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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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].

NP and I agree! Slow transfers AND add students. [/quote]

If the 300 lewis zoned kids remained at Lewis, the school would be at full capacity with no room for any additional students.

Start with the families that bought houses zoned for Lewis before experimenting on moving kids who live in schools zones from other neighborhoods. [/quote]

So, you’re advocating that there be no transfers from any school and not just from Lewis, right? Or are you singling out Lewis? IMO, I say don’t allow any transfers for any reason other than SpecialEd. It will make planning easier. Singling out Lewis is indefensible.[/quote]

Well, the discussion was about Lewis.

Sure, stop school transfers everywhere 
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One of the SB members did say in the discussion on start times that 30% of bus routes are for transfer students, which feels like a really big number.  Feels like if they dropped IB that would solve a lot at the HS level and if they do follow through with AAP centers at every middle school that will help.

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I wonder how that’s calculated. Our base school is an AAP center. Our school bus picks up both transfer and in bound students because our neighborhood is split between two elementary schools. Is that route counted as a transfer bus, even though majority of the riders are base students?

I thought AAP accounted for <20% of K-8, and at the middle school level, more than half the schools are already AAP centers. I’m all for AAP in every middle school, but I don’t think it’s the long pole in the tent for that 30% figure. [/quote]

Transportation outside of your “assigned” school could be a lot of things - TJ, the alternative schools, AAP, special education program transfers, preschool kids going to the closest open preschool program … and a lot of those buses are not even close to full so it does put a lot of busses on the road. Increasing program availability (MS AAP, more preschool programs, more of the specialized autism classrooms etc.) would decrease the number of busses on the road but would probably increase the facilities budget or create the use of more modulars/trailers. If 100 MS AAP transfers come back to their base school that could easily put a school over capacity. [/quote]

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