The Wauwatosa School Board needs a math lesson
There are approximately 1,400 students in Longfellow & Whitman
There are 837 student in Longfellow (60%) and 563 in Whitman (40%)
The School Board made a decision to stop offering 2 Eight Grade Algebra
classes in the middle school. Longfellow will only now offer 3 and Whitman 1.
This blog is not about how short sided the policy is of reducing Eight Grade Algebra
Classes. How this will have a detrimental impact on future standardized test scores or why it is another way the district is dumbing down the educational opportunities in Tosa.
No, this blog is about fairness.
If 40% of the middle school students in Tosa attend Whitman, why do they only get
25% of the available seats for Eight Grade Algebra?
I welcome any School Board member or Dr. Ertl to explain the Math.
This doesn’t seem fair to me.
