Comments on: Puyallup School District won’t move to middle school grade configuration http://blog.thenewstribune.com/street/2012/07/09/puyallup-school-district-wont-move-to-middle-school-grade-configuration/ The latest news in and around Tacoma, Pierce County and South Puget Sound Thu, 23 May 2013 08:06:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: whitecap http://blog.thenewstribune.com/street/2012/07/09/puyallup-school-district-wont-move-to-middle-school-grade-configuration/#comment-50061 whitecap Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:02:45 +0000 http://blog.thenewstribune.com/street/?p=12012#comment-50061 The lack of continuity in WA schools confuses me. If middle schools are good for kids in Tacoma, Sumner, and Orting, why hasn’t Puyallup switched a long time ago? Are the kids in Puyallup so different from kids in those other districts? Why is it that each district gets to make these kinds of decisions for itself? The same question could also be asked of math and writing programs, to name just two examples. If writing program A is the best for students in Gig Harbor, why isn’t it also the best program for students in University Place? Why does each district in the state spend so much time, effort, and money to decide what’s best for it, when apparently some other district has already done that work? I guess I’d prefer a system where a committee at the state level determines what programs will be used and what learning targets will be aimed at. Stop the district by district decision making.

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