http://westlakepicayune.com/2009/07/29/recent-study-touts-local-grad-rates/ Westlake Picayune is a publication of Austin Community Newspapers Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:50:47 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://westlakepicayune.com/2009/07/29/recent-study-touts-local-grad-rates/comment-page-1/#comment-6164 Anonymous Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:00:03 +0000 http://www.westlakepicayune.com/?p=2861#comment-6164 Missing Data - You are right; the district isn't tracking the students who leave Eanes ISD and their reasons for leaving. We transferred our child from Eanes ISD to private school. The gifted program and associated curriculum (my student was admitted early one) is a joke, the class sizes are huge, the accelerated math was cut (okay because my student needed much more than a year acceleration), and as we all know, there is a constant emphasis on fundraising. Those factors, combined with the apparent emphasis on athletics in Eanes ISD, convinced us to transfer our child to private school. It was a great decision in hindsight. Small classes, individualized instruction, emphasis on academics, and it's a "gifted" curriculum at all times because our student can now learn at the correct level in all subjects. Bottom line: Our Eanes ISD campus is rated exemplary but the school district failed to meet our gifted student's needs. Now, when we write the tuition check each year, we know it is money well-spent -- quite a contrast to the many checks in donations that we wrote to Eanes ISD when our student was enrolled in the district. We moved here for the school district (liek others, we believed the PR spin) and although we love our house and neighborhood, we join many other families who have transferred their children into private school(s). Eanes is a good choice for some children but an inadequate and (actually) awful choice for others. Missing Data – You are right; the district isn’t tracking the students who leave Eanes ISD and their reasons for leaving. We transferred our child from Eanes ISD to private school. The gifted program and associated curriculum (my student was admitted early one) is a joke, the class sizes are huge, the accelerated math was cut (okay because my student needed much more than a year acceleration), and as we all know, there is a constant emphasis on fundraising. Those factors, combined with the apparent emphasis on athletics in Eanes ISD, convinced us to transfer our child to private school. It was a great decision in hindsight. Small classes, individualized instruction, emphasis on academics, and it’s a “gifted” curriculum at all times because our student can now learn at the correct level in all subjects. Bottom line: Our Eanes ISD campus is rated exemplary but the school district failed to meet our gifted student’s needs. Now, when we write the tuition check each year, we know it is money well-spent — quite a contrast to the many checks in donations that we wrote to Eanes ISD when our student was enrolled in the district. We moved here for the school district (liek others, we believed the PR spin) and although we love our house and neighborhood, we join many other families who have transferred their children into private school(s). Eanes is a good choice for some children but an inadequate and (actually) awful choice for others.

]]> http://westlakepicayune.com/2009/07/29/recent-study-touts-local-grad-rates/comment-page-1/#comment-6142 Rex the Dog Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:05:41 +0000 http://www.westlakepicayune.com/?p=2861#comment-6142 You're kidding, right? You’re kidding, right?

]]> http://westlakepicayune.com/2009/07/29/recent-study-touts-local-grad-rates/comment-page-1/#comment-6129 missing data Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:51:47 +0000 http://www.westlakepicayune.com/?p=2861#comment-6129 Where's the data that discloses the number of students who transferred out of Eanes ISD, along with their reasons why? Where’s the data that discloses the number of students who transferred out of Eanes ISD, along with their reasons why?

]]> http://westlakepicayune.com/2009/07/29/recent-study-touts-local-grad-rates/comment-page-1/#comment-6117 Rex the Dog Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:57:57 +0000 http://www.westlakepicayune.com/?p=2861#comment-6117 Well, well, well...where are you on this one Anonymous? I'm sure you'll have something very intelligent to say as always...very, very intelligent...but for me it looks like on this one I'm the dog (Rex the Dog that is) and you're the fire hydrant...ahhhhhh...oh yeah and ruff, ruff, ruff... Well, well, well…where are you on this one Anonymous? I’m sure you’ll have something very intelligent to say as always…very, very intelligent…but for me it looks like on this one I’m the dog (Rex the Dog that is) and you’re the fire hydrant…ahhhhhh…oh yeah and ruff, ruff, ruff…

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