Edited on Wed Nov-19-03 12:08 AM by dsc
I work in a moderate sized school system one of which's elementary schools is judged a failing school. Therefore parents may transfer to any elementary school in the system that they wish. Apparently this has happened to no small extent. So far so good one would think. But, this is where it gets odd. The school to which they transferred is every bit as bad (I haven't a clue how they are not judged a failing school). Why did this happen? Simple, that is the only elementary school close to the failing one. So the school which was judged failing has fewer students and thus somewhat lower student-teacher ratio while the school which had to be close to failing has more students and larger classes. It seems to me that this is going to lead to schools near failing schools failing themselves. After all, bad schools are going to tend to be near each other since bad neighborhoods tend to have bad schools. Assumedly this isn't intended but it seems unavoidable.
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