It's very unfortunate to hear about all of these strong personal feelings Board members have, many involving personal issues they have with one another. Knowing this, it seems like it would have been prudent to have a pre-retteat facilitated by trained mediators from the Dispute Resolution Center where the actually do try and seek resolutions. This could have set the foundation for an effective retreat where communication was improved and they could have restored some public confidence. It's not too late for DRC to be involved and I would highly recommend this before the school year starts. The levels of dysfunction on full display does not bode well for accomplishing goals for the next school year. That said, these tough conversations were a good start and I applaud them for at least having them in a public forum. The more info that comes out from this meeting it does seem very circumspect to have held this retreat far away from Olympia so it was difficult for district families to attend. Clearly this was by design.
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