Are Portland Public Schools Unfixable?

Roosevelt High School Students Polite and Respectful

Looked like the Weight of the World was on their Shoulders

The Portland Public School (PPS) adult world is lost, through perhaps decades of disconnect, corruption and veiled eyes, it now has a school full of teens exhibiting sadness and confusion. Most walked by the signs in silence, masked up, some said, “Thank you”, mask free, a few engaged, and very few lashed out with taunts.

Given the poster signs were in place prior to lunch, Roosevelt staff and security were on alert and perhaps put pressure on students, leaving for lunch, to not engage.

Some took a homework assignment to give to their teachers. Truth in the Pacific Northwest was told about 10% of students inside the school were not going into their classrooms, but simply remaining in the halls, refusing to go into the classrooms. Sort of a passive-aggressive rebellion, perhaps?

Information given to some students who engaged in conversation included that China from day one told America masks are not for coronaviruses, that mask boxes informed buyers of that fact. Arguing about this and that expert isn't necessary when you have the mask boxes telling you masks don't work for viruses.

Occam's Razor.

One student said he would look up the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) website for their information webpage that COVID-19 has no vaccine that prevents COVID-19. December 7^th from OHA’s website:

Portland Public School District board, superintendent and administrative staff continue to not release the water test results. Students continue to be on bottled water.

Senior Manager of Environmental and Safety at Bborgeson@pps.net Brett Borgeson was advised students, parents and the public want to know the water test results.

Out of the total 95 Portland Public schools, in the last 90 to 100 years, only four have been recently renovated, and those are Roosevelt, Grant, Franklin, and Madison high schools.  

PPS, has been silent as a mouse about what has contaminated the Roosevelt High School water, and how long has that heat exchanger had problems? Perhaps since 2016? The water sample was taken November 18, 2021. Where are the test results?

Oregon/Live wrote an editorial in 2106 when newly renovated Roosevelt High School opening day was delayed, describing PPS’ communication style as their “…Achilles Heel”.

https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2016/08/at_pps_a_missed_opportunity_at.html

Since no child has died in the last two years of the virus called COVID-19, more and more folks want to know what the real reason is that public schools were shut down?

One Roosevelt High School student shared in her middle school years, her school had a problem with lead, and one of her friends tested the highest for having lead in her system.

Inside sources state the asbestos problems has also not been resolved in perhaps in the majority of the public schools in Portland. How long, deep and dark are the secrets in the Portland Public School system?

Are these problems left unresolved because the money went elsewhere? Do teachers and administrative staff retire to a nice PERS pension plan while students have been left in buildings that further decay each year, and now a new one has a water contamination problem that superintendent Guerrero is being quiet as a mouse about.

Scott Adams of Dilbert comic fame said in the beginning of 2021 that the biggest story the media is not covering is the collapse of the public school system and teachers unions.

If these public school systems are crashing, is it time for other solutions to be recognized? 

Other school options via parents protecting their children have emerged. 

It is time to let the 1776 American spirit fully emerge with solutions. In 1776 Americans were highly literate. Many slaves were literate. After the Civil War freed Black men were elected to Congress. Is it time to end the German compulsory government school system that got lodged into America in 1854 fade away, and let that original American spirit come back and revive America? 

Parents want their children safe and protected.

 

December 11, 2021