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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone explain how they arrived at their fr/l calculations for the presentation? Because maybe this isn't so bad for Drew after all. If the calculated fr/l numbers are much higher than the current actual numbers, what can Drew expect? For instance, here are the actual 2017 fr/l percentages by school vs. the calculated % in the presentation:

Abingdon: 47.16% vs. 52%
Barcroft: 59.67% vs. 62%
Henry: 31.59% vs. 29%
Hoffman Boston: 49.16% vs. 70%
Oakridge: 25.28% vs. 28%
Randolph: 73.67% vs. 92%

Do if Drew is calculated to be 85%, what is the actual? Seems like it, too, would be significantly lower? Maybe more like 65%?

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Hard to say, but I doubt it'll drop more han 10 points if it does. Hoffman's rate is being cut in half because[b] it's sending a lot of poor kids in Nauck back to Drew,[/b] for example, not because of the vagaries of resident vs enrolled students. Randolph appears to be a distinct case; the difference there may be because it sends Spanish speaking kids who are disadvantaged to claremont. The other schools on your list barely change. So I'd say Drew probably won't change much.[/quote]

But I don't think that's the case. The kids whose parents knew enough a out the system got them into Montessori or or Claremont or Hoffman. If those kids are no longer given guarantees to either option school and are sent out of Hoffman to make way for the newly assigned PUs, won't more of them be at Drew (assuming the don't all get into an option program)?

Anyway, I do think they need to take a few of the adjacent Henry PUs to Drew. According to the table, there are a few that have fewer than 10 students eligible for fr/l, so that's not going to adversely harm diversity at Henry. If they can get Drew to 60% it would be manageable, IMHO. Not ideal, but manageable. I also think APS really needs to look at its model of instruction. Seems not to be working very well in schools where students probably need more explicit and direct instruction.

Last comment: this proves my point that option schools should be strategically located to assist with diversity. Look what moving Montessori to the whiter wealthier neighborhood is doing: making it less accessible for poor families who may not opt to move with the program due to concerns about distance, AND leaving behind a neighborhood school with high poverty. I understand that both the elderly Nauck residents and AMAC wanted this, but it was not a good idea for diversity. [/quote]

The numbers released yesterday for Drew include those students currently attending Hoffman. The only way hoffman's farms rate could have gone down so much is if [b]some chunk of those Nauck kids are disadvantaged. Just because they are disadvantaged doesn't mean they do t know how to avoid Drew. [/b]After all, that's likely what some of the disadvantaged kids in the Randolph zone are doing when they transfer to claremont. I know people don't really want to believe that Drew is going to be as poor as carlin springs, but that is the reality.

And as for the implication that the Nauck Civic Assn didn't want white kids from Henry, that's slander. They simply wanted a neighborhood school that had been denied them since bussing began in the early 1970s. They didn't ask for some segregated enclave, but that is what they are getting.[/quote]

If that's the case, it bodes well for Drew. The parents are plugged in a looking for "better" for their kids. Those are the families who push their kids to do more and overcome the circumstances of their family of origin. That said,

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Oops, hit submit too soon. That said, it's really irresponsible of APS to send kids who are considered "at-risk" into a very high poverty school, while ignoring the other criteria of proximity and (previous definition of) efficiency, and alignment, and contiguity. On its face it looks like they are ignoring every single objective criteria in order to gerrymander Fleet and keep them "together." Send the adjacent PUs from Fleet to Drew. [/quote]

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