The Homeland Security exodus
I got updated figures today on the departures from Homeland Security Academy.
Total number of underclassmen who left for other schools: 278
Total number of freshmen remaining: 68
Total number of sophomores remaining: 31
Total number of juniors remaining: 12
Total number of seniors remaining: 117
Total number of staff recommended for transfer: 14
Total number of staff slated to stay: 34
Keep reading to see where the students went.
School name, followed by the number of Homeland students it received.
Institute of Business and Entrepreneurship High: 33
Southside Academy High: 8
Maryland Academy of Technology and Health Sciences: 2
Edmondson-Westside: 24
Mergenthaler: 21
Paul Laurence Dunbar: 19
Digital Harbor: 23
W.E.B. DuBois: 4
National Academy Foundation: 15
New Era Academy High: 5
Academy for College and Career Exploration: 11
Baltimore Talent Development: 17
Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts: 6
Coppin Academy: 15
Renaissance Academy: 12
Frederick Douglass: 20
Carver: 21
Masonville Cove Community Academy: 1
Friendship Academy of Science & Technology: 2
Friendship Academy of Engineering & Technology: 1
The Reach! School: 2
*Excel Academy @ Francis M. Wood High: 9
*Baltimore Civitas School: 4
*Patterson: 1
*Vivien T. Thomas Medical Arts Academy: 1
*Laurence G. Paquin Middle/High: 1
*Schools not initially slated to receive Homeland Security students.
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Comments
Let's just say that the fraction of human beings left at HSHS are the allegorical fraction of human beings that must attend schools that haven't had the blessings of the reform efforts detailed in the recent hagiography of the "CEO."
And then let's say that the fraction of human beings left in bad, un-reformed schools is the same allegorical fraction that must attend Baltimore City schools, tout court---which by an unspoken rule are aparthied schools and by most measures fundamentally, essentially different from other district's schools.
And lets say that you've already forgotten about the "remainder" of kids at HSHS.
And lets say public officials responsible for said school have officially given word to flee from said school.
And let's say that in America we are willing to abandon a certain allegorical fraction of our fellow man.
And we have elaborate defenses of that.
Particularly if you don't live in west baltimore near HSHS or send your kids there.
Posted by: bmore | February 12, 2009 10:00 PM
Maybe I'm not completely understanding who is being counted in the 34 staff who are remaining, but it looks like this would give a teacher-to-student ratio of 1:6.7 since it looks like there are only 228 students left in the school. Do they keep a whole team of teachers (eng, math, sci, ss, for lang) for just 12 juniors? Or does the last English teachers standing have to teach 9-12 grade English. I hope someone really thought this through in terms of the implications for those "left behind"?
Posted by: Michelle | February 12, 2009 10:29 PM