[House] Fwd: Reply to Digital Communications Poll

[RJ Johnson]

My response to Henry is below Thor's reply to me. Wanted to share them both.

RJ

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Boucher, Thor <bouchert at sfusd.edu>
Date: Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: Reply to Digital Communications Poll
To: RJ Johnson <rmjwell at gmail.com>


Thanks for sending this along.

I wasn't aware of the poll. I have been trying to share with Henry that we
may *add* digital communications as another method, but not at the expense
of our families that choose not to/cannot access digital devices. We have
been going round and round about it.

Best,


*~Dr. Thor*


*THORBOUCHER, Ph.D. *

Principal,
Monroe Elementary School

San Francisco Unified School District

260 Madrid Street

San Francisco, CA 94112

O: 415.469.4736

E: bouchert at sfusd.edu


On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 9:40 AM RJ Johnson <rmjwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, Thor. I hope you and yours are doing well!
>
> I wrote the following in response to Henry's post and poll and then
> noticed the distribution appears as if it is only seen by the last admins
> and Henry; I could be wrong about that.
>
> In the event it isn't more visible than that, i wanted to share it with
> you.
>
> Wishing you good health and good spirits,
> RJ
>
> ===
>
>
>
> Hi, Henry. We do need to improve the quality of our schools for all of our
> children, our teachers our staff, our community... all of us. And I believe
> that improvement will have to take many forms to reflect the diversity of
> our community, both at Monroe and throughout San Francisco.
>
> Different people learn in different ways: one person can absorb
> information from a screen; someone else will want direct human interaction
> with a teacher or coach; some people sit down with paper and pencil and
> figure things out that way. None are invalid, they are simply different.
> What we have to be careful about is not enshrining one difference as
> arbitrarily better to the exclusion of others.
>
> Consider this email and the poll. Does it reach all of the families of
> Monroe? If it does not, how are we asking for the input of the remaining
> families?
>
> I believe the heart of education has to be equity for all. Let's use this
> time to see what disparities are exposed in things we have taken for
> granted and consider how best to address them as a community. Digital
> interaction may be one of them, but I don't believe it is the only one or
> the most important.
>
> Be well everyone,
>
> RJ Johnson
> School Site Council Chair
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.digitalkingdom.org/pipermail/house/attachments/20200421/da634b5f/attachment-0001.html>