We understand that there is still uncertainty regarding how parts of the QUEST Regional program are going to work, particularly in regards to some fundamentals like start times and transportation. The District website does not currently list QUEST Regional or PAGE transportation schedules, but ABC has received copies and posted them here. These are the same schedules that were sent home in a mailing from the District the week of 8/17. The District website is currently (as of 8/19) silent on issues of start times and transportation that are unique to QUEST and PAGE students (though a mailing from the District regarding transportation for QUEST Regional and PAGE students is on the way). Some parents have interpreted that silence to mean that there has been a change from the plans announced in the Spring. This is not the case. QUEST Regional sites 3rd/4th and 5th/6th grade classes will begin from 15 (early start elementary schools) to 25 (late start elementary schools) minutes before the posted start time of the host school. Regularly scheduled District buses may not be sufficient to get your child to their classroom on time.
Some additional uncertainty may be resolved when classroom assignments are mailed on August 26th. We expect that many of you may still have questions after that point, and want to provide a central location for parents to exchange information. We invite you to use our ABC Forum to post your questions and get responses from other parents in similar situations. We’re all in this together, and we want to be able to provide accurate information to as many people as we can as quickly and easily as we can. If you have a question, you’re probably not the only one with that question. Our forum will provide a way for our parents to exchange information with each other, so we can learn from each other, and create a history that we can learn from as we move forward.
We do require that you register for the forum before you can begin to post and read all our messages. Registration will help us to prevent SPAM and abuse, and provide a safe place for our members to share their experiences and their knowledge. Each registration is reviewed and approved manually, so there may be some delay before you’re able to login to the forum to post.
August 25th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
We have had a number of new users register to the forum in the last few days, and a few are starting to post. We encourage everyone to join in. The more participants we have, the better a resource the forum will be.