In case you missed the announcement, and I did until the PTO’s Westword saved me, the Weston School Committee meeting that had been scheduled for this afternoon has been rescheduled to Tuesday, January 31, at 4 pm. It will be held via Zoom and include a review of the proposed FY24 budget for the Middle School, High School, and the
Read moreDisclaimer: this is an opinion piece. Ignore at will but the agenda is true and right, and available here at the Weston town site. The Weston Schools site is not updated and I worry about losing Jake. +++ The Weston School Committee meets today, January 17, at the unusual time of 4 pm and in what appears to be the
Read moreSchool Committee meets tonight, Monday January 9 at 6:30 pm. Please note the time as didn’t we used to meet at 7 pm? I dunno. More time to stream New Amsterdam after committee is done. If the Owl had to call a theme night for School Committee, tonight’s psych-up would put you in your favorite Wildcat sports jersey. From possible
Read moreThe School Committee holds an office hour via Zoom every few weeks. The next office hour occurs Wednesday., January 4 at 9 a.m., and Jeff Lucas will be the committee member attending. Join to express views or ask questions about topics that fall under the School Committee’s purview. Recent committee business, for example, has focused on the external review of
Read moreUpdate 12/15/2022 10 am: The Owl received the following correction from Ed McLoughlin, President of the WEA, published with his permission: “Thank you for your reporting on our negotiations with Weston’s School Committee. I’d like to clarify one thing. The WEA is not in agreement that we are at an impasse. The School Committee will be filing unilaterally with the
Read moreThe following post is based subjetively on information readily available from School Committee public meetings, as well as communications distributed by the Weston Educational Association teacher’s union on the Weston Community facebook page. The Owl has zero intention of getting into the numbers or the hearsay, and does not use anonymous sources. Given where “we” as the Town of Weston
Read moreThe next meeting of the Weston School Committee will be Tuesday, November 29, at 7 pm at the Weston Middle School’s Amy Potter Center. There are at least two topics that are tempting to the Owl, who will be on soccer mom duty, but trying to listen in from marginal parking lot wifi. The social studies program review is always
Read moreWeston’s annual Financial Summit will be held this Monday, October 31 starting at 8:30 am. This is a meeting of the minds between the Finance Committee, the Select Board and the School Committee. I could also term it as learning what is going to be the year’s bugaboo. No, not pickleball–watch for commentary on the union contract and rising energy
Read moreThe following communication was sent to Weston High School families this afternoon. If you are not a Weston high school family, you may not care. Or as the Owlets say (and you all know this by now, right?), no one cares. Actually, I do care. And I have plenty of editorial comment to make but will refrain until a later
Read moreThere is a small part of me that feels happy whenever I write “Whassup” as the title of a post. It is that chaotic good side of me that knows that the Grand Owl, former English teacher, gets a little shiver from it, as well as a few other English teachers who read this blog. I would apologize but this
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