Extended calendar next school year at two schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Asking because I don't know: What kind of extra help is offered to these families now? I thought there was already free summer school and meals?

There is also saturday school.

Not free. Can be reduced costs if you meet the income requirement. Only runs during the school year. Is not a full day. Transportation isn’t provided. If you are a low income single parent who works Saturdays (as I once was), it will not work for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jumping over from the VA Schools board. This is probably going to end poorly for the chosen schools. APS did a similar pilot program starting about 20 years ago with one high poverty school. They have never done a longitudinal study AFAIK, but over the time period, test scores have actually declined, and it has made hiring teachers more difficult, and it drove out the middle class families who lived nearby and has failed to recapture the majority of the new MC families despite the neighborhood changing over from lower MC owners and renters to majority UMC owners (older small homes selling above $700,000 and new builds 1.2-1.3 million) from option schools to avoid the one school with a different calendars and very low test scores. APS is considering scrapping the calendar. MoCo would be wise to look at Barcroft before they go full steam ahead.

Well, there's only one way to find out, and that's to do a pilot test. Which is what they're doing. They will do it, evaluate the results, and then decide. All is well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jumping over from the VA Schools board. This is probably going to end poorly for the chosen schools. APS did a similar pilot program starting about 20 years ago with one high poverty school. They have never done a longitudinal study AFAIK, but over the time period, test scores have actually declined, and it has made hiring teachers more difficult, and it drove out the middle class families who lived nearby and has failed to recapture the majority of the new MC families despite the neighborhood changing over from lower MC owners and renters to majority UMC owners (older small homes selling above $700,000 and new builds 1.2-1.3 million) from option schools to avoid the one school with a different calendars and very low test scores. APS is considering scrapping the calendar. MoCo would be wise to look at Barcroft before they go full steam ahead.

Well, there's only one way to find out, and that's to do a pilot test. Which is what they're doing. They will do it, evaluate the results, and then decide. All is well.

Except families and kids who are trapped while they run this "test." APS never came back to reevaluate and let this "pilot" try, and fail, for almost two decades. I don't expect much better from MoCo. Desegregation is what has proven effective at closing gaps. Making poor schools even less desirable to MC and UMC families will further segregation. But, I guess you'll have to see for yourselves.

[jsteele]

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