Tell me it isn't true..

Tell me it isn't true that WHS has 400+ students who live outside of the district lines. I would hate to lose property value and change schools AGAIN for students who should go to school somewhere else. I can understand filling the new middle school with new boundaries, but why change the high school boundaries now and then change them with the new high school.

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Special Permission
Submitted by justhafax on Thu, 10/19/2006 - 9:25pm.

WWHS has about 100 kids there on special permission. Most of them are children of employees who have the right by state law to attend where their parents work. There are 37 kids who live in the Whitewater district but attend another high school on special permission. That's barely over 60. That's a long, long way from 400+. 400+ would be about a third of the total population.

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Justthamathfax
Submitted by OldSchoolFootball on Thu, 10/19/2006 - 9:40pm.

I have no idea where the 400 number came from but....it just appeared but assuming WWHS has 100 kids on 'special permission' as you said and assuming that it's because they work there.... (that's nearly the entire faculty) as you said, you go on to say that there are 37 students who live in the district but attend other schools and then ....this is the part where you lost me - you subtract the 37 from the 100 on special permission to arrive at 60 (63 actually). WWHS would still have the 100 on special permisson so why did you subtract 37? Also, although you are right about the 400 being a random number, it would actually be less than one fourth of the school since the school has over 1700 students. Regardless, I know of at least one, number 5 on the varsity football team (I will not call him out by name - he is a kid - it's CW Campbell, Sam Sweat and John Decotis that should answer for this and the others like it at WWHS)who is out of district and out of county (over 7k per year baby) whos parents do NOT work for the county or WWHS. Of course - no one is doing anything about it - it's just tax payer money Eye-wink

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37
Submitted by justhafax on Thu, 10/19/2006 - 9:49pm.

I just figured those 37 could be there contributing to the overcrowding but weren't so they should come off the bigger number. I didn't say all 100 are employee's kids. No matter who you count and who you don't 400+ is more than a little inflated, don't you think, baby?

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Where did 400 come from
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Submitted by bad_ptc on Thu, 10/19/2006 - 9:54pm.

Who came up with this number?

Please show it to me.


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b7777's blog - he came up with it from......
Submitted by OldSchoolFootball on Thu, 10/19/2006 - 9:57pm.

Lord only knows!!! Maybe he is thinking those who will be moved are somehow out of district?? b7777, are you there???

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Property value?
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Submitted by mudcat on Thu, 10/19/2006 - 8:21pm.

What proof do you have that living in one school district adds or subtracts value from your house? The word "proof" is used for a reason, specifically to point out that proof is evidence rather than a feeling by the offended party.

Show me houses that have been devalued because of school redistricting. Give me an address and comparable sales before and after the redistricting. Don't bother adjusting for inflation - I can handle it.

Proof, dude, not feelings.

meow


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You may wish to start with this dudette.
Submitted by OldSchoolFootball on Thu, 10/19/2006 - 8:42pm.

You may wish to start with http://www.assessor.com/faq.htm and move forward from there. Property assesment is complex but the major factors are quite simple.

Many articles also show that test scores (which vary from school to school) can also impact property values such as this one:(http://www.svcn.com/archives/saratoganews/02.14.01/real-scores-0107.html)

Additionally, please examine this abstract from a research study that you can find here:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0033-5533(199905)114%3A2%3C577%3ADBSMPV%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3

The evaluation of numerous school reforms requires an understanding of the value of better schools. Given the difficulty of calculating the relationship between school quality and student outcomes, I turn to another method and use house prices to infer the value parents place on school quality. I look within school districts at houses located on attendance district boundaries; houses then differ only by the elementary school the child attends. I thereby effectively remove the variation in neighborhoods, taxes, and school spending. I find that parents are willing to pay 2.5 percent more for a 5 percent increase in test scores. This finding is robust to a number of sensitivity checks.

There are of course hundereds of other sites and studies but I thought three to get you started might actually make you look for yourself if you were truly interseted.

Ruff Ruff

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WHS has 400 out of district students?
Submitted by wocdam on Thu, 10/19/2006 - 2:23pm.

Where'd you get that information, B777vestman? If that's the case, then certainly there is enough room for Lakemont and Lakeside high schoolers to continue at Whitewater . . .

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I read...
Submitted by OldSchoolFootball on Thu, 10/19/2006 - 9:58pm.

Wayyyyyyyy tooo much about the school system and I have never seen this 400 number.

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