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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Then why did over 100 kids leave this year after he was gone?[/quote]

What we do know. None of the students that left before the closure announcement due to financial problems. How do we know? Because no one - including the board knew there WERE financial problems. That is the premise of the whole recovery effort. No one knew the school was in debt/on the brink of financial ruin.

So - no student left for financial problems. [b]They all left for school quality issues.[/b] Not just one problem but many. School has never published the results of any exit surveys so we cant know (assuming people feel comfortable being honest in an existing survey which isn’t guaranteed) the breakdown of %student departure to problem type. All you can know is that NONE was related to 22 million in debt.

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Ok come on now, this is just a flat out false blanket statement. I don't know how many families left due to job losses, but it was not a trivial number. I'm sure some (again, a non-trivial) number left because of issues with the school, but to say that EVERYONE left because of that is dishonest and is why people like yourself get called trolls. Also, the school had indicated financial issues last summer, although of course they didn't announce the extent of the issues, so it's also likely that some of the people who had planned to leave before the closure announcement did so because they weren't convinced the school was on solid footing.

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This is always the problem with this school. Heaven forbid you just use one word out of place, then the cheerleaders swoop in and negate the whole thing. Once a poster said how almost 100 kids left and the problem was it wasn’t almost 100 it was “only 75”.

Okay sure everyone didn’t leave for a quality issue. Some people left cause they lost their job, maybe some people moved. But ssfs isn’t the ONLY school in our area almost going out of business because of common issues that effect ALL schools. The majority of kids left due to quality issues. That’s why the enrollment tanked to the brink of closure.

So it’s not everyone. But it’s enough to be a problem. And the school has not published the exit survey.

If you want to make the argument that quality has nothing to do with why the school was going out of business then please share the arguments without attacking choice of words. Most (most not all!) families will make their family finances work to keep their kid in a school that is working well for them. [/quote]

The Fox News School of posting - inflate the numbers by 25% but then call it "using one word out of place".  
The Fox News School of posting - claim anything as "majority" even though you're basing it on yourself and perhaps a few others and then later conceded (halfheartedly), "sure not everyone"...

You are the problem, period.  [/quote]

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