The overwhelming positive response from festival attendees continued into our second day at Day on the Glen. We were so surprised by the number of parents that said they came to the festival just to hear more about the new high school. By the time Dublin Learning Corporation packed up our booth, we had collected a total of 30 completed “Intent to Enroll” forms and signed up 159 interested parents and residents for our mailing list. The delight and excitement expressed by everyone about Tassajara Prep was much more than we could have ever predicted. The whole town seems to be buzzing over what we are doing.
Dublin Learning Corporation noticed a significant difference between the parents who stopped by our booth on Saturday and those who stopped by on Sunday. While both groups of parents opened with the standard questions regarding the opening date of our new public high school and its location, parents who visited us on Sunday expressed more concern about their kids’ chances for getting into Tassajara Prep than Saturday’s parents. Parents have clearly noticed the resounding enthusiasm that the announcement of Tassajara Prep has been generating, and now some are becoming worried that the school may not have sufficient capacity for all of the students who will want to enroll.
Tassajara Prep will be a public high school fully committed to serving the racially and economically diverse student population throughout Dublin. Our goal is to offer every student the advantages of a comprehensive high school experience within a small neighborhood school environment. Given the tremendous buzz they have heard and the dense forest of pins on our map of residents who came by our booth to learn about Tassajara Prep, we at Dublin Learning Corporation completely understand the concerns of Sunday’s parents and will do our best to accommodate every student who wishes to attend Tassajara Prep. Over the next few weeks, Dublin Learning Corporation will be working very hard in preparation for our three public town hall meetings where we will solicit community input and feedback as we draft Tassajara Prep’s charter petition. Below are the dates and locations of these town hall meetings:
These town hall meetings will be the perfect opportunity for parents and community members to play key roles in planning the high school that everyone in Dublin would like Tassajara Prep to be. We look forward to seeing you there.
In addition to the many volunteers who helped make our appearance at this year’s Day on the Glen a success, Dublin Learning Corporation would like to thank Blush Organic Frozen Yogurt and Extreme Pizza Dublin for their generous gift card donations to our contest. We challenged everyone to guess the total number of traffic signals encountered on a ROUND-TRIP drive from Lorenzo Court in east Dublin to the Dublin High School parking lot on Brighton Drive via the route marked in RED on the map. This is the most direct route suggested by MapQuest. We received a total of 96 entries, and we will be announcing the winning entries on Tuesday, September 21 on the Tassajara Prep website and the Around Dublin Blog.
Finally, we at Dublin Learning Corporation would like to thank everyone who stopped by our booth and took the time to learn more about Dublin’s new public high school. Tassajara Prep’s debut could not have been the smashing success that it was without the outpouring of support from the community. We are especially grateful for the many passionate parents who pledged to volunteer and do whatever it takes to help bring school choice to everyone in Dublin, CA. The dawn of a brand new era for Dublin’s public schools has arrived.
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