Advocate for BT K-8!
Broadview-Thomson K-8 serves one of the most diverse attendance areas in the district. We are a Title I school, with more than 60% of our families qualifying as low-income. Over 16 languages are spoken, many of our families are newly immigrated to this country, and a significant number of our children and families are living in crisis.
And yet—this school is extraordinary. It is a place of belonging, care, and deep connection. Even while operating at the very edge of our capacity, the Broadview-Thomson community has continued to build, create, and care for one another in meaningful ways.
Advocating for Broadview-Thomson K-8 is advocating for our whole neighborhood. It is a hub for community support, and it is not currently getting the support it needs to thrive.
Attend a community engagement session
Show up and show your support at one of these upcoming sessions:
Thursday April 2
Virtual (online)
6:00–7:30 p.m.
Registration is required to attend the virtual meeting. Click here to RSVP and receive a unique Zoom link.
Can't attend? Email Superintendent Shuldinger directly:
Our Message to Superintendent Shuldinger
Community matters.
Broadview-Thomson K-8 cannot simply be replicated somewhere else. Closing our school and moving students to James Baldwin or Viewlands would break the ecosystem of support for our most vulnerable students. Place matters. Community matters. The relationships, trust, and support networks built here would suffer—or even disintegrate—if displaced.
We are not asking to be saved. We are asking to be supported.
Broadview-Thomson K-8 deserves to continue to exist where it is—and to be given the resources necessary to succeed. Investing here is not just an investment in one school; it is an investment in stability, equity, and a model of community-centered education that works.
Our current model is not sustainable.
Our needs are real and increasingly urgent. As a school serving high levels of need
across a PreK–8 population, our staffing and supports have not kept pace with reality. Staff are carrying an extraordinary load and regularly absorbing responsibilities far beyond their roles just to keep the school functioning. Burnout is real and growing.
● Our SPED department is overwhelmed.
● Our Multilingual Learner supports are insufficient for the population we serve.
● Many of our instructional assistant positions go consistently unfilled.
● We need an additional assistant principal to meet the complexity of a PreK–8 building with significant student needs.
● We need another full time counselor.
● And, we need a dedicated safety and security role so administrators and educators can focus on teaching, learning, and student care rather than constant crisis management.
More Ways to Advocate
Share your concerns with the school board via email: schoolboard@seattleschools.org and/or through Talking Points
Reach out to our school board director (District 1) Liza Rankin: liza.rankin@seattleschools.org
Attend a school board meeting: https://www.seattleschools.org/about/school-board/meetings/
Tell our representatives to fully fund our schools
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