[Durham INC] Proposal for All-Male Academy in Durham NC

[Pat Carstensen]

Here is the presentation:http://www.dpsnc.net/schools/single-gender-academy-proposal/powerpoint-presentations/april-17-2013-single-gender-academy-presentation-for-dps-school-board
If you google Durham all male academy, you'll see more materials.
My own sense is that some boys would do better in an all-male environment, and some boys would just see twice as many peers to fight with.  Assuming that it would be a magnet school, it would help boys whose parents who will apply and probably move a population from "struggling" to "succeeding";  the boys who need it the worst would be even more concentrated in the classes that aren't working for them now.
Regards, pat

From: tom-miller1 at nc.rr.com
To: pats1717 at hotmail.com; inc-list at rtpnet.org
Subject: RE: [Durham INC] Proposal for Black Academy in Durham NC
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:57:32 -0400

I agree, but I want to know more about the all-male academy From: inc-list-bounces at rtpnet.org [mailto:inc-list-bounces at rtpnet.org] On Behalf Of Pat Carstensen
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 10:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [Durham INC] Proposal for Black Academy in Durham NC Look, the school board has said that the problem is that the resources that follow the kids don't match the needs the kids have.  The obvious solution is to work on getting the formula for state funding so the funding matches the needs.  As it is:1) Charter schools siphon off more than their share of kids that are cheaper to teach2) Charter schools politely say, "We can't meet your needs" for students that are really expensive to teach (e.g. the special needs child that gets a one-on-one adult to sit next to them all day long and thus costs 10 times the average student to keep in school).3) We're just hiding the cost of counsellors, lower class sizes, and other extras for some of the students who would go to the proposed academy.  Wherever they are, the resources don't match their needs.4) It makes it harder and harder to keep the kids who are cheaper to teach in the public schools because the extra cost for that one-on-one come out of the resource allocated to them.  What is the average size of an AP class in DPS?  This is what you call a dangerously distorted market. Regards, pat    		 	   		  
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