How can you say this without knowing which community this is?
Is it “Rick knows all” here?
Iowa school district shuttering...
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Is it “Rick knows all” here?
What did he say that was wrong? The parents have the final say in this. Hell, with the size of the school, the board probably is all of the parents.
Based on 2024 BEDS, Whiting, Diagonal and South Page are the only 'Districts' smaller than O-M. The rest appear to be private/academies that were probably started after the voucher deal. A couple of them are probably just homeschoolers that formed an academy to get the gov't money, which, I'm not getting into that discussion.
| 354 | Morning Star Academy, Bettendorf | 36 |
| 355 | St. Mary's, Remsen | 36 |
| 356 | Valley Lutheran, Cedar Falls | 36 |
| 357 | Cedar Valley Christian | 35 |
| 358 | Hamburg Charter | 35 |
| 359 | Iowa School for the Deaf | 30 |
| 360 | Orient-Macksburg | 29 |
| 361 | Whiting | 28 |
| 362 | Diagonal | 18 |
| 363 | North Iowa Christian School | 15 |
| 364 | Scattergood Friends | 14 |
| 365 | South Page, College Springs | 14 |
| 366 | Clear Lake Classical | 13 |
| 367 | Ottumwa Christian School | 13 |
| 368 | Unity Ridge Lutheran School | 4 |
| 369 | New City Classical Academy | 3 |
| 370 | Strong Roots | 2 |
This is probably better for the kids in the district. They can go to the district closer to their home rather than driving three towns over to go to school. Orient kids can go to Nodaway Valley or Creston and be 15 minutes from school, Macksburg kids can go to Winterset and also be 15 minutes from school. Consolidation would mean some of these kids would be 30+ minutes from school.
If they had merged, you would probably be complaining how the poor kids have to spend so much time on the bus every day. This is a good thing for these kids, unless they really loved being a big fish in a small pond.
Rural areas have been in decline for decades. High tide was the 40s. Enrollment stayed up from boomer births. Decline is quickening regardless. Its demographics.
Apparently you've never driven around your state and noticed all the old, abandoned "rural" school buildings in towns that haven't had a school to themselves in over 60 years
Well, that really depends.
I have always subscribed to the belief when people show you who they really are believe them.
In SE Iowa there are many private schools. NOTRE dame, Rrgina, IMS, West Point....could go on and on. Harmony Public closed quute awhile ago. It was time.
Jeeeebus Northern…. What the phuque is a “rogue teacher”?
Might it be a reacher who has critical thinking skills? Might it be a teacher who believes in teaching their students to think critically? Or is it a Catholic or Hew who teaches in a public school system?
No, but I think private school kids have always found a way. I have a lot of friends who went to IC Regina, and I have friends who send their kids there now. They found a way to make tuition either by themselves, with help from family members, or via their parish. That is their choice.
There is ZERO accounting going on with what these schools are charging, and how much the money is going up with the influx of public money. It's laughable to me that for being so cost conscious. our Republican leaders now don't give a fig about monitoring the expenditure of state funds, and sure as F**K don't want anyone finding out where the money is going and how much schools are bumping up tuitiion.
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I urge you to start a thread every single time a new school is privately funded in Iowa. Bonus points for it being built in rural Iowa, or an underserved area.
One with a personal agenda that has nothing to do with providing students a quality education.
I have yet to encounter one, but I know they exist. Just as I know racist cops exist because I have met a couple.
Yeah, you just erroneously generalized that sentiment to “some.”
Rest assured, you’re still the idiot in this thread. As usual.
Coincidently, I see where DSM Christian Achool announced plans to build a new campus about a mile from there present campus in a couple of years….about the same time Kim’s vouchers become eligible fir all comers…no longer “income based”….Now tell me about welfare for the rich. Or is this just “coincidence”?
a “rogue teacher” isn’t going to last long I wouldn’t think. But there are unhappy bastards in all phases of life I suppose.
Yeah, I said "some schools". Which means it comes from the top, not rogue teachers. Reading must be hard for you.
People in these small towns sure are a hoot. Unable and unwilling to pay for their own school, let’s sky scream about the lack of funding to save schools in towns with no economic draw.
Very few if any of the families that send their children to DSM Christian are "rich" the majority are at poverty level.
Orient-Macksburg could be first Iowa school district to shutter since 2015
Orient-Macksburg School District could be the first Iowa school district since Corwith-Wesley in 2015 to dissolve and close its doors permanently.
iowastartingline.com
While the district’s certified enrollment number is 163.9 students for the 2023-24 school year, 86.9 students have open enrolled out of the district and those state supplemental aid dollars follow the students to their new district. Thirty-three students have open enrolled into Oreint-Macksburg and only two students from the district are enrolled in Iowa’s new private school tuition voucher program.
Seems like some more digging may be needed if blame is to be attributed to private school money.
I have no idea about DSM Christian School. I’m not sure if you were directing that to me or not.
As to your other comments, it depends on the school district, parents, and school board. Like I said, I have never encountered a teacher promoting LGBTQ issues in a classroom or rhetoric that white people are still oppressing persons of color. For the handful of teachers across America who do promote those things, they better be in a sympathetic school district with like-minded parents.
Well, in my defense, it’s often difficult to discern what the hell you are saying with all the unintelligible trash you like to post.
Other than obligatory DEI trainings, I doubt too many school districts or administrators or pushing the agenda you think they are. The greater point is this is a boogeyman you have created inside your head, most likely due to anecdotal evidence pushed by far right-winged media.
You have no defense.
You claim to be a teacher yet in recent days you've posted some pretty nasty stuff on this board. This troubles me.
Methinks that many (here) equate recognition of alt lifestyles as capitualization to “the new world order”….and this just is not the case. Ragnar, I think you are correct that some here have created a “boogeyman” to help them more effectively cope with this challenge to their persona; belief system. Their attack on these alternate lifestyles and their use of “religion” to argue their case is just another false flag.
You people on the left haven't been correct on anything in 75 years so please don't try and kid yourself now.
