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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what/who should decide the future of the school? Should research about what makes a two-way immersion model most successful? Should the realities of maintaining the needed student body? Should the principal? Should the parents? What should decide this. I believe the school should be structured around what is necessary to keep the TWI model most vibrant and functional. Looking at it from all angles, they seem to all point to changing the status of the school as a neighborhood school. Can someone "pro-neighborhood" explain how I'm wrong or show a model where the integrity of the twi model can be maintained within the confines of the current system? I think we all want what's best here.[/quote]

The District should decide.

Many of the proposals developed by the OA community group met the goals keeping the school and neighborhood school, dealing with the over crowing issues and maintaining the current model and mix of English/Spanish speaking student.

OA is a neighborhood school.  It is THE school the serves the children who live within its boundaries.  It has been in the community as a bilingual school for over 40 years.  If folks want to start [b]another[/b] city-wide bi-lingual magnet school - that's great and I fully support it.  But that school would not be Oyster-Adams.  If some staff and faculty want to work in another school that’s fine too.  But, suggesting that the community process or the survey data collected from a representative sample of the entire community support that approach is simply wrong and deceiving.

Yes – the district and the OA administration should look at research.  However, there is no research that I’m aware of that suggests that a city-wide magnet school would improve outcomes for children (and aside from research there are other proposals that meet the many goals of both the community and the district better than a city-wide magnet program).  There is however, research that suggests neighborhood schools improve child outcomes and parent and community involvement.

This proposal makes clear to me that the LSAT and administration simply want to serve a different population and have more control over the student (and parent) population.  Instead of looking at how to better meet the needs of and retain current student through middle school, they blame the families for leaving and label them as not committed (despite the fact that the data clearly show that the overwhelming majority of families are committee to the model). When an organization stops asking how it can do better and instead blames the people it is trying to serve for problems, learning and potential are stilted.  
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