Going Out On a (Not So) High Note

Well...the 2009-10 school year is in the books. Graduation is over, and the summer parties have begun. What many may have missed--and certainly not something you'll ever see discussed on the district website or at a school board meeting--was a teensy little article in the State Journal this week.

Several Madison schools fail to meet No Child Left Behind standards.
DeForest, Middleton and Sun Prairie high schools also missed one or more testing benchmarks.

Statewide, 145 schools and four districts, including Madison, missed one or more adequate yearly progress targets. Under the law [like it or hate it], schools and districts that failed to meet the same progress targets for two or more years are identified as needing improvement.

Read the Journal article
See the data from the DPI website

DIS-Connectedness?

So...we were a bit surprised to see this meeting notice:

L E G A L N O T I C E

Sun Prairie Area School District

Sun Prairie, WI 53590

Agenda for

Thursday, June 10, 2010

SOAR GRADUATION, 11:30 a.m. at Prairie Phoenix Academy, 160 South St., Sun Prairie.

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So....

1. The SOAR kids no longer get to "graduate" with their classmates (on Friday evening)?

2. Who attends a graduation in the middle of the day?

While it's possible the kids wanted to separate themselves from the rest of their flock, we wonder if that is the case. Or are we just making these kids further "dis" connected?

Why are the Police at the High School?

Ever since we posted the numbers of police calls to the Sun Prairie High School, people commented things like, "A lot of those calls are just for lock-outs or other minor things."

Good point. Which is why we requested a breakdown of information on the types of calls for service being made. That data was made available for 2009 to-date. Because it was a rather lengthy, convoluted lists, we took the liberty of trying to "lump" those calls that appear to be of a similar nature.

You be the judge. Do we have a problem, Houston?