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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It'd be a lot more interesting to have this conversation with anyone who has skin in the game (other than people just looking to kick out EOTP from Deal).

The new principal at Roosevelt seems great.  Perhaps she and the upcoming principal at MacFarland can make something great of the schools.

But that all goes over your heads because *gasp* there will be many poors there.  For those of us who can get past that, maybe there will be something to the school.  And maybe not, but I'm willing to hang around and see instead of poo pooing it because of the "awfulness" of the feeders.[/quote]

just facts.   Any school with more than 30% FARMS rate is going to struggle. then it becomes self fullfilling and the few high SES families will finally give up due to remedial class work and behaviral problems and the school is pretty much nothing but FARMS.[/quote]

I don't think you understand what "facts" are.  I'm familiar with the studies you quote, but your application of their statistics is beyond atrocious.

In fact, the very schools that will feed to MacFarland have been showing the opposite trends.  FARMS rates much higher than 30%, but scores improving, and attracting a growing enrollment, including middle class families.[/quote]

agreed but that high SES PS enrollment is still not evident past 1st grade at these schools. It will take 10-15 years to have a solid high SES cohort of kids from these feeders who would attend McFarland. Minimum 10-15 years.  Look at Cap hill and their middle school delimma. They have multiple options and the parents with options get the eff out by 4th grade to find a charter. [/quote]

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