In the opposition paper this week, it was noted by GCS that the federal government is allowing GCS to expand the reverse sanctions for tutoring children at failing schools. Orginally if the school failed AYP's for 2 years, the district had to let them transfer to another school, in other words "opt-out" The government is allowing GCS to switch that and tutoring level 1 and 2 kids that are poor (not sure what you do if you are level one or 2 and not considered poor, I guess you are out of luck) instead of 'opting-out' to another school.
All that to say, that Northern Middle shoul not have to worry about being an opt out school for Hairston this year! I felt it was horribly wrong to use them for opt out when the principal and staff had not even formed yet for a complete school.
I still hear the numbers are ever expanding for enrollment. I know the HS is currently at around 470 (estimated 392)-- it is causing alot of problems with scheduling etc with two campuses. So much more than the middle school faced. Over 3/4 of the teachers will have to commute daily. Obviously they lose one period of teaching time for that travel time.
