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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pupil placing is a brain drain on certain schools. Often, it feels like the people most anxious to move other students into these Schools are the families who take advantage of pupil placing and don’t want that pupil placing practice to be scrutinized.

Pupil placement is the first thing that should be looked at. It will solve all the “problems” that the school board complains about.[/quote]

Any time a solution is offered you have to look at what new problems it might cause.

That was one of the biggest flaws with what Thru proposed. They were lazy consultants just looking to collect a fee, so their approach was to identify a problem, come up with the most half-assed solution possible to solve it, and ignore the fact that they created as many problems as they solved.

We should address the reasons why kids are pupil placing, and not just limit them. [/quote]

We are pretty confident that AP vs IB is one of the reasons given.  And, yes, focus needs to be given to good, direct instruction in struggling schools.

I would give an additional stipend to good teachers who volunteer to teach in high FARMS schools.[/quote]

Just following the logic the solution should be eliminating IB in the first instance before halting pupil placements.  One approach is responsive; the other is punitive.,[/quote]

Or offer AP at all schools. Maybe offer IB at schools that express an interest and have at least 10% of the student body complete the diploma. That should lead to 3 maybe 4 schools with IB and AP so students who want IB have a place to go. [/quote]

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