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| 4kids | Nov 16 2006, 04:52 PM Post #16 |
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I heard of many, many more that have left from many people who said they did not do the survey. Some left right away, before the survey was out there. And the survey was not reachable for many either, and I bet people didn't do it because they didn't want to be known why they left the district, including teachers who work in the district. |
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| Hull_CHS | Nov 16 2006, 05:09 PM Post #17 |
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There are many of us that have chosen to homeschool our children, specifically because of the L.I. |
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| c3hull | Nov 16 2006, 05:28 PM Post #18 |
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I know of a few families that decided to Home School and a few went to St. Paul's Lutheran. Notice how the biggest exodus was the elementary kids. That is due to the LIe, not the economy! |
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| fyi | Nov 16 2006, 07:52 PM Post #19 |
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This seems like a large loss at this level. I wonder what the loss at this level was last year? Is this normal? |
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| 49chevy | Nov 16 2006, 08:59 PM Post #20 |
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We moved our 4th grader to Clarenceville...Grandview. He knows of 4 others from LPS there. Wonder how many others are there that he does not know about??? |
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| Livonia Voter | Nov 16 2006, 10:04 PM Post #21 |
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Whatever happened to thier expert who was always within 1/2 a percent? Has anyone called him to ask his opinion as to why LPS lost so many students? Does anyone think he will say it's just the economy? Sigh... |
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| mikefromholland | Nov 16 2006, 11:00 PM Post #22 |
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The raw number by itself is not meaningful. I don't remember on which thread Nancy F. posted the grade by grade enrollment data recently (I meant to copy it into a spreadsheet by didn't get around to it). Compare the number of 6th graders last year to the number of 9th graders. That provides a good starting point for projecting changes in middle school enrollment. (Your middle schools are 7-9?). Or get the district's projections broken down by grade level and see what they were expecting in the middle school this year. Then you can start to draw an inference about whether this was normal or not. I will mention an observation I made in Holland, although it was not statistically significant (because of the low numbers involved). Large and significant losses were observed in the elementary grades after focus schools were implemented. But some small losses were also observed in grades 6 and 7 which are in the middle school in Holland. A possible mechanism to explain this would be families pulling kids out of middle school grades, even though there were no changes there, to keep those kids together with the elementary age kids who were being sent to a different school. |
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| fyi | Nov 17 2006, 07:57 AM Post #23 |
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I think it was 1/4 of a percent?
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| fyi | Nov 17 2006, 08:00 AM Post #24 |
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That's what I was thinking. Parents may be pulling their kids out and putting them in the same school---possibly a private school---k-8? Or perhaps the family moved out of Livonia? I have kids that range in age from 13-2. If we leave the district, they would be losing children from many different levels. |
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| mikefromholland | Nov 17 2006, 12:18 PM Post #25 |
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Yes, fyi, exactly the point. It's more likely to show up at middle school level rather than high school because a family with elementary age kids is more likely to have middle school age kids than it is to have high school age kids. |
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| fyi | Nov 20 2006, 10:43 PM Post #26 |
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Well.....that solves the whole mystery as to why the enrollment at the elementary level is much lower this year than it has been in the last ten years. I'm so glad they closed all the schools....I wonder what would have happened if they didn't close all the schools?
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