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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is what it is because the school board and BOS segregates their schools and neigborhoods. They don't have to. They could both balance demographics better if they wanted to. Instead they look the other way. Why should TMS have gotten a LLIV program when the whole purpose of having the AAP program at Jackson was to boost up the school? I'm sure that's why they put the center program there to begin with. Now they've redistricted some of the more wealthy population out of LJ and have allowed the wealthier school to basically have their own center program. It goes against the whole reason for the center programs at disadvantaged schools to begin with.[/quote]

The whole purpose of having an aap program at Jackson was to boost up the school?  What?   Then where would the Thoreau aap kids have gone originally when there was no Thoreau option?  You think they did it to boost up LJ but not really to help the aap kids??? You’re making stuff up. [/quote]

No... they have just been using the AAP kids (from anywhere in the AAP catchment area) to mask what would otherwise be a low-performing school --- at least according to the PP.  You know -- to keep up appearances and housing values.  Put the AAP center in a school and make it look like it's pretty good.  Problem is that the kids who aren't in the center don't get much out of that inflated reputation.  Their classes/classmates are pretty much the same as they would be without the center.

Good news for PP and anyone else with a child zoned for Jackson... the disciplinary stats are likely to improve.  With more space per child (they were SEVERELY over-crowded these past 3+ years), there is a good chance that there will be fewer run-ins and a little more calm in the facility.  Even if the rate of behavior problems remained the same , the actual number of incidents would decline because there will be 300 fewer kids in Jackson.

But -- to PP's point about whether the rezoning was the right decision or not -- that doesn't have anything to do with what it is like at Jackson middle school right now.  You can't point to something that hasn't been implemented to explain why people are leaving or why the PP said that most of the discipline problems are in the non-AAP part.  Whatever has been happening at Jackson has been WITH the kids you wanted to keep at LJ.  (the 1/2 OES/all MWES/1/8 MRES).  [/quote]

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