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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Melissa – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><a href="http://www.upmd.org/docs/11-542-1300117298.xls">http://www.upmd.org/docs/11-542-1300117298.xls</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>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:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Males Grades 1-4<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Public: 29<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>PRIVATE: 40<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Private = 58%<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Females Grades 1-4<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Public:28<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Private: 16<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Private = 36%<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Male + Female Private Grades 1-4 = 50%<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Males Grades 5-8<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Public: 24<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>PRIVATE: 49<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Private = 67%<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Females Grades 5-8<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Public:22<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Private: 17<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Private = 44%<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Male + Female Private Grades 5-8 = 59%<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Males Grades 9-12<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Public: 42<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>PRIVATE: 36<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Private = 46%<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Females Grades 9-12<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Public:33<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Private: 44<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Private = 57%<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Male + Female Private Grades 9-12 = 52%<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Melissa Avery <a href="mailto:[mailto:m.avery@rocketmail.com]">[mailto:m.avery@rocketmail.com]</a> <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 11, 2012 11:51 AM<br><b>To:</b> Jonathan W. Ebbeler<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:towntalk@riverdale-park.org">towntalk@riverdale-park.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [RP TownTalk] Cut-throughs/development<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>After the 6th grade most parents are faced with a the problem -<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>That's just the way it is.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>