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New Stillwater parent urges clearer Adventure Club, community education communications as waitlist persists
Summary
A new district parent told the Stillwater Area School Board that delays and errors in Adventure Club and community education registration left her family stuck at No. 10 on the waitlist for months; Superintendent Funk said hires in progress could nearly halve the waiting list.
Ellie Gray, a new Stillwater resident and parent of a first-grader at Affton Lakeland, used the board’s public-comment period to criticize the district’s communication around after-school care and community education programs.
Gray said she registered for Adventure Club immediately after registration opened in February while she was still an “out of unenrolled family” and was told her family was number 10 on the wait list; by July her status had not changed. “We were shocked to learn that Adventure Club isn't lottery based and that incoming families are essentially deprioritized,” she said. “You can't promote the district as an educational destination and then bury new families at the bottom of the list when it comes to after school…
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