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[quote=Anonymous]This is true^  Now that we've established that CHPSPO's "wing and a prayer" approach is not going to pull any of us into these schools, which seem to have insurmountable issues, can we try and have a constructive conversation about them?  There's got to be a better way than charter across the city or sacrificial lamb.  I've tried to have some of these conversations but with CHPSPO in the room, eye-rolling in disgust, they've been limited.

I was beating the drum a year or so ago on another Ward 6 MS thread that we should think about "specializing" the schools.  I know "test-in" is a frightful, dirty thing, but let's think about it hypothetically for a moment.

I propose Hine become a test-in program and then Jefferson get the money and the extra support for becoming a special ed/vocational training program with stellar sports facilities and additional teachers and wrap-around services.  I know, these are 6th graders we're discussing, so let's not "doom" them to lives of labor and dashed NFL dreams already, but we are talking about a population of high-risk kids, who can't even read in 6th grade, and whose chances of graduating and going to college or exceedingly slim.  They need another solution than wasting away in a MS that doesn't seem to be managing them well or preparing them for high school, and getting them thinking about vocation now, vs. just being failures, is working in many other countries this young.

Plus, if any of these high-risk can test-in to Hine, then they are surrounded by a cohort that isn't sucking up the time they could receive and the "higher-SES" families will have their reassurances.  And when I say "test-in", I'm not saying the kids need to know calculus - they just need to be able to read at grade level.   I think this would change the school literally, overnight and solve the problem of people clamoring for an accessible charter.

Given Bowser's "empowering males of color" initiative, could we ever make it work?[/quote]

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