Sustainability Study Presentation PSSC - Stanley High Sustainability Study Presentation

Position of the PSSC The Stanley High School PSSC is in favor of maintaining 2 schools within one complex.

REASONS: Negative impact on the Health & Safety of students Negative impact on Quality Education and Services to students Negative impact on staff Insufficient information on actual outcome of consolidating the two schools

Health & Safety Elementary and Secondary

Feel safe attending this school - Elementary Report on Student Outcomes and School Climate, Nov 2013

Bullying - Elementary “Tell Them From Me" about Bullying and School Safety Elementary (2013-14)

Feel safe attending this school – Secondary Report on Student Outcomes and School Climate, Nov 2013

Bullying – Secondary Report on Student Outcomes and School Climate, Nov 2013

What we have now is working! Students of both Stanley Elementary and Stanley High feel secure. Why would we make a change that could jeopardize this?

Quality Education & Services Focus on Secondary School

Savings No substantial or substantive savings Less than 1% No indication savings would be reinvested in Quality Education or Services Trying to achieve these savings will have other negative impacts Total Costs Elementary 2013/14 $ 817,014 Total Costs High School 2013/14 $ 1,365,444 Combined Costs $ 2,182,458 Annual Savings (after year 3) $ 18,705 As a percentage of combined costs 0.85%

Delivery of Education & Services Scheduling Currently schedule one set of teachers around middle school programming and high school programming. Combining the schools would mean scheduling one set of teachers around three distinct programming needs: elementary, middle and high. Already challenging, more factors to consider will not improve delivery.

School Improvement Plans Role of the PSSC is to review the school improvement plan. Elementary and High School plans are different – different focus, different priorities. Combining the schools is going to either water down these plans or make them so large and complex as to be unmanageable.

Logistics Lunch hours, shared spaces, bussing, supervision of students, bell schedules, prep time, field trips, parent-teacher meetings, professional development conferences, detention halls, tutoring, school activities, sports activities, community use of the schools, etc. etc. etc. All sorted between two schools and two administrations. Time and resources to reconfigure is wasted.

Subject matter and age As a PSSC we have seen the challenges of finding teachers that can teach across subjects as is required in a small school. Combing schools will further require teachers that can teach across age groups/maturity levels. The skills called upon to manage a group of 6 year olds and a group of 16 year olds vary greatly.

Negative Impact on Staff AND Students

Principal Positions 2 1 Elementary 1 for 104 students High School 1 for 148 students Combined 1 for 252 students Increase in responsibility for 70 % more students based on high school numbers Responsibility for more than twice as many students based on elementary numbers 2`1 ` `11 Q QNBBBB

Principal Report School Concerns – drug use

Principal Report Policy Update – use of electronics (Cyber bullying)

Different Worlds Issues that the Principals need to deal with between Elementary and High School are vastly different. Not only double the students the principals are responsible for. Also doubles the issues that they are responsible for. Added stressors for the sole Principal of a combined school.

Insufficient Information Many unanswered questions about the reality of what a combines school will be.

Questions Remain about… Office Location and related renovation costs Won’t take much to eat up 18,000 in savings FTE positions & top-ups Difficult to assess the impact