House Bill 1289, which the committee passed on Thursday, would require the survey to be operational by Sept. 1, 2025
A bipartisan bill from Rep. Stephanie McClintock, which would require the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to create a voluntary, confidential online survey for parents or guardians to fill out when transferring or withdrawing a student from a public school or school district, has received unanimous approval from the House Education committee.
“We are losing too many kids from public schools because we are not meeting our students’ and parents’ needs,” said McClintock, R-Vancouver. “When someone leaves a position in the private sector, it’s common practice for companies to seek feedback to learn how they could improve. This would be an effective way to better understand why families are leaving.”
House Bill 1289, which the committee passed on Thursday, would require the survey to be operational by Sept. 1, 2025. It would encourage public schools to notify parents or guardians of the survey and provide a link to it upon receiving a request from a parent or guardian to transfer or withdraw a student.
The survey would be used to collect data about why parents and guardians transfer or withdraw students from public schools and use it to better meet students’ and their parents’ or guardians’ needs.
“If we don’t know why students are leaving, then we can’t improve,” said McClintock. “This legislation aims to help us create policies that address students’ and parents’ concerns and would be a valuable tool in improving student success in our public schools.”
The bill now waits for a vote on the House floor.
Information provided by Washington State House Republicans, houserepublicans.wa.gov
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Rep. McClintock is one of a dying breed in Wash. State as she is a Republican. This State has become overwhelmingly leftist-democratic in its governing practices. It is wondered why Republican lawmakers even bother showing up for work since they know they’ll have little-to-no influence on legislative outcomes.
However, that being said, her proposal to spend my tax money to establish yet another online dashboard/app/whatever to gather voluntary, confidential data about why kids are being pulled from schools is absurd.
Hey Stephanie, I’ll save you a boat load of money and I’ll tell you why: students are leaving the public school system due to parents’ finally awakening and taking action after seeing state-wide test scores going downhill for multiple years despite more and more money being thrown at public schools. Coupled with the current legislative efforts to do away with parental rights that were established via initiative last year… these are the two big reasons!
And, no, I’m not a rocket scientist; I’m just a regular normal person able to think critically. I’ve seen that to continue to do the same thing over and over again, and to expect a different outcome, is truly insane. For Washington State to keep asking tax-payers (i.e. property owners) to pay more and more money simply isn’t working. We need tax-relief, not more taxes!
Schools need to cut out any DEI-influenced policies, along with the rewriting of history (CRT?), and return to their primary function of teaching math, reading/writing, science, and history… and holding students accountable by adherence to a pass/fail grading system. Who knows, maybe when students (and parents) know that repeating a grade is a real possibility, maybe there will be a little less screen-time and bit more study-time at home?
So, Stephanie, how about doing something actually useful like not working to remove parents’ rights and to return education to its foundational roots? We really don’t need another survey; we need concrete action. But it is agreed that your ability, as a Republican, to achieve these goals is severely limited or even blocked by the ruling-class in Olympia.
I’m pretty sure Stephanie already knows the reasons and why…. 😉
I have a strong suspicion that parents are removing students from public schools because the schools are not meeting goals stated by the state: to teach children to read; to teach children to compute; to teach children to think critically. The goals also specifically include parent involvement, which is currently not only discouraged, but also often blocked both by school administrators, and state legislators. An expensive study isn’t really necessary to figure that out, but if it will provide rock solid evidence-maybe that will bring change-but I doubt it.
It would appear from all current evidence that every school district in Washington State is already in violation of this part of the State Constitution:
“Article IX, section 4: