That is one issue I have wondered about the open enrollment system. If a small handful of schools starts to excell in academics or sports, then every family in the area that is eligible is naturally going to want to send their children to those schools. Wouldn't that make the majority of the schools and small communities suffer?

I am not following your question.

I am not following your question.

 

You said that you think that a large percentage of the Jefferson county schools are scoring badly on their CATS scores, I was just trying to figure out if that is true and why would that be happening.

JCPS means Jefferson County Public School System.

 

You love to try and stir up the pot, don't you?

 

Accept it. Competition is a good thing. Good for academics, good for athletics, good for the drama department, good for the community.

 

If there's no competitiveness, schools will stay stagnant. There's no incentive to improve. They're going to be guaranteed the same number of students and get the same money no matter what. There's no incentive to make kids want to attend their school.

 

But, if all you want is to make sure everyone gets the same mediocre education, that's fine. Glad I live in Jefferson County.

Did some research on the KDE website to see how the JCPS schools are doing on the CATS scores. We are told OVER AND OVER AND OVER again that we cannot compare schools that we are supposed to compare against our previous years, but for the sake of argument and thumbing our collective noses at Frankfort, let's compare a school system with open competition, Jefferson County, with a very strict enrollment school in Boone County.

 

Jefferson County has the following schools with CATS scores in the 50's.

Iroquois, 59, Shawnee 54 and Western 52. I believe that would put them in the BOTTOM 10% of the state.

 

Schools in the 60's are Doss 60, Central 66, Fairdale 62, Jefferstown 69, Southern 62, and Waggener 69. I believe that would put them in the bottom 50% of the state but I could be wrong here.

 

JCPS does have two of the TOP HS's in the state with Manual 103 and Male 102. 4 other schools broke into the 80's. Butler and Central at 86, Eastern at 84 and Seneca at 80.

 

6 High SChools doing well with 9 scores that are not so well. Remember EVERY SCHOOL in the state is supposed to be at 100 (I think it is) by 2014

 

Now Boone County's figures. Fastest growing county in the state with closed enrollment.

Boone County High School 80

Ryle High School 83

Conner 83.

 

Markedly better scores by Boone County's High Schools.

 

http://www.education.ky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/excc6rfk6jy463l7a3n3vn2pyaktbjg5chsctagjbjhe4babxdouu7siqqtkge36j4yclzjetqhkrrn4ehhlqpr57qb/MediaReport.doc

That is one issue I have wondered about the open enrollment system. If a small handful of schools starts to excell in academics or sports, then every family in the area that is eligible is naturally going to want to send their children to those schools. Wouldn't that make the majority of the schools and small communities suffer?

 

 

I haven't seen the results of the tests.

 

I can tell you this about open enrollment:

 

Open enrollment is available and Jefferson County offers serveral types of programs, and each have their own requirements, be they application process, or previous attendance at certain schools in the elementary/middle school years.

 

Every student has a "resides" school. Basically that's the home school that student is assigned to based upon their residence. If a student doesn't wish to apply to one of the choices offered at other schools, or is not accepted, then they attend their "resides" school.

 

Interestingly, the resides schools all offer at the minimum some in-school optional educational choice. For instance: some schools have advanced programs or vocational programs.

By contrast, Fayette County has only one High school in the 60's, Bryan Station. The rest are in the 70's or 80's or above.

 

I might have missed a HS because there are a lot of numbers there but I think Providence HS was the ONLY other HS in the state with scores in the 50's. Jefferson County had 3 High schools with scores in the 50's.

 

Covington Holmes scores were absent from the list. Don't know why.

Look at Graves Statistics:

 

Graves County

 

DISTRICT TOTAL P-12 90.0

 

Cuba Elementary School P-06 95.1

Fancy Farm Elementary School P-06 94.8

Farmington Elementary School P-06 101.4

Graves County Central Elementary P-06 100.7

Lowes Elementary School P-06 93.0

Sedalia Elementary School P-06 83.5

Symsonia Elementary School P-06 86.3

Wingo Elementary School P-06 94.6

Graves County Middle School 07-08 91.1

Graves County High School 09-12 85.5

 

Farmington elementary is among the best!! We had all the big wigs come down here a few months ago to see what we were doing right, lol.

Look at Graves Statistics:

 

Graves County

 

DISTRICT TOTAL P-12 82.8 90.0

 

Cuba Elementary School P-06 83.3 95.1

Fancy Farm Elementary School P-06 87.8 94.8 r

Farmington Elementary School P-06 84.9 101.4

Graves County Central Elementary P-06 89.3 100.7 e,r

Lowes Elementary School P-06 83.2 93.0 a

Sedalia Elementary School P-06 82.2 83.5

Symsonia Elementary School P-06 81.2 86.3

Wingo Elementary School P-06 84.5 94.6

Graves County Middle School 07-08 81.9 91.1

Graves County High School 09-12 81.9 85.5

They are doing pretty well.

And I thought public schools were supposed to a place where all felt comfortable. Instead you seem to propose a place where the importance will go on how good can you make us look instead of teach every kid at their level.

 

Because getting a kid that comes to HS with a 3rd grade reading level to a 12th grade reading level is a GREAT success but won't sell well in those ads.

LBBC, I hope you don't teach English, because that isn't even close to what I said.

 

As far as taking a kid with a third grade reading level and taking them to 12th grade reading level, I think it would be an OUTSTANDING selling point.

LBBC, I hope you don't teach English, because that isn't even close to what I said.

 

As far as taking a kid with a third grade reading level and taking them to 12th grade reading level, I think it would be an OUTSTANDING selling point.

That is why I said it "seemed" and I wanted to give you a chance to offer a rebuttal. Thanks for clarifying.

INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indiana High School Athletic Association board of directors unanimously rejected two proposals yesterday to use a multiplier formula to adjust enrollment figures for private and parochial schools.

 

The proposals, which could have forced some of the nonpublic schools into larger tournament classes, were prompted by concerns that private schools had become too successful because of their ability to draw from a larger, more affluent pool of talent.

 

 

 

"It was a good discussion, but in the end, I think the general sentiment was that there was not enough data or support on which to defend that kind of thing," IHSAA commissioner Blake Ress said.

 

One of the proposals would have adjusted enrollment by using different multipliers based on the percentage of students who receive free or reduced-price lunches. It lost 15-0 with one abstention. Another would have multiplied the enrollment used to determine classes by 1.5 for all nonpublic schools. It failed 16-0.

 

In other actions, the board voted:

 

To fill an additional board seat with a private-school representative;

 

To reclassify schools every two years, instead of four, for football only;

 

To table to its June meeting a proposal to allow year-by-year hiring of basketball and football coaches who do not have teaching licenses.

 

That ruling will affect Bedford North Lawrence coach Damon Bailey, who was hired last season but does not have a teaching license.