tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-215876249171130248.post3325750353630777048..comments2024-03-26T08:29:17.507-05:00Comments on another blog about school: Follow-up: Voluntary transfersChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559356125770114400noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-215876249171130248.post-40672902990621444332017-01-26T16:30:16.801-06:002017-01-26T16:30:16.801-06:00What Liebig?
You're using something you oppo...What Liebig? <br /><br />You're using something you opposed as justification for more of the same. <br /><br />You're full of crap Liebig! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-215876249171130248.post-91842638621398763562017-01-20T19:13:21.234-06:002017-01-20T19:13:21.234-06:00This policy is bull through and through. Moving Al...This policy is bull through and through. Moving Alexander students away from City. Then forcing Kirkwood north. Then closing down the doors for 9th and 10th graders to so there's no choice between West and Liberty. It's all part of one plan that is designed to give CHS a shot at becoming the more successful and attractive school. What a bunch of crap. CHS has a multi year power play and they got it with low down and dirty tactics. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-215876249171130248.post-25005276826646197132017-01-11T08:37:26.221-06:002017-01-11T08:37:26.221-06:00Thanks, Arial. I agree that the board should have...Thanks, Arial. I agree that the board should have settled the rules about voluntary transfers before, not after, soliciting applications, and that no one ever should have been given the impression that transfers would be available regardless of capacity concerns. And (especially as a parent of a seventh grader and an eighth grader), I understand why the students are upset about what’s being required of them. One big obstacle for me, though, is that all of the arguments that the Wickham-area eighth graders are making could also be made by the Kirkwood-area eighth graders, who are being required to go to Liberty even though all of their Northwest Junior High classmates are headed to West. No freshmen (or sophomores!) assigned to Liberty are allowed to transfer out next year (subject to the hardship exception), so they’re very much in the same position. I don’t see how the board could fairly allow Wickham-area eighth graders to transfer into Liberty while not allowing Kirkwood-area eighth graders to transfer into West. Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07559356125770114400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-215876249171130248.post-83289078569187141432017-01-11T08:22:03.747-06:002017-01-11T08:22:03.747-06:00After many of the community comments last night we...After many of the community comments last night were focused on this, I thought I would come back and comment too. I appreciate that this decision was made. As a family assigned to Liberty that doesn't want to be, hearing that the school wouldn't be intentionally, excessively overcrowded with transfers while my kids would be attending made me think for a moment maybe I do want my kids to go there. This at least reduces one of the problems I had with my children being assigned to Liberty and I think it probably eases the minds of others assigned to Liberty as well. <br /><br />But, I will say, in defense of all the students/families who are upset about this decision, I went to many meetings over the past 2 years and at 3 different meetings I heard from multiple administrators that Wickham area students would be allowed to transfer into Liberty (they might have said "probably" or "most likely", but they seemed really confident to me about transfers being allowed). It can be frustrating to ask all the right questions and get all the right answers and then have the tables turned. It is why some parents don't trust the school district.arialhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18425016294284872701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-215876249171130248.post-22904595571363270482017-01-08T21:52:21.480-06:002017-01-08T21:52:21.480-06:00Anon (7:49): I didn't think it would pass. I ...Anon (7:49): I didn't think it would pass. I wasn't even expecting to get four votes as to freshmen.<br /><br />Anon (9:00): I did not understand the rationale for voting "no," so I'm reluctant to try to summarize it.<br /><br />Anon (9:02): Yes, full projections for Liberty are <a href="http://www.boarddocs.com/ia/iccsd/Board.nsf/files/AGFPLU653138/$file/EP_rpt_FINAL_iowacity_20161117_ann.pdf#page=91" rel="nofollow">here</a>, for West <a href="http://www.boarddocs.com/ia/iccsd/Board.nsf/files/AGFPLU653138/$file/EP_rpt_FINAL_iowacity_20161117_ann.pdf#page=93" rel="nofollow">here</a>, and for City <a href="http://www.boarddocs.com/ia/iccsd/Board.nsf/files/AGFPLU653138/$file/EP_rpt_FINAL_iowacity_20161117_ann.pdf#page=95" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07559356125770114400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-215876249171130248.post-11004354375378819452017-01-08T21:02:09.018-06:002017-01-08T21:02:09.018-06:00Is there projected enrollment about City and West ...Is there projected enrollment about City and West somewhere too?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-215876249171130248.post-39309256744627093902017-01-08T21:00:07.681-06:002017-01-08T21:00:07.681-06:00Why did Lynch, Deloach and Kirschling vote no?Why did Lynch, Deloach and Kirschling vote no?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-215876249171130248.post-79170052529546254232017-01-08T19:49:50.680-06:002017-01-08T19:49:50.680-06:00Why didn't you also move to prohibit next year...Why didn't you also move to prohibit next year's sophomores from transferring into Liberty?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com