The State rejected the school systems proposal to save it’s four intervene schools from closing or being taken over for several reasons. The most obvious being the school boards proposal violated the law. For some reason the school board thought they could go off the menu and propose whatever they wanted to. Which in case you missed it was slitting the four schools into two smaller schools each that would share the same campus and have a community board for oversight. That’s an A for chutzpah, but a F for rationality.
Maybe just maybe if the state were to say hey you know what. Lets ignore the law the least the school board could have done is to develop a practical idea that might have worked. Hey school board if the kids are already struggling with the regular curriculum what makes you think they are going to do well with specialized ones? Also just where were we going to come up with the extra 2.7 million dollars you said it was going to cost? Furthermore this doesn’t address the real issue which is kids arriving to high school without the ability to read or do math at grade level and without the skills they need to succeed.
I suspect the state would have found a way to acquiesce if they would have been given a viable option unfortunately the school board fumbled that ball (by a 7-0 vote by the way). The same ball they have been fumbling for a decade now.
Chris Guerrieri
School Teacher
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