Ms. Sparkles
An aquaintance of mine purchased a home in HP about 5 years ago…and then let it go into forclosure about 2 years later because she didn’t like the diversity and couldn’t sell for what she owed (BTW – I don’t condone her actions, just sharing what I know).
A friend of mine’s daughter started Kindergarten as WS Elementery (right next to HP) 2 years ago and during the parent-teacher conference in November (2010) the TEACHER told her to find another school for her daughter because she wasn’t going to learn anything at WS Elem. because most of the school population was so far behind the curve that bringing them up to speed was the overwhelming focus and everything else just fell away. My friend did move her daughter to the Highline school district in early 2011 and she is doing well.
I spent the spring of 2010 working with the Youth Tutoring Program at the community center at HP – I stopped because my work schedule changed….but I wasn’t sad about it. Of course there were some great kids who really wanted help with their homework, but I found there were also a lot of kids who seemed to be there only for the free snacks and because their parents used the program as a defacto babysitter.
That’s my 2 bits.