Hello All,
What is the solution to what is an obvious problem as it has been part of
numerous conversations during School Committee meetings about retaining kids
who are leaving? (FYI, it is a fact parents are choosing private over public
from my communication with other parents who have made that choice to pay out
of pocket instead of LPS) Why is Lincoln ranked #162 in Elementary and #58 in
Middle School when we have all the greatest things available to us to provide
for our children?? I have my views and have expressed this to the School
Committee and Administration who have basically dismissed my concerns so I give
up. My focus in on my child and to provide whatever resources needed to make
sure he gets the best education he can. The best thing that happened is the 8th
Grade teachers, they have challenged kids to learn, focused on the subjects at
hand and held the kids accountable. You can talk data to try and support your
candidates for School Committee but real honest questions are being asked and
this community does not want to address them as the root cause of our failure
to not only retain kids but have kids "Exceed Expectations" instead of just
"Meeting Expectations".
You can use data but I will give you a first hand experience, the 8th Grade
teaching needs to be the model for the Middle School.
The priority needs to be focused on critical thinking. If you want a real
"Audit" that matters, have every Middle School class required to have bi-weekly
quizzes in every subject(it costs NOTHING). If you want to rid the school of
bad behavior, have real and immediate consequences. It will not affect us as
our child is leaving 8th Grade for LSHS, so you can take what I have to say and
dismiss it as has been done by the School Committee or you can vote for people
who really want change for what is best for the KIDS education and actually
give a diverse view. You can spin it any way you want but we are failing our
children from all communities that attend LPS, if that is not a real concern to
parents then we are not paying attention to the details.
Thanks,John Gregg
On Wednesday, March 22, 2023 at 09:13:25 AM EDT, Karla Gravis
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
Since the topic of trends has come up, I pulled together attrition data for
previous years, straight from the DOE website:
| School | 2016-2017 | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 | 2020-2021 |
2021-2022 | 2022-2023 |
| Lincoln | 6.2 | 6.8 | 7.1 | 6.8 | 7.8 | 5.0 | 8.5 |
| Carlisle | 2.7 | 3.7 | 4.0 | 2.9 | 4.3 | 2.3 | 3.5 |
| Dover/Sherborn | 2.7 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 4.8 | 4.1 | 3.0 |
| Lexington | 3.7 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 2.5 | 6.2 | 5.9 | 4.2 |
Going back as far as 2016, Lincoln School consistently has the highest
attrition in this group (with only one single exception in 2021 where Lexington
was higher, but we were still higher than Carlisle and Dover/Sherborn). Getting
this data is a very manual process, which is why I focused on our similar
districts plus Lexington that was used as a comparison, but I am happy to add
other towns if people are interested.
It's not a difference of 1 - 2 students. Carlisle has a similar size to ours
(383 in grades 2-7 versus our 356). If we had had their attrition coming into
2022-2023, we would have lost 18 fewer children. I am not making an assumption
as to why our attrition is higher, but I do think it is worth investigating.--
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