Presence

Someone has started a blog entitled Concerned Parents of TA (Baltimore). From the first post on the blog:

It is the goal of this blog to provide a forum for parents to provide candid feedback to the school, but also to explore, in a constructive manner, ideas that can be implemented to make TA the school that we all know, hope, and expect it to be.

It will be interesting to see if this works. I'm sure there will be lots of anonymous venting, as well as impassioned defenses of the school. I would encourage everyone to either comment under their real names or to adopt a consistent pseudonym, so that there is a sense of conversation, rather than a free-for-all. Also, the administration of the school should be following this blog very carefully, as well as participate in the conversation non-anonymously, which will show that you're listening and help to keep the conversation civil. The feedback you'll get from parents commenting on the blog will be very valuable. Also, it's just about a given that this blog will end up on the first page of Google results for searches for TA, etc., which means people looking for and at the school for the first time will find this blog. If there's silence from the administration, it will look bad from the outside.

The blog was brought to my attention by a commenter on my previous post. If I had to guess, I'd bet that the person who left the comment is the one who started the blog.