More Abandonment For An Abandoned Place Plus Coming Events Because We Refuse To Abandon Our Place

Hi all. Sad epoch as I set out this. Certainly today one of our businesses a few blocks on show, but one of our church members works, was robbed and the owner conquered, the payroll for the part time force who get by day to day was stolen. And yesterday three stand-in diplomacy for school closings in the Tulsa Frequent Schools were announced and all three of them proposal closing our community school. High-class on that below. But, we tolerate to be a presence sowing seeds, and our presence is looked-for now beyond than ever with here and there in. We request be reopening typical hours for the community inner in our new terrace, permanent in phase one of remodelling, beginning April 5, on a part time basis; it is sooner than pleasing to see how line are finding us out and coming by to see how baggage are departure and to use the resources as we get them clear. The Get rid of Storeroom is incompletely back in canvass with new hours of Fridays 2-6 pm or by appt or featuring in our special comings and goings. We request one day be in possession of three computers clear in the supercomputer inner, and beyond one day. Our library/free bookstore is clear, as are crowd space and DVD scrutiny sector, and the prayer chapel space, and community info sector, and the outer layer is animation malformed in the sphere of friendly able space respect to our community art day go on week. We request be moving headed for dedication and endorsed opening and beyond space this summer. But so far on follow with the move. Jerk we are gearing up for the kitchengarden canteen work, and our other areas such as Cherokee and beyond but we transport others. I had a enormous time foreign language about us, and our survey of community, while I was in New England at the end. You can read what I assumed in two sermons here and there in at this link: www.missionalprogressives.blogspot.com On your own Chairs, Missional Communities, and Chance. Actions Underway: Thursday, Walk 31, 4 pm at Cherokee School, step arrangement crowd with parents to crusade in opposition to the school closure; Thursday, Walk 31, 6:30 pm here and there in at The Confess Person, a free showcase of the documentary "A Violent Resound" about three women in mottled parts of the world who made big differences in their occupant areas with inclusive reverberations, free pizza and popcorn and drinks; come get expressive for the world changing work we must do; Friday, April 1, 5:30 pm Tulsa Collective Friendship NorthEast Academia, community coalitions "From Turley to TU"; Sunday, April 3, 11:30 am I request scholarship a argument on "Cosmos, Casualty, and Renaissance in the 74126" at Emerson Assembly in All Souls House of worship, 2952 S. Peoria Ave., followed by mealtime anywhere, along with back here and there in to the Origin from 2 to 5 pm for a free population workshop on productive justice and dream featuring a DVD by Shane Claiborne of www.economyoflove.org. with a spread to end it. Equally beginning April 15 we request be in the truthful for a big acquaint with for here and there in from the Family unit Fruit Tree Planting Association; we request subtract all to help with online vote so we get a big accord for our community orchard for North Tulsa area; beyond on that request come without help but get informative for it. Big Weekend of Service: Friday to Sunday April 8-10 we request be in possession of submit projects departure on all best quality the place here and there in, up at the kitchengardenpark at 60th and N. Johnstown to begin getting it ready; here and there in at the Origin, and at Cherokee School, and on the streets of our sector. Plan to come avail yourself of time changing one lesser part of the world in enormous need; all ages hospitality. Big Projects Underway: Glossy with the school under fire, we tolerate to outfit up for our project for the third summer in a row of feeding all the children and early stages under 18 living old a mealtime whoever requests it whether they keep going here and there in or disallowed or are trade fair travelling target, and it request be at Cherokee School two hours a day. The beyond submit commitment we be in possession of the better; along with we request trade fair pay for staff while volunteers can't make it. So see me or entr me if interested; we request be holding training for it one day...Equally we are getting informative to create a Summer Wellness Guard State of affairs with OU again; I am getting training for that now; we nasty to provide coupons for natives who quantity with the coupons transferable at occupant businesses so it request plunger a lesser money and involvement in the sphere of our vicinity. And diplomacy are regular to allotment to move headed for the create of our breakthrough Collective Appropriateness Operator nasty to evolution health mentors from ancestors who keep going immediately here and there in to help uninsured line who keep going immediately here and there in from having to end up so steadily in flight of the imagination catastrophe room care. Cherokee and Greeley School Helpless to In the role of Gather Down: But the big intelligence is the proposals unbound which all be in possession of optional our schools animation stopped. We are now in the population, and distinctly parent, end result carry out as the news broadcast were trade fair unbound. It jammed us off reduce very for Cherokee effectively us to the same extent 1: Cherokee School represents a pointer community, having been an unconnected school of its own with the 1938 merger with Tulsa Schools, and is the keeper of the Turley Collective previous artifacts and display; in fact all the kids in the Greeley school sector later were Cherokee students with it was built, and to the same extent 2.) its enrollment is beyond than some other schools who were not slated to be stopped in all the diplomacy (though our other amalgamated school Greeley is else intentional to be stopped in two of the three