MLI Board Meeting Tommorrow!!

Notice of Board Meeting
Mastery Learning Institute [Arthur Academy]
Board of Directors

Date and Time:
Thursday, February 19, 2009, 6:30 PM

Location:
The administrative headquarters of Mastery Learning Institute
13717 SE Division St., Portland, Oregon

Current Board Members:

Dr. Caleb Burns, calebb@teleport.com
Charles Arthur, arthurac@appleisp.net
Dr. Bonnie Grossen, bgrossen@verizon.net
Robert Snee, bsnee@integra.net
Russell Hanf, russell@rhlawoffice.com

Oregon Trail/Sandy Arthur Academy

Hey Everyone. I just wanted to let you all know that we are starting the application process for the Oregon Trail School District in Sandy. We will hold a parents meeting for anyone interested at the Sandy Community Center on March 4th at 7pm in the cafeiteria. There are a lot of families out there wanting what we already have so this is great news! I just wanted a little help getting the word out so if you know anyone in the Sandy, Damacus, Estacada, or Boring areas that will have a child in K-2 in the fall of 2009 that would be interested in our great school please pass on my e-mail address and I can get them more information. Thanks...Dayna Brown BrownLDS8@Yahoo.com

No School - Monday, Feb. 16th

February 16th is President's Day. There will not be school for any of the schools.

For those of you that are crafty and would like ideas for some President's Day crafts/activities/printouts, check out this site:

Kaboose.com

Reynolds Parent Meeting Minutes

Thank you and Kudos to April Curtis ... Reynolds Arthur Academy Parent Organization's Secretary.

Good job on all your work in getting information out to parents! Here is a link to the January Meeting Minutes.

Also if you have never seen the RAAPO website, follow this link!! Way to go Reynolds Parents!

(And if there are any other secretaries, who would like to pass along their info/meeting minutes, we'd be happy to post it!)

A Comment...

A reader wrote in asking to be able to see the comments on the main page. As stated earlier, the blog's current setup does not allow for this. In an effort to generate discussion, the following comment was pulled from a previous post for you to see:

I am so thankful to Mr. Arthur for what he has done for my children and other children alike. I don't know where our children would be if he hadn't started these wonderful schools.

But as most of you have said it isn't fair how he is treating his staff and teachers. If we don't have these quality teachers and staff we don't have a quality school. Mr. Arthur is and ever will be a wonderful educator. He is not a businessman. Unfortunately, when you have employees, (aka staff & teachers), you must run your school as a business.

Why is Mr. Arthur on his own board? It may not be illegal but it is unethical.

If we as parents do not stand up for our teachers who will. We must stand together with our teachers and tell him their needs and see that they get fullfilled. Yes these wonderful schools were brought to us by a wonderful man, but public schools do not belong to anyone but the public. And these are public charter schools. They belong to us!

Thank you to all of the parents, like this one, who have taken the time to leave your thoughts and opinions. If you haven't left a comment before and would like to, see the next post for instructions on how to have your voice heard.

Leaving Comments...

The post on the Portland/DD Manager has generated many comments. It would be worth your time to check them out. Click here to read the comments. In general, there are 2 ways to view comments:

1. Click on the Title of the post. This redirects you to a page dedicated to that post and all of the subsequent comments.
2. Click on Comments, that appears below the post.

If you would like to leave a comment of your own, fill out the form at the bottom the comments.

Thank you to the parent who sent an email to arthuracademycorner@gmail.com to ask to see the comments. Unfortunately, we are not seeing a way to have all the comments show on the main page. If you, or any reader, have suggestions, please let us know.