The Global Learning Charter continues to lose a
huge number of students from the first year of enrollment to the last. What
happened to all those other students? Why did they leave?
We
looked at the number of students enrolled in a given year, as reported to the
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, and then
followed that class to find out how many were still enrolled in each subsequent
years. The drop-off is dramatic.
Here
is DESE enrollment data for the Global Learning Charter School class of 2012.
The numbers of students in this class each year is as follows:
Grade 5: 36
Grade 6: 72
Grade 7: 69
Grade 8: 66
Grade 9: 31
Grade 10: 28
Grade 11: 23
Grade 12: 19
21 comments:
"Dr. Stephen Furtado, executive director of the Global Learning Charter Public School, said one of the school's missions over the past year has been to interact more with the New Bedford school system."
Really? Does New Bedford Public Schools know of your mission or is it just in your own mind?
Global Learning Charter School is a failure and Mitchell knows it. Just ask Lynn Poyant, his campaign manager, she coincidentally got a job there immediately after Mitch became mayor. The old boy network is thriving in N.B., thanks to Mitchell.
Jon Mitchell has sold out every teacher in New Bedford. Let's all make sure this is his first and last term.
What's Mitchell doing about crime in our city? Wasn't he going to fight crime head on? What happened? Crime is rampant and we haven't anything from him.
To the last post: Maybe he's to busy running the school system and doesn't have time to deal with trivial issues like crime.
There is zero collaboration between charter and district. That's just a fact. Furtado is lying.
If the Global Learning Charter School is so great then why haven't they participated in International Robotics winning honors like the high school students, winning national financal liteacy exam recognition as 7 students from the high school did, and the JROTC cadets being the only school in New England to be invited for the third year to George Mason Universiy to participate in academic competition? Seems to me that they can't hold a candle to New Bedford High School students.
Six million from the NBPS's budget to the charter school which has an enroll of less than 500 students. What is the cost per child, oh, and lets not forget, when the students opts out of get booted out of the charter school, they come back to the public school but the money stays at the charter school. Must pay those BIG salaries!
Charter does not offer the same high school experience as the larger schools do. If kids want to play athletics (NBHS has more than any other high school in the area), join band or choruses, take shop classes etc, their options are NBHS or Voc-tech. NBHS also offers more SPED services and alternative settings and programs for at-risk students. We do everything in our restricted power to address drop out prevention. Charter does NOTHING, I repeat, NOTHING to address the drop out rate in this city.
People need to stop pretending to be blind and ignorant to the truth. There are great things that happen in our city schools and it's about damn time people started paying attention! Support your New Bedford Public Schools! Come to a Lady Whalers basketball game. They are an amazing example of hard work and dedication. Check out one of the All City Middle School Band's or the Whaler Marching Band's many performances and marvel at the talent that our kids have. Come rally behind the Whalers at a football game this fall. Check out the promo video on Vimeo.com for NBHS's Engineering Academy and when you are undoubtedly impressed by it, go and tell a friend about it. Support the children of this city by supporting the schools. Small schools are not the cure all for education. And let's face it, Would you rather have a potential friend pool of less than 100 people to choose from or a pool that was over 2300? Personally... I like options. Ironically charter seems to be the option that students choose least.
what are the odds that "Dr." Furtado and Lynn Pyant were at Mayor Mitchell's $100 per person fundraiser tonight? Gotta pay for that patronage.... hope Mitchell's turnout was a flop!
We all know the reason for the 6-7-8 numbers. Parents do not want their kids in the Middle Schools.Lets really face the facts. How many kids leave the system after the 5th grade? How many leave the system after the 8th grade? Those numbers would be interesting. If you have taught in any of the big three you know the issues.The Charter school has nothing more to offer than the option of safety and discipline.
If you look at the number of students that started in the 5th grade (36 students)and compare it to the number of students that graduated from the 12th grade (19 students)you'll see a difference of 17. That means they ended up losing 47.2% of their students.
Look at the number of students that started in the 9th grade (31 students)and compare it to the number of students that graduated from the 12th grade (19 students)you'll see a difference of 12. So the charter school lost 38.7% of their students from 9th to 12th grade. How can any one call that school a success?
More startling to me is that they lost 53% of their students between the 8th and 9th grade.
No matter how you look at it, if they were a good school they wouldn't lose so many of their students.
I am not a educator. I work in real estate . Im a proud graduate of the new bedford public schools. There is a real problem with parents not wanting their kids attending the three middle schools. I hear it often. Families do consider moving out of the city just so their kids wont attend any of the middle schools. The worst part of this is many of the families contemplating such moves are graduates of nbps. Shea was right. There is a perception problem. I think that is more than half of the battle.
My sources inside the GLCPS tell me that discipline there is as bad or worse than the NBPS middle schools.
Mr. Shea can "change the perception" by replacing the middle school leaders with people that can establish safety, order, and discipline. If ALL also hold the students accountable for meeting academic and attendance standards, our district will make great strides.
As for the DESE Turnaround Plan, the city can use it to line the cages at Buttonwood Park.
Bravo to the watchdog.
Then hopefully he replaces the middle school leaders who allow this lack of discipline and safety to continue. If all of our teachers were allowed to teach and not have to deal with the bull that administration allows to happen on a daily basis I think that will start to "change the perception "
The Charter School was touted as an "incubator of success", that would share great ideas with the NBPS system...this has never been the case-from year one until this day-NOTHING has been shared.
Perhaps I did not make myself clear. We need to look at the districts numbers,because of the loss of students whith concerned parents.
Question for Mr. Shea and Mayor Mitchell. If the GLCS is so great, why do so many students come back to NBPS? One would think that they would want o stay there and graduate from that "fine" institution!
Coming from a former student, the school has greatly declined. I use to go to NBPS, and boy, I wished I had stayed. Many teachers at NBPS were expirenced and had many years under their belts. Teachers at GLCPS are fresh outta school with no expirence and they think they know every single thing.
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