44% Of City Students To Stay Remote

I'd bet money the percentage of students staying remote is greater than 44%.

Not one of my students' parents received a parent link about the survey, and many expressed surprise when I texted them the link. As far as I know, only parents who have a current email on file with the district were notified about the survey; also parents were given less than a week to respond.

But I guess we'll see come November 9th.

new haven teacher - Sorry to disappoint you, but every parent I know received multiple emails and phone calls regarding the survey. It was also distributed by my children's individual schools through morning announcements and also can be found on the district website. Nice try at undermining the hard work of the administration though.
Who would need more than a week to respond anyways?

@new haven teacher
That's interesting because I recieved several duplicate calls on both my cell and my home phone about the survey as well as multiple text messages and emails. I wonder why some parents didn't get it and some parents got spammed.

I am sure the number is higher too, @new haven teacher, but it was also sent to parents via text and phone (I received a number of phone message reminders over the course of the week). Our principal also said that surveys are still coming in, so even though the deadline is past, I think they are still accepting surveys.

The state is reporting that New Haven has 800 fewer students this year. Does anybody know why?

@Dennis the inter-district kids probably went back to their district

@NHTeacherPE - Why would they go back. No buses? Can't they log in remotely?

@DennisSerf Parents of interdistrict kids pulling them out of NHPS and putting them in their home district because NHPS went fully remote for 10 weeks...the only district in CT to start the school year fully remote...and parents wanted their kids to have in-person learning. Parents pulling their kids out of NHPS in favor of private or parochial schools because those schools fully opened in Sept. Parents pulling their kids out of NHPS to homeschool because remote learning is just not developmentally appropriate for young children. I know families in each of these situations. That's why NHPS has 800 fewer students this year.

I expect this will increase. Yesterday a positive Covid -19 case was confirmed at the Dr. Mayo school. 3 teachers are in self quarantine. Will the public be informed? Will the school be disinfected? I believe this is the 7th NHPS to confirm a positive case. The thing is right now there are no students in the building. Some teachers are teaching remotely from their classrooms. Many other districts are going remote due to the infection rate increase. Will New Haven continue to keep the health and safety of their students and staff at the forefront? I hope so.

If I had to guess it was probably for the live instruction option other districts offered. The ability to be in school. The ability to not have to worry about day care or the child staying home alone while the parent went to work.

@Dennis, most likely students went back to their districts because their families wanted them to go back to school in person.

@Dennis, I've seen you state that "800 students fewer" bit elsewhere. Can you explain your source?

If it is on the State page, a link would be helpful.

It sure sounds authoritative to quote "the state" but if none of us can actually see the information ourselves, you might be leading us down a path of assumptions based on a falsehood.

Five weeks into the school year, fewer than half of the state's public school students are learning fully in person, there are fewer students overall and roughly 3 percent remain fully disconnected.

State officials are still peeling back the data to figure out why.

"It's hard to say what is going on," said Ajit Gopalakrishnan, chief performance officer for the state Department of Education.

"We all understand this time is extremely unusual," he said, adding it is too soon to jump to conclusions.

Weekly enrollment data collected by the state for the week ending Oct. 9 showed 513,853 students across all public schools, including charter schools and special education schools.


https://www.ctinsider.com/news/thehour/article/Statewide-14-000-fewer-students-are-enrolled-and-15659298.php

@FoxonSocks, I only got the survey from friends, not through any official channel, but I am really only commenting for the opportunity to say that your handle is clever and cute!

Sorry. I copied the wrong text. The article continues and reads...

Weekly enrollment data collected by the state for the week ending Oct. 9 showed 513,853 students across all public schools, including charter schools and special education schools. That compares to 527,829 students in 2019-20. The 2.64 percent drop-off statewide is bigger than the annual enrollment slip the state has seen over the past several years.


Most districts statewide have shown declines. Bridgeport and New Haven both had 800 fewer students from one year to the next. Hartford's decline is double that. Last year, Hartford public schools had 18,880 students. The week of Oct. 5 it had 17,228, according to state figures.

Stamford was on the plus side, gaining 92 students, but Greenwich saw a decline of 235 and Norwalk decreased by 201.

"And it is not just in a couple of districts," Gopalakrishnan said. "It's across a lot of districts across the state. It's not isolated to one or two districts. We are going to be looking at that closely over the next few weeks."

@dennis

The state hasn't released weekly enrollment information before. Are they going to release all that information or are we supposed to just "trust them."

If you are worried about state funding based on enrollment, wait for the official October numbers (not the weeklies, but the reall October report). That's what controls funding.

middle: Thanks for the primer on the reports. I didn't even know they existed. I think funding is one of the issues. The other issue is how much the city is spending on schools, transportation, etc. 800 is a big number to not be accounted for.

@dennis

let's be serious: those students are accounted for. Somewhere in the main office there is a list of all the students who enrolled last year and all the sutdents who enrolled this year and some smart lady can compare those lists and figure out who transferred out. They probably even keep track of all the transfers so they can tell exactly who left.

When you say 800 students aren't accounted for, you make it sound like they were lost on a field trip or something.

What is your real concern here?

middle -

"It's hard to say what is going on," said Ajit Gopalakrishnan, chief performance officer for the state Department of Education.

As you say, the children are not missing in a literal sense. my concern is strictly with the financial implications to New Haven.