Program Review : How can you Help?
The alternative program is at risk. Now is the time to speak up!
The school board's "review" of the alternative program has begun and it is very important that we let the board know how we value educational choice. Among the alternative program's greatest strengths are our sense of community and the value we place on participation. We need to be able to depend on these now more than ever. This site is designed to provide you with information on the review and how you can get involved to save our program.
The school board's description of the process can be found at http://www.ocdsb.ca/au_hi_program-reviews_EAPR.asp
How can you help?
- Fill out the survey by October 22nd. Information on the survey can be found in our second and third newsletters.
- Email your feelings to the board. The email address is elementary_alternative_review@ocdsb.ca. These will be seen by all trustees and are as important or more important than the surveys. Ideas can be found here. Other email addresses are also available.
- Record a video message. Your kids can too.
- Join one of our teams. Email annettehegel @ yahoo.ca
- Join our Facebook page: "Alternative Schools in Ottawa: More Choices"
- Join our mailing list "prac@asac-ottawa.org"
- To join: send an email message to "prac-subscribe@asac-ottawa.org".
- To leave the list: send an email message to "prac-unsubscribe@asac-ottawa.org".
- To send a message to the list: simply send it to "prac@asac-ottawa.org".
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Although the school board has said that the survey should be filled out by parents for each child (so, if you have two children, you should fill out the survey twice), the survey uses a "cookie" that will prevent you from filling out the survey a second (or third, etc) time on the same computer/account.
To remove the cookie, so that you can fill out the appropriate number of surveys:
In any case, select the entries for surveymonkey.com from the list of individual cookies and delete them. You will then by able to fill out the survey a second time.