Where are the new and improved statistics for the five "partial-magnet" schools in the Charleston County School District that received thousands of additional dollars and additional teachers this year "to improve [their] performance and increase student diversity"? See Partial-magnet Growth on Hold in Saturday's P&C.
What's that, you say? It's too soon to know if the programs work? Actually, it isn't--at least in regard to statistics on diversity, but I agree that only six months' experience with the programs is too soon to know if they will improve academic performance at those schools.
So why discuss creating more of them if we don't know yet if they work?
Because that's how Superintendent McGinley sees her job--creating one costly special program after another. You know, throw all of them out there and see which ones hit the fan. We're still waiting on the results of last summer's reading improvement experiment and this year's Sixth-Grade Academy.
Let's focus on reading!
If Sullivan's Island Elementary wants to use the marshes and salt water as assets for its science lessons, it doesn't need a special program to do so!
Saturday, January 02, 2010
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Found out late Friday before Christmas. Daughter brought home tale from afterschool. Get this Burns Elementary is having Principal replaced 3rd in 3 years!
They have had 5 assistant Principals, whole new office staff and 50% or more turnover. I don't even know what my daughter's last principal looked like!
They will never get educated this way! What a nightmare. CCSD covers up its failures by switching Principals so fast no one notices the failing grades. Then anyone who complains gets replaced as well. I wonder if my daughter's teacher will even be there Monday!
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I could certainly be wrong, but my guess is that Sullivan's Island Elementary is below capacity and would like to fill up the school.
I don't see why it needs to become a partial magnet, though - why not just open it up to any transfers once the zoned kids are taken care of?
The thing is, with the price of beach property what it is, I don't see much potential for Sullivan's Island to get an influx of kids otherwise - unless the zone lines are redrawn to take in more of E. Cooper.
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