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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]10:50 here.

actually that document on p. 9 says exactly what I said about how people got stuck.

don't confuse the rise in ACPS enrollment with enthusiasm for the school system.[/quote]

You are correct that it indicates all of the reasons why it would be difficult for people to move. I don't think anyone is disputing that accurate enrollment projections need to keep factors like the economy in mind.
However...
As I tried to mention in my earlier post, it's worthwhile to keep in mind that even BEFORE 2007, when the presumably it would have been very easy for people to move it they wanted, the cohort survival rate was STILL 93.2% for elementary school, and 93.5 for middle. Those kinds of number indicate that there were not droves of people fleeing. Even if every single one of those people left for the reasons you suppose (ignoring there might be other reasons why someone might leave) that still is only 7%.[/quote]

Actually, that's a pretty high abandonment rate.[/quote]

Pre-2007, Del Ray was gentrifying and lots of couple, families with infants and toddlers were living there so not a large mass of school age kids except for the public housing and the concentration of large high rises in the West End that offered lower cost housing for families which began to attract a large number of immigrant families.  These families were a captive audience for the public schools and still are. Add in the fact other parts of the City historically just didn't have a lot of people or kids (currently the City's population is 144K compared with Ffx Cty at 1.1M).

I am honestly baffled how and why people like you choose to debate the fact that poverty, public housing and a quick and large influx of immigrant/ESL children contributes to the poor performance in City schools can't get ahead and the negative effects it has on the students in the schools.  Even the "better" elementary schools have a least a 30% FARMS rate which is very high compared to neighoring school districts. Worse, it seems like some of the supporters like think "poverty" is something neat and cool and makes you feel very urban in a suburban area.

Also, to the GW teacher, the City has a higher rate of pay that some other surrounding jursidictions leading me not to believe that the teachers are all that altruistic.[/quote]

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