[RP TownTalk] FW: Cut-throughs/development

[Jonathan W. Ebbeler]

Melissa – 

 

I posted a link to the American Community Survey 5-year Estimates that University Park is kind enough to have on their website.  If you missed it the first time I will include it again:

http://www.upmd.org/docs/11-542-1300117298.xls

 

I prefer to turn to aggregate statistics when discussing what people as a whole do or do not do.  That way we take emotions and any inherent bias out of the discussions and let the numbers speak for themselves.  I do not think any of us are in a position with any degree of certainty to define individual motivations.  What I will comment on is that the form of school does not a good student make.  

 

Although the study does not break down their intervals to directly address the timeframes of grades 1-6 and 7-12 you can extrapolate enough based upon their time bands of 1-4,5-8, and 9-12 to realize that once you discount margins of error on the data sampling consumer behavior does not change much and approximately 50% of students matriculate in private schools throughout their secondary education.

 

In case people do not want to look at the Study I will post the relevant statistics that address your comments concerning University Park’s demographics as they relate to schools:

 

Males Grades 1-4

Public: 29

PRIVATE: 40

Private = 58%

 

Females Grades 1-4

Public:28

Private: 16

Private = 36%

 

Male + Female Private Grades 1-4 = 50%

 

Males Grades 5-8

Public: 24

PRIVATE: 49

Private = 67%

 

Females Grades 5-8

Public:22

Private: 17

Private = 44%

 

Male + Female Private Grades 5-8 = 59%

 

Males Grades 9-12

Public: 42

PRIVATE: 36

Private = 46%

 

Females Grades 9-12

Public:33

Private: 44

Private = 57%

 

Male + Female Private Grades 9-12 = 52%

 

 

 

 

 

From: Melissa Avery [mailto:m.avery at rocketmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 11:51 AM
To: Jonathan W. Ebbeler
Cc: towntalk at riverdale-park.org
Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] Cut-throughs/development

 

The majority of University Park Residents send their children to the University Park Elementary School.- I lived there , had a kid grow up there- from Kindergarten  to 6th grade, for the experiance of public school and to save enough money for 7th -12 grade.

After the 6th grade most parents are faced with a the problem -

Every one's kid  takes the test to get into a special program at Roosevelt. If that fails, then  they send the kid to  privet school or school in another county, or state with relatives. some manage to get their kids into special schools for gifted or challenged paid for by the state.

That's just the way it is.

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