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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d say GAS isn’t far behind. They’ve laid off teachers more than once due to their situation - I was one of them several years ago. They currently do not have an 8th grade class. 
They rented the MS out to Diener to stay afloat, but they are now gone - and they’re MS is the smallest it’s been ever. People seem to like the new HoS, moreso than the last 2-3. lol. There’s been a lot of turnover there.

I would have a hard time investing any faith in a future at GAS if I had a young student. They are a mini version of SSFS. [/quote]

The eighth grade thing is being blown out of proportion, they don't have an eighth grade this year but so what. All schools sometimes have bigger or smaller grades some years. The new HoS has been making things better all the time. The money from Diener is kept. As someone who has had children attending both Green acres and SSFS, Gas is absolutely not a mini version of SSFS, which has been crumbling for years. GAS is staying open.
Please don't speak on these things until you are more qualified.[/quote]

"Our retention of 7th graders was 0% but so what."[/quote]

I can tell you it's not a retention issue or the quality of the program. It was specific to that year. But that's a detail no one will tell you because they can't.[/quote]

Oooookay. So there was a problem, a secret problem, and the school failed to deal with it so everyone left? [/quote]

how is that what you got out of that[/quote]

I mean, everyone left-- or at least enough people left that the school chose not to operate an 8th grade at all. Why did everyone leave? Oh, it's a secret. But everything is fine and nothing bad happened. Come on! You really think that's going to be convincing? [/quote]

Some people left because siblings were going to different schools.

Others left when staff members left.

Some left when spots opened in schools that better suited their needs.

There was a gender imbalance too.

Etc.

There wasn’t one straw that broke the camel’s back. Or a deep dark secret.

It was a trickle that turned into a cascade and had never happened before or hasn’t happened since. [/quote]
+1. it's that simple.[/quote]

That's not simple, though! These things don't just randomly happen for no reason. They are red flags.

"Left when staff members left"-- why?  Does that mean parents weren't happy with the remaining staff? That staff retention is poor? That staff members left and withdrew their own kids? None of that is good.

Similarly a gender imbalance is not simple. Why was it imbalanced? Was there some behavior or classroom atmosphere putting off parents of a certain gender kids? Why was it not remedied by adjusting admissions?

"Schools that better suited their needs"-- what's that a euphemism for? Needed more SN support? Harder academics? Easier academics? Who knows, but the common thread is some significant number of people in that class chose Green Acres, knew it well, and found it not to their liking. [/quote]

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