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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Former OA, IB, bilingual Latino family here who took 2 kids out at different years for a variety of reasons.

People often ask me about OA. I'd like to point them toward actual numbers rather than bias them from our experiences.

Has there been any analysis of when and why students leave and where they go? Do they do surveys?

I can speculate from our experience and anecdotes of about a dozen other families similar to ours. But I never heard an official explanation or analysis.

No OA administrator ever asked us why we pulled a born-bilingual, middle class, in-boundary kid out of what should have been the ideal K-8 school. Not even after the first one left. You'd think they'd be at least curious after we took one out pre-3rd grade and the other pre-6th. Several other families told me the same thing. One said an administrator told her "we're not going to beg you to stay. There are plenty of people on the waitlist." A teacher told me "they just want to fill the middle school. They don't care if leave before 5th."

Is there info out there on the website or newsletter that folks think is accurate regarding retention? 
 [/quote]

Would you be willing to share why you left? (Or pulled out your children at different points?)

We are still in the lower grades, but left a HRCS. The difference in the approach at Oyster- with the support of the pull out teachers for reading, the counselor, the school psychologist, plus all of the existing programs like the library and excellent PE teacher- is markedly better.   In our cohort, they've even ensured that the class sizes meet the kids needs. The principal has been very willing to adapt and adjust as needed throughout the course of the year, a trait that we didn't see with other administrators.[/quote]

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