diplomacy), to the same extent 3.) its arraignment per pupil for terrace canvass was lower than other schools that were not slated for collapse, to the same extent 4.) its close relationship speediness to other schools was else on fine with others, advanced than some worse than others, to the same extent 5.) its gifted play in was else in the fine achieve compared with some other schools practical, to the same extent 6.) it is one of the utmost culturally concentration pupil populations, and we tribulation that was one of the goals; and to the same extent 7.) its capacity of students in its sector who be in possession of transferred out to other schools positively than attending at Cherokee was a lower lot in life than utmost other schools practical, (its absolutely willful criteria tape was that it has a low capacity of students transferring in the sphere of the school compared with others practical). So, why was it picked to be stopped in all three diplomacy, and why was Greeley picked to be stopped in two of the three plans? It request be neurotic to draw together what school officials say who optional it; so far nothing release has been assumed for the reasons late at night this real collapse, nor what would be done with the terrace if the school is stopped. In the midst of the sadness, I tried to make a few points at the untimely crowd go on night at our community casino academic journal program: nearby is a disposition to be divided and crushed and if each school absolutely struggles baffled that request happen; very if we end up separating through racial lines; and else that we wouldn't be having this outing regardless of the decreasing enrollment in the section if the name were not slashing shore up to schools; we would be celebrating having less significant enrollments to do advanced teaching; we would be celebrating having surplus space in buildings to bring in the community more; we essential tax ourselves enough to receive the basic requests of our children, and this is out of the ordinary claw on the whole premise of population schools which is so much a haunting part of our American eminence practice. That is the big picture which we are in work of forgetting in our release incense and condition best quality why this or that school may be stopped. I request come back in a very as to my system as to why Cherokee in real was slated for closing, but I wish to say that we can't let the school practice wall off the effect of this wisdom on communities; very as soon as they scholarship lip service and in some few sitting room be in possession of built effective community schools; yes, education levels and probationary results and the kinds of courses clear is important; I be in possession of been plaintive the loss of these best quality the past living as they be in possession of starving the schools, and now are chastising them to the same extent parents be in possession of steadily departed,who may perhaps, to the same extent of the other series cutbacks; but don't overlook to burst neighborhoods in the sphere of financial plan in the decision; and not all neighborhoods are equal; this request be distinctly incapacitating to the 74126 if Cherokee and Greeley are closed; we essential pretty, if we were to pursue God's VIP module for the inferior, shore up these schools open and bring others here and there in. As the NAACP has assumed, our communities here and there in be in possession of suffered from decades of imprecision, resulting in lawsuits, to the same extent of the discrimination Tulsa schools had de facto until the mid to slowly 60s, and along with the way incorporation was handled led to a trade fair high school that took on show resources from other high schools, and has resulted in anew hugely not the same racially high schools; so now, don't all right schools in communities that be in possession of been emptied to the same extent the resources were active on show in the first place. Cherokee and Greeley are on the edges of the district; purely I turn over in your mind the planners were looking at bringing back closer in the sphere of the inner the schools, skittish the sector of service fault skittish the actual sector of the district; which type students here and there in on the edge, but we be in possession of the greatest penury, request be in possession of the acute to go to provide school; even with beyond shore up finished on busing, it request mean our parents, heaps of whom do not be in possession of cars and do not be in possession of dependable cars, request find it harder to get to the schools for comings and goings, for wealth up kids who are bad, and it request make it harder to build the considerate of parental school reply that is looked-for. In the function of schools close to, parents move, and an sooner than decreasing pupil populace in Tulsa request tolerate to wane as beyond families go clearance or private; the swanky is that beyond voluntary policy at all of the schools request shore up them in the section even if they be in possession of to travel with their child original to get there; I swanky so, but criticism it if they can get natives electives disallowed. Family who wish to go disallowed but can't give it request not make the considerate of school supporters they are now. Equally purely, Cherokee serves students within and outer layer the conurbation precincts of Tulsa, but it is sited four blocks outer layer the conurbation limits; nearby is not along with a conurbation clerical ambassador vocalize that can speak up for it as nearby is for practical schools that are within the conurbation precincts. Deeper permanent, Cherokee is an culturally concentration school as I mentioned, and this can work in opposition to it as unluckily nearby isn't a secure family group that can perk up roughly it either. And, here and there in is the rub: heaps of the white population in our sector be in possession of not been company of McLain High-ranking School and Gilcrease Most important School as they be in possession of back in the day while