Save a Teacher at Gatewood

Seattle Public Schools needs to do better by our students, teachers and administrators. The three parents who thought of the Friends of Gatewood direct drive are parents like so many of you in our district. Our relationship with Gatewood, which has strengthened over the 10+ years looks like this: advocating for our students (at local, city and state levels), volunteering as PTA Board Officers, supporting the other awesome West Seattle Public School PTSA’s, and nurturing the mission that great things happen when kids have a safe, proactive and collaborative school. After last year’s over capacity enrollment nightmare, we started the 2014-15 year with a more beneficial outcome in student enrollment. We are passionate and determined to not let the education of our students be interrupted by the SPS’s latest decision. Gatewood started with 18 classroom teachers, and we want to keep the same 18 teachers. We want every Gatewood administrator, teacher, interventionist, EBD specialist, ELL teacher, librarian and Everybody Teacher that comes to work every day to teach our children. Fairmount Park Elementary requires another teacher. They need our region’s support, too. Class and staffing disruption is not going to happen, not if we have something to say about it.