Long range plan should be to have only two middle schools, expand Cedar RIdge and either build a new school in the southeast side or expand Oak Park.

Can't afford new schools, too busy building prisons.

Orville - I usually hate what you say - maybe because it's true - like now.

Why not create a magnet middle school, just like they did with the elementary problem.

Tell me how a brick and morter buliding and a parcel of land is the cause of the poor test scores? Because the way I'm seeing this is that the same kids will go to another school and the same teachers will follow and so will the same management of said teachers will also follow. So what's going to change except that the testing group will be more diluted. Which brings me to my next question how does that solve the problem of kids making better grades if their parents don't activley get involved other than to say " We are going to transfer" . Because all you have done is put lipstick on a pig!

Does this mean if a large portion leave that the school will be closed? Or will the students at the other schools be displaced and forced to go to BMS and punished for making the grade.

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink.

The obvious solution is to take the three middle schools and make one a city wide 6th grade school, one a city wide 7th grade school, and the other a city wide eighth grade school. Yes, it will be inconvenient for parents and students but so are a lot of other things local schools across the U.S. have to do to meet the "one size fits all" mandates from the Federal Government.