Hey, I have an idea!
TEACH BETTER.
I think that would fix things right up.
More than 97% non-white. How can those students possibly learn if there isn't a white student to sit next to them? /illustrating absurdity
What will the left do if it ever comes to pass that race can no longer be used as a proxy for class.
Truly tragic.
The onset of puberty has alot to do with this exodus.
/leftist
It’s OK Oakland - just keep doing what your doing, and everything will work out just fine (/sarc)
Lets look at the bright side: pensions and total # of teachers probably remain steady, and a 30-1 student-teacher ratio can flip, to become 1-30.
They have this backwards, the low scores caused the parents of the bright students to pull them out and give them a chance at a real education. If they would actually teach the subjects needed in the real world instead of how to worship homos they wouldn't be losing students.
WAAAAAAA!
All the kids who really want to keep learning and doing well are leaving to go to schools to get into an environment where they can!
WAAAAAAA!
And the public schools are stuck with the rest: those who haven’t given their education much thought; and those who have, but don’t really care.
WAAAAAAA!
Now the public intermediate schools might have to change their entire top-down, statist-dictated campus gulag environment to try and lure back the achievers.
WAAAAAAA!
They’re leaving to escape the undisciplined kids who disrupt the classes and can’t be controlled by the teachers, so that they can continue with their education.
This is a good trend. As students leave the public schools for private schools, the power of the corrupt unions decreases. At least these parents care enough to get their kids out of these failing and unsafe schools. The Leftist education monopoly and the disintegration of of the family are the main reasons that our nation is failing to give children a good eduction.
That said, all are mixed together. So the smart ones learn despite the school. The capable ones get by but learn very little. The rest may graduate, but are lacking the most basic elements of education.
Parents with above-average children should, in my opinion, get them out of public schools. Find an alternative. Those who want their average children to excel should do the same.
The public schools are, by and large, with exceptions duly noted, an intellectual desert. They are not getting any better. And even the best teachers are so busy taking care of the incapable and unwilling that they have no time for the better students.
Step 1: Lose the entitlement mentality.
My sister went to 7th grade at a school in El Cerrito back in the 70s, and the black-on-white persecution was bad back then. I’m sure it’s worse now.
Of course, this would have nothing to do with people leaving the schools.
/sarc
Considering how well Jerry Brown did destroying Oakland and its school system, one can’t begin to imagine how well he’ll do with the entire state of California. The nightmare is right on the horizon. Future article will be entitled “Brain drain from California School Districts,” and the “rest of California.”
Those that can flee liberalism . . schools, neighborhoods, cities, shopping areas, states, regions. Liberalism is inherently a deal killer.
“How can they improve the middle schools’ test scores when the brightest students leave?”
Maybe they should actually HELP the kids who DO need it.