Two Rivers board meeting highlights

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Anonymous wrote:Agree that's a huge number being challenged and they're admitting 6 are straight up non-residents. I'm sure some of the 28 are genuinely residents with tricky situations (divorce parents, kid lives part of the time with relatives, housing insecurity issues) but would be surprised if it's 22. Usually those situations get addressed in the review process and OSSE tends to be generous with at risk kids where if they can identify any valid residence in the District, it's okay (like even if it's the grandparents residence as long as they can show the child lives with the grandparents at least some of the time). If 28 students failed to pass that review it's a significant issue.

Well, no. They're not contesting 6 but it could be that the kid is no longer enrolled. Similarly, 22 residencies "insufficient" doesn't necessarily mean the kid is not in DC. It means the paperwork is insufficient to establish residency. Sloppy work? Yes. Pink flag? Yes. 22 out of state kids? Maybe, maybe not.

You are so focused on the trees, you're missing the forest. The number of kids in this bucket at my DCPS ES less than a mile from TR was... 2. And the school is challenging both. Just want to put that 28 number in perspective.

Your local school is ONE school while Two Rivers is THREE. *Just to put it in perspective* Man you people are so snide about things you know nothing about.

My local school is more than half the size of TR enrollment-wise. So let's double it to... 4. You're intentionally burying you're head in the sand. Look at last year's OSSE report. 6 would be enough to be an outlier. If it's really anything close to 28? The highest in the district last year.

28 with insufficient paperwork means they are intentionally ignoring the rules. I would bet it's in TRY near the MD border and deliberate sloppiness related to the fact they couldn't fill. Other schools have gone down this path. It usually ends with the principal being ousted.

While this is possible, I've actually seen this happen from new staff who don't know the rules or staff who are just not competent and administration doesn't catch on until it's too late to get all the paperwork in hand. Either way, losing up to 28 students is huge budget-wise even for a school network with 1,000 students. I hope the appeal is successful.

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Anonymous wrote:Agree that's a huge number being challenged and they're admitting 6 are straight up non-residents. I'm sure some of the 28 are genuinely residents with tricky situations (divorce parents, kid lives part of the time with relatives, housing insecurity issues) but would be surprised if it's 22. Usually those situations get addressed in the review process and OSSE tends to be generous with at risk kids where if they can identify any valid residence in the District, it's okay (like even if it's the grandparents residence as long as they can show the child lives with the grandparents at least some of the time). If 28 students failed to pass that review it's a significant issue.

Well, no. They're not contesting 6 but it could be that the kid is no longer enrolled. Similarly, 22 residencies "insufficient" doesn't necessarily mean the kid is not in DC. It means the paperwork is insufficient to establish residency. Sloppy work? Yes. Pink flag? Yes. 22 out of state kids? Maybe, maybe not.

You are so focused on the trees, you're missing the forest. The number of kids in this bucket at my DCPS ES less than a mile from TR was... 2. And the school is challenging both. Just want to put that 28 number in perspective.

Your local school is ONE school while Two Rivers is THREE. *Just to put it in perspective* Man you people are so snide about things you know nothing about.

My local school is more than half the size of TR enrollment-wise. So let's double it to... 4. You're intentionally burying you're head in the sand. Look at last year's OSSE report. 6 would be enough to be an outlier. If it's really anything close to 28? The highest in the district last year.

28 with insufficient paperwork means they are intentionally ignoring the rules. I would bet it's in TRY near the MD border and deliberate sloppiness related to the fact they couldn't fill. Other schools have gone down this path. It usually ends with the principal being ousted.

While this is possible, I've actually seen this happen from new staff who don't know the rules or staff who are just not competent and administration doesn't catch on until it's too late to get all the paperwork in hand. Either way, losing up to 28 students is huge budget-wise even for a school network with 1,000 students. I hope the appeal is successful.

TR is infamous for its incompetent staff—admin and teachers. This school should be shut down.