Quote:Thank you for your response.  I can certainly see your point regarding the funding.  However, one thing that must be considered, after the first quarter is it possible that students have "acted out" during that period?  Generally speaking, using your examples of why students end up in your class (getting in too many fights, caught with pot), would you say a student that fit that profile generally has good grades or bad grades?

 

Here is my thinking, and it's all hypothetical of course.  Perhaps "little Johnny" has been getting into too much trouble at school and has bad grades.  His parents want him to do better, so they send him to a private school.  After two or three months (not sure how a quarter is defined on the school calender) little Johnny has gotten into lots of trouble by getting into fights, disrupting class, etc.  He gets caught with pot on school grounds, so the school expels him.

 

Is it possible that the timing just happens to coincide with the end of the first quarter going into the second quarter?

 

I would say that this is an indicator of a parenting problem rather than a school problem.

 

Absolutely it could be a coincidence and I do get students at other times of the year, however, when it comes to charter transfers, they generally come in larger numbers (and this has been for a few years, not a one time occurrence) at the time I mentioned.  

 

Oh, and I don't think that there is a problem with the school for kicking them out, they have that right, I just wish that the funding came with them and the new school (usually public) doesn't have it held against them (in test scores for teacher evaluations or for school grade) considering 25% of the year was spent elsewhere.  Technically, they are not supposed to count against teachers, but it doesn't really work that way.  I once had a foreign exchange student who spoke no English count against me (even though foreign exchange students are not supposed to) because he failed a state exam (not joking).  I once had a student who left my class in late October/Early November to attend another public high school.  He failed his state exam (i don't know if his teacher covered the material or not) and it counted against me.  Now, I challenged the first example (the appeal is going on a few years  :teehee: ) but the second one I didn't bother.  My scores are good enough that a few kids that count against me (even wrongly) doesn't make a difference and it is easier to just ignore it, but not everyone is in that position.  Oh, and students who don't take the exam (whether they decide to just skip it, or, go on vacation {yes this has happened to me}) count against the teacher.  But this is all a rant for another thread.  Sorry!

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