Current Events > California middle school has too many white students, will now lose funding

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Sad_Face posted...

s0nicfan posted...

This is most likely a case of "not my job." I mean... who in a school administration would actually be tasked with tracking the demographics of the town and projecting out to determine if and when they would lose minority status?

You're not tracking down the demographics of the town, you're tracking down the demographics of your student population. And it's easy to do, you have all the records of your kids in file, electronically. 90% of the busywork is done, just pull up the statistics off of that. Substitute the graduating class for the maximum student class size feasible from the pool of incoming student applications, and remove students until you return the threshold for qualifying for the PHBAO grant, and then send acceptance letters after that. This is operating on the assumption that they can't discriminate which students to drop, so they'll have to randomly assign numbers or by order of application submitted, and then keep dropping a student from the max number.

I'm not saying it's hard. I'm saying it likely wasn't done because it's nobody's job to do.
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s0nicfan posted...

This is most likely a case of "not my job." I mean... who in a school administration would actually be tasked with tracking the demographics of the town and projecting out to determine if and when they would lose minority status?

well, I live in the South, specifically Little Rock, which took the federal government and the national guard to integrate lol

so basically everyone around here pays a lot of attention to this kind of thing

Sad_Face posted...

Substitute the graduating class for the maximum student class size feasible from the pool of incoming student applications, and remove students until you return the threshold for qualifying for the PHBAO grant, and then send acceptance letters after that. This is operating on the assumption that they can't discriminate which students to drop, so they'll have to randomly assign numbers or by order of application submitted, and then keep dropping a student from the max number.

idk how it works, I think it is a little harder than that, but it's definitely feasible in a school district like L.A. for someone to keep track of this even if it's at the district level and not the school level

I can see how it would slip through the cracks though
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Fair, next.
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