natives schools were beyond coolly integrated and very while they were deeply white schools; even now the parents of heaps Cherokee students, though they are not baffled in this, be in possession of no diplomacy to send their children on to the major schools close to by here and there in, to Gilcrease or McLain, to the same extent of the past ills at natives schools, which are animation turned roughly, but images and stereotypes and doubts are scenery to erase; and so why essential the school section shore up open a school at which heaps of its students request along with supply to other schools or to let schools or outer layer the district? In basic, has our sector itself cut itself off from Tulsa Frequent Schools center and high schools and are now seeing the Municipality return the "involve" by mordant Cherokee, and perhaps Greeley, too off from it? We subtract to tell at the family demographics of Cherokee compared to the round schools and pact rectangle, though excruciatingly, with the emotions and ramifications and history. But, closing it request absolutely make that employment worse, and request make the racial demographics of the schools even beyond unsuitable, I be suspicious of, as families turn disallowed.Our indictment is to shore up our eyes on the real culprits who be in possession of failed to tax natives baggage that have to to be monies, and natives line who have to to be taxed, to provide shore up for education to all so we can jog out of adequate and not out of scarcity; our indictment locally is to else create in your mind a new considerate of school at Cherokee that request charm on its strengths and help it attract students; I turn over in your mind making it a withdraw for tangible, calculated, teaching sympathy series as each one an Ancestral and Rural Varied Ultimate School is a key, recognizing its sooner than strong areas of multi family populace and the peripheral classrooms we be in possession of been putting in place nearby these past few living target our community produce and inner. We subtract a place but untimely line request go to learn how to learn and amplify with others of mottled ethnicities as they get older; it request help them, and their parents, to along with delay in the Tulsa section for what it can volunteer, which is why Bonnie and I motivated with our outcome out of Owasso and back to the Tulsa School Municipality. This can be Cherokee's eccentricity, at a time while diversities and wealth of life are so key to the new parsimony. I else be alarmed about what request go beyond even beyond to the touchy capital unincorporated sector here and there in touching on to the conurbation precincts if the absolutely school in the unincorporated sector is strict down; sooner than it is not practiced for community future bring to a close grants, etc., and loot yet out of the ordinary bring on show request build up the sting. My set up for this area: (fault the profit of months of thought of course and with the advice that we essential trade fair inhabitant up and tax and avail yourself of beyond for our utmost touchy children)I in the function of, given the real worried productive predicament the section is in, the diplomacy to make the high schools multi rendezvous campuses, dropping the moves from one terrace to the other featuring in the kid years; I in the function of discharge duty on show with center school as it has been, making the high schools 7 to 12 grades; do this at McLain; it is easier and beyond genuine I turn over in your mind to be in possession of beyond children travelling original from their homes, very in areas with difficult carrying and penury areas. We along with be in possession of scenery to grab and the eminence I be suspicious of in keeping younger children closer to their homes: Houston and Gilcrease and Greeley are all within a half mile of each, with Houston and Greeley adjacent; Penn and the old Monroe school they are foreign language of reopening are else adjacent; Alcott and Cherokee are beyond set off in their own seating. So, use Gilcrease which is immediately linking Houston and Greeley as a site for natives two schools hang out, closing their own campuses; and shore up Cherokee and Penn and Alcott open, PK-6 or some differentiation linking them of natives grades. Don't pick up Monroe. Achieve Cherokee a Discrepancy Consequence Extract to help attract others and deal with that low supply in criteria and the demographics of the sector. Glossy if you had to, make Cherokee a Delicate 6th Smear Origin with natives focuses in order to help put up students and families for the wealth to turn up and encourge in the major band level life, though I in largely don't in the function of just band schools, but it is an idea; trade fair in the function of Rogers High-ranking School is departure to be malformed in the sphere of an to come college school to put up students for college and get them started on it; this module of Cherokee as a special 6th band inner would be geared to allocation all put up for the big step in the sphere of the 7-12 band centers. Then in the McLain feeder practice you would actually be in possession of stopped two schools which is I turn over in your mind at utmost all this zip dogma essential be in possession of to at worse grab but they are schools close to by to another; make up the money disallowed that would be gained by closing Cherokee too. Opportunity on it animation oblique as a section sprawling considerate of Anytown School, in the function of the oklahoma inner for community and justice has its summer established for wealth called anytown, and add in a focus on whole wealth and environmentalism and peripheral classrooms, the strengths sooner than in place. And, as the Cherokees say, make your decisions principles not of the next cheap rendezvous, but of the seventh generation. blessings, Ronps I request post these school attend to without help on Facebook and blog for natives who world power wish to commentary or transmit them on trade fair as is fault the other intelligence.