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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can the Shaw MS folks explain to me the separate principal issue?  I'm in a McKinley MS feeder, and the principal there is also the principal of McKinley Tech.  My kid is still little so I know very little about MS issues, just starting to follow these threads.  Thanks![/quote]

It is a focus thing and whether one admin can deal with everything going on at the school and all the central office BS.

From a social-emotional perspective, there is more uniformity of needs in an elementary school -- than there is between 6th-8th graders and high school students.

McKinley Tech has to manage an outreach and marketing program to try to get students to apply, and then get them into college. The IB MS population, at least now, should be getting significant academic support to bring them up to grade level proficiency or at least keep moving toward it.

The McKinley principal is good. But it is a lot to ask of one person. [/quote]

The principal of Cardozo actually said in the public meeting that she did not have time for the middle school.  She seems to be running three programs there and did not want of ask for this middle school business. [/quote]

This.  Is it too much to hope for that a school.be wanted and cared for by its own principal? No wonder the feeder capture rate is so low.[/quote]

It is a mess, at least they are clear about fixing that now as the explained at last nights meeting.  Maybe capture rates will go up.  Hard to imagine that is all it takes to make the middle school there appealing, situated as it is next to a school with such a poor academic record, and a pregnant teen program.  Or is that pregnant teen program a myth?[/quote]

Why shouldn't pregnant teens have a program? Should we send them to a boarding school far away so you don't need to see them? Have them drop out and be under- or unemployed parents?

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They should have a program, but a school with a pregnant teen program is one that I will opt out of.  Is all I am saying. Especially a pregnant teem program at a school where most kids cannot read and write at grade level.  Just realistic given the choices I have. Having more middle school teaching staff and a principal will make it more appealing to some though. [/quote]

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