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Why we don't like the LI; Transitions
Topic Started: Jan 21 2006, 04:41 PM (141 Views)
Momforone
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I think that we need to keep focus on why this proposal is so disruptive to our families and school communities. We need to show up on Monday @ Hoover in numbers and bring our facts. We have to make sure that they aren't going to think we will just disappear. My child is a third grader @ Taylor. Everytime I think what our district has done to us, the angrier I get. We all know that every grade configure study shows the problems with transitions and with every transition the educational losses that take place. The parents in this forum are perceived as being illogical or ignorant, in fact I think it's the opposite. We should ask our Board Members why the demographics community didn't take the stance in proposing K-8 schools in our community. We could of really made a legacy for our district. We wouldn't of needed the the buses. Our kids could all have walked to school. We would have less transitions and higher academic achievement. A stronger sense of community. Higher MEAP scores. More secure students!
Less trouble with our 7th & 8th graders. Kept our 7th & 8th graders kids longer. We would have filled our neighborhood schools. Still could have change our high school boundaries to keep our kids together. Set a new standard of education for a district our size! Any really how much money would that have save? I guess we will never know!
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NFarquharson
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I agree. K-8 is really worth exploring. The educational benefits are clear and I agree about keeping kids as kids longer. We could close all of the middle schools and sell them (throw in Dickinson.) Those properties are very valuable, as they can potentially accommodate both commercial and residential development. The really valuable property to LPS ought to be the elementary schools, precisely because they are in the middle of our neighborhoods!
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Cindi
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I am ALL FOR a K-8 school. Small schools + broad grade configurations = Higher academic achievement!!
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CKlockner
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I too agree. As a Taylor mom for over 10 years, I LOVE that school. It breaks my heart everytime one of those notes about transitions comes home. We have a school with a great staff, wonderfully involved parents, high meaps and a safe neighborhood. I just can not give that up with out a fight. Our kids deserve that. Middle school is two years that are gone in a flash. The kids just get use to the routine and off they go to high school.
K-8 really may be the Legacy we are after. I would need to see more research on it. But it may be better than what we are now faced with.
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