Michael Alves, whose software is being used to help implement the new Wake County student assignment plan, was in attendance at today's school board work session discussion.
Alves, who was sitting in the audience and said he was in town visiting familiy, later spoke with reporters. While acknowledging there have some issues, Alves said the implementation of the plan has gone well in Wake.
Alves said people need to differentiate complaints about not getting into one of their top choices with the way the plan was managed and implemented.
Alves said the plan has accomplished the goal of providing stability to families. He said critics have forgotten how much reassignment was an issue in the past.
Comments
One question for Mr. Alves
Tue, 06/05/2012 - 16:14 — ScoreOneWhat family do you have in town? His "local" connections were never discussed before. Just curious.
I was wondering about this
Tue, 06/05/2012 - 16:18 — jenmanI was wondering about this as well. Never heard it before either.
He was visting his
Tue, 06/05/2012 - 16:18 — KeungHui (author)He was visting his granddaughter.
If she's of school age, what
Tue, 06/05/2012 - 20:11 — ruthlissIf she's of school age, what choice did she get? Is she in private school?
I'm very curious about this
Tue, 06/05/2012 - 20:28 — jenmanI'm very curious about this too.
But Michael
Tue, 06/05/2012 - 16:09 — FSandYOUAll we hear about are the
H O L E S.
Since you're in town, maybe you could grab a shovel and help us fill those holes?
Or we could just put a few planks over them and be done with it.
stability
Tue, 06/05/2012 - 15:42 — turnerk1I feel that the plan the public was sold was a choice plan, and what we got was a stability plan with a bit of choice for kindergarten students, and real downsides for people trying to enter the system after kindergarten.
The critics were never
Tue, 06/05/2012 - 15:36 — DrActualFactualThe critics were never affected by the reassignments of the past, therefore--they don't care about those students. They just want it their way 24-7 with no changes, ever.
That's a pretty broad brush
Wed, 06/06/2012 - 08:45 — tropicalgirlThat's a pretty broad brush you're using. Maybe it is true of a lot of the GSIW folks but I live in the MYR area of the county and was affected by reassignments and also fared less than well under the new plan. It's possible to have been negatively affected by both. And to not like some aspects of the choice plan without having a political ax to grind.
I was responding in
Wed, 06/06/2012 - 12:54 — DrActualFactualI was responding in particular to the last sentence in the post above made by Mr. Alves (who doesn't reside in Wake) that critics have forgotten about past reassignments. (The most vocal critics were GSIW and Rev. Barber groups whom I think Mr. Alves was likely referring to.) My node has been reassigned this time too--equally reassigned but this time at least it is proximate. You are right it is possible to be negatively or positively affected by either plan, and there are aspects of both plans that are undesireable. I don't know that it is possible for all Wake districts to reach a happy medium with the plan design because some of the districts have distinctly different issues. In the end, parents want a well-designed plan that meets the educational needs of students for proximity, stability, feeder pattern or calendar continuity depending upon the preference of the parent, etc. The current board majority