Parents: We need your help!

Every day next we will be collecting signatures from parents, staff, students, and community members to keep our plant manager, Dorothy Allison, here are Germain during school hours. Let’s make our voices heard. If you would like to help the efforts of collecting signatures please print out the attached petition sheet and collect names. Or you can sign up to help in the morning before school starts or after school to gather signatures.
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More details:

URGENT – URGENT – URGENT

The LAUSD has proposed removing plant managers from many school campuses. Those who remain with the District will be given rotational night shifts, and their time will be spread thin across several schools. This is being proposed to take effect over the summer break when no one, except those directly effected, are around to object. Not all schools, however, need be affected. Decisions are being made on a school-by-school basis, according to the perceived needs of a particular campus. Germain St. Elementary is three-times the size of many other schools in our district.

Dorothy Allison, our plant manager, is vitally important, not only, to the safety, health and well-being of our kids, but also to the continuity of the classroom environment. Dorothy has been with Germain St. Elementary longer than nearly any other staff member. She also sits as an elected member on the Neighborhood Council, representing our school’s needs to the community. Thanks to her efforts, our school has been awarded counsel grants when we needed them.

Though we take it for granted that the classrooms are clean, fixtures are operational, and the supplies and equipment that each classroom needs are there when they need it, they are because Dorothy makes sure they are. She prides herself on keeping the safest and healthiest school in our region. Not only is she proud, but she is openly competitive with other schools in performing her service to our children. And, she engages with them as an integral part of their day — leading “Dorothy’s Helpers”, in-part, an on-campus recycling program, teaching respect for fellow students, their environment, and nominating awards to recognize upstanding students at each Monday morning assembly. An assembly which, by the way, is also facilitated in large part by Dorothy’s efforts in maintaining and configuring our school’s sound system — as are all of our assemblies.

On her own “off-time”, Dorothy has attended every after-school and weekend event when the school needed her. She arrives early and closes up late. She not only lobbies the Neighborhood Council and the District on behalf of our school’s interests, but she frequently lobbies the PTA to recognize the extracurricular efforts of students she observes on campus. Simply put, Dorothy gives our children one of the many advantages that they have at Germain St. Elementary over other neighborhood schools.

➤ She helps keep our kids safe by removing dangers from their environment. ➤ She helps keep them healthy by insisting on a sanitary campus. ➤ She helps them learn by facilitating the classroom.

Help us keep Dorothy Allison here at Germain St. Elementary. Please write to the LAUSD superintendent Raymond Cortines, Local District 1 Superintendent Jean Brown, and Board Member Representing our district Tamar Galatzan. Address below.

The petition will be to the address below. You are welcome to write your own letter to the LAUSD officials.
 
LAUSD Superintendent: RAMON C. CORTINES
Mailing Address P.O. Box 3307 Los Angeles, CA 90051 Tel: 213-241-7000 Fax: 213-241-8442 superintendent@lausd.net

Office of Superintendent
333 S. Beaudry Ave.  Los Angeles, CA 90017
Phone: 213-241-7000

Local District 1 Superintendent:  Jean Brown
6621 Balboa Blvd.  Lake Balboa, CA 91406  
Phone:(818) 654-3600 Fax:(818) 881-6728

Board District 3 Field Office
6651 #A Balboa Blvd.  Lake Balboa, CA 91406  
Phone: 213-241-6386  Fax: 213-241-8979
Phone: 818-654-3785  Fax: 818-654-3788

Thank you for your time and support.