can...This is unrelated to this post, but since I can't find a link simply to email a question to you, I'm going to go ahead and ask my question here. Some scores have been released and Warrington Middle is at the bottom (FCAT Science and Civics EOC). What happened? District hired new admin (bumping them several steps to get them there) and paid how many hundreds of thousands for a "one year turnaround" company? Didn't the new Principal just recently give a presentation to the Board about how much better they expected their scores to be? It ain't looking good...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com