Shannon Hughes Hautamaki

Boy mom, library lover, thrift shopper, lifelong pedestrian. Top 1 percent of CVS savers from Michigan. Unfortunately your main #a2schoolboard live tweeter

[Shannon Hughes Hautamaki @SMHred]

Never seen a SG lawn code that made me mad enough to not redeem it — until today. Boo speed bumps?! #a2council

[Shannon Hughes Hautamaki @SMHred]

@stephmurrayyyy Same. Yesterday I asked my husband what size shorts would he buy for our youngest son this summer, if he had to guess, and his response was “What height setting do we use on the lawnmower, if you had to guess?”

[Shannon Hughes Hautamaki @SMHred]

@mjwgoblue @LenaKauffman Sorry, you seem nice and knowledgeable but we’re not allowed to have a fourth “Wilk” person in #a2schoolboard conversation. I won’t allow it.

We need to start referring to trustees by first name; it’s too confusing. 😆

[Shannon Hughes Hautamaki @SMHred]

@LenaKauffman We’re doomed. My only hope is the “preserve A2 in amber crowd” don’t notice since they haven’t had school age kids in decades.

[Shannon Hughes Hautamaki @SMHred]

@robutterback @CTNAnnArbor Even the government channel on my regular cable service just has the slate up? Has the meeting started?

[Shannon Hughes Hautamaki @SMHred]

@LenaKauffman Do you have an understanding of how WISD plays into this?

I thought WISD operates similar programs and AAPS can or maybe already does use those?

[Shannon Hughes Hautamaki @SMHred]

@MichelleWhisks A mess I tried not to get too involved in. I felt maybe a little bit bad for Blick, but given her claims it was racist to fire her because of a not insignificant admin screw up, I think she hurt herself in the very liberal public eye of Ann Arbor. Idk what the AP did.

[Shannon Hughes Hautamaki @SMHred]

Another #a2schoolboard commenter calls last meeting’s treatment of Shannon Blick a “kangaroo court.” 😬

[Shannon Hughes Hautamaki @SMHred]

@LenaKauffman The only thing I know is we can’t get free milk, only free whole lunches that include a milk due to all these regulations. Silly, but also problematic for allergies and other dietary restrictions.

[Shannon Hughes Hautamaki @SMHred]

@NYC_essentialSW @legallymom2 My experience with Tamiflu 2 years ago was my older (normally healthy) son got the flu and was sick and miserable for over a week. When my younger (asthmatic, always sick) son got the flu we got him Tamiflu and he was better in 36 hours.

[Shannon Hughes Hautamaki @SMHred]

@karenvaites @NYC_essentialSW @educator4ever36 lmao. This is how our school board treats parents, with almost utter contempt. 16 second public commentary.

When hundreds of parents wrote in public commentary to reopen schools for in-person learning back in 2021, they completely ignored it and talked about mulch purchases.

[Lena Kauffman @LenaKauffman]

Public Commentary is now underway with 172 signed up. Each speaker gets just 16 seconds. That is not enough time to speak. #a2schoolboard President Feaster could have chosen to give people 30 seconds, but he is sticking to just 45 minutes total for public commentary.

[Shannon Hughes Hautamaki @SMHred]

@LenaKauffman This is the most asinine way to do public commentary. Like just cut it off at 45 speakers and give each a minute; give priority if it’s a new voice, etc. 16 seconds is nothing. They waste more time shuffling through 100-plus speakers than actually hearing the commentary.

[Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis]

"I don’t know how many different ways you can say these results are bad, but they’re bad. I don’t think this is the canary in the coal mine. This is a flock of dead birds in the coal mine.”

[Shannon Hughes Hautamaki @SMHred]

@constantelos @LenaKauffman It boggles my mind too. Especially considering we have the bond for building updates, a source of revenue most other districts don’t, so the vast, majority of the general fund pays for people.

[Shannon Hughes Hautamaki @SMHred]

@LenaKauffman Or I guess increasing enrollment, but people get big mad about SOC, perceived poaching too.

Lower birth rates, high A2 housing costs, and loss of students (still not recovered) during COVID all really came home to roost on this debacle.

[Shannon Hughes Hautamaki @SMHred]

@LenaKauffman I’d like to know any ideas they have that don’t involve substantial staff cuts or a change in state law on how we fund schools. Without one of those 2 elements, I’m at a loss on how to get teachers raises. It sucks, but that’s the current fiscal reality.

[Shannon Hughes Hautamaki @SMHred]

@stephmurrayyyy Also I think we can blame choices society made, even recently around COVID. I think now I probably should have had a 3rd kid. The time to make that decision was 2020-21, when we all know how much support was given to children and their parents, right? 👎

[Shannon Hughes Hautamaki @SMHred]

@stephmurrayyyy So tricky. I can think of three lovely couples I know personally who are childless not by choice. Don’t want to punish the childless, but also in just raising my replacement rate 2 children I’ve definitely sacrificed a lot financially where it’s blatantly obvious they did not.

[Shannon Hughes Hautamaki @SMHred]

@sunnylohmann @karenvaites @datadrivendyon1 Autocorrect changed speech to porch. Amazing. Tech blows, like a lot.

[Shannon Hughes Hautamaki @SMHred]

@sunnylohmann @karenvaites @datadrivendyon1 Same. Also porch to text on these darn Chromebooks? Absolute garbage technology to give emerging writers. What genius in our school system thought that was appropriate?