Another Butt-Kicking For SUSD: We often HATE Being Right SPRING 2014 - Dr. Peterson Commissions Expensive Survey: Conclusion? SUSD will lose 2% of enrollment per year and 2,000 students over 10 years. ROSS Conclusion Then: What a Waste of Money. We will lose 2,000 students in less than half that time and at least 1,000 next year. Who Was Right? Yeah - we wasted another boat load of money on that insane study and report, didnt we. We lost 1,000 students this year. Best news for SUSD - Despite huge losses at Navajo, Tonalea, Kiva and Pueblo, the Southern and Central Scottsdale Schools only lost 2.9% of Enrollment with Ingleside, Coronado, Cocopah and Arcadia posting small gains. It gets REALLY BAD from there. EVERY Northern School lost enrollment. Do we blame the new Charters? Only if northern parents are driving a long way to get to them. WHICH SCHOOLS TOOK THE WORST BEATING? Does anyone really need to be told? The K-5s and K-8s got hit HARD. Is this a BIG Surprise to anyone other than Dr. Peterson and Bonnie Sneed? Parents really do care deeply if you cut our kids School Weeks. It was a stupid plan when you developed it. It was absolutely certain to almost all who watched that you were slicing the arteries of our schools. You could have cut buses. You could have cut so many other things but you chose to send a message to voters. Well - 2,000 parents and voters and 1,000 students sent a very loud message back - your idea stinks. Navajo lost 82 students and 18% of enrollment. It now must be closed unless were going to foolishly carry a ghost school. Pueblo lost 76 students. Copper Ridge lost 75 - the Biggest and Most Beautiful of our K-5 and Middle Schools isnt selling to parents. Copper Ridge is now headed below 50% utilization. If SB 1100 had passed, youd have been ordered to lease it to a Charter - and maybe you ought to consider that quickly before it turns in to a warehouse. Anasazi lost 72 Tonalea lost 67 - parents clearly didnt like the choice of closing their school making the next decisions for SUSD even tougher. At 16.4% lost, it is second in percentage decline behind Navajo. THE TEN SCHOOLS in the SUSD NETWORK LOSING THE WORST % OF STUDENTS ARE ALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. Is this sinking in at 44th Street? You chose to cut K-5 and Specials. Your customer base walked out on you - and a lot more are getting ready to do the same. DEAR SUSD: IF YOU WANT TO SAVE THE OVERRIDE YOU HAVE ONLY ONE CHANCE TO MAKE UP FOR THE 2,000 PARENTS OF THE 1,000 STUDENTS WHO LEFT THIS YEAR AND WONT VOTE YES. IMMEDIATELY announce that you realize you made a seriously bad mistake. IMMEDIATELY announce that you have read the enrollment data and you get it. In the next 30 days announce your plan to strip overhead, consolidate, upgrade education, and eradicate Administration costs. PS - for those who dont already have this math sorted out. IF we pass the Override, which is now highly questionable, we have already flushed HALF of the OVERRIDE MONEY DOWN THE DRAIN. 1,000 lost students will cost over $7,000,000. The Override only added $15,000,000. We are NOT getting $15 Million of new money - we are only getting $7,000,000 due to 1,000 lost students. Will an Override now reduce classes, add 2% to payroll for Teachers, and restore Specials? Hell no - we lost half of our lunch money already. We dont get desert this year. We get chicken soup again.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:44:23 +0000
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