Secret Killer: School Transfers

Smashcast.org goes live tomorrow (Preview here; Brainbytes preview here). This week's post, and next week's post are going to veer away from talking directly about science and technology, but instead bring up environmental and contextual issues that impact whether smashcasters have the peace of mind to allow them to focus on their academics. This week's post, "Top High Shcool Acceptance", describes the travails of a top student who has to move to Kentucky and wants to get into a good public school. The school has its own rules about who gets in, how and when. None of these seem flexible enough to accomodate families that need to move to deal with financial hardship. When these families move, the timing isn't perfect, and rarely aligns with expected application dates. So if you don't move proactively and control your moving time to school application deadlines, sounds like there are not many options for your child ... In related news, from a recent series of articles in the LATimes - "Why Does High School Fail So Many?" (thanks Jessica): The more students transferred, the less likely they were to graduate; an ominous development in a district in which one-quarter of the students change schools annually. Of 18 students who attended three or more schools, only one graduated.