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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How did meeting go tonight? Takeaways?[/quote]

One big takeaway is that they seem to be planning to reduce transfers and are managing that process differently next school year. It may be harder for a student to transfer out for language, for example, because they will make alternative options available. [/quote]

My takeaways:

--Lewis parents (like myself) are very upset that this boundary process did nothing to actually move more students to Lewis.
--We are upset that they would even consider moving more kids out of Lewis (Rolling Valley).  But it seems that this came to a surprise at Dr. Reid so I'm hopeful this will be fixed in scenero 5.
--We need to be supportive of cracking down on reasons for kids to leave Lewis
--Our parents and community are wonderful and Lewis is a great school, but we need more students

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[b]Why would you want to make it harder for students to leave?[/b]

Also interested why you'd want note students in?  Expanding the size of teams and clubs?[/quote]

Because 300 kids pupil place out of Lewis every year which is the reason why it’s under enrolled. Better to bring them back to their home school with AP and language classes then to try to force hundreds of other kids from different neighborhoods to move into Lewis to replace them. If you don’t close the pupil place loopholes those kids will pupil place out too. That’s why we have to start there.[/quote]

They need to do both.  Slowing pupil placement won't fully solve the problem. [/quote]

Stopping pupil placements would indeed directly solve the problem.[/quote]

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