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I looked up the STAR results for this school, it does well but not nearly as well as some other schools in the area.
Some of the material in the article looks like it may have been cut-and-pasted from the LA times article.
Richmondian ( talk) 19:51, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
I am seeing different results for STAR (published by the state) and the school's SARC report (published by the school). Not sure how that can be, perhaps I am missing something. Richmondian ( talk) 23:56, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
The numbers of students are also weird, according to the LA times there should be something like 40 kids in 8th grade but the STAR results show only 13. Could be the numbers come from different years. Richmondian ( talk) 16:20, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
ok, callin it quits on this. the numbers are very strange. the schools SARC looks inline with the media repots but the STAR reports do not. part of it is the SARC is averaging all years, STAR breaks it out by year, but doesn't explain the low number of 8th-grade test-takers. if anyone familiar with the school reads this an explanation would be helpful. Richmondian ( talk) 16:42, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
The article is very heavy on Chavis quotes. He appears very outspoken but the quotes as is dominate the article, which is missing a lot of the key points about the school (uniforms, academic philosophy, etc.). I don't know if anyone is still working on this, hopefully someone is, though there are no computers at the school so I guess the students aren't editing often. Richmondian ( talk) 23:31, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
The mentions of Chavis need to be trimmed severely. At present it's hard to see if the article is about the school or about Chavis. Kevin ( talk) 05:20, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
The "Chavis controversies" section is the bit I have the most problems with. Kevin ( talk) 05:50, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
fellow wikipedians, as i told the first editor that placed citation needed tags all over the articles, the vast majority of the content comes from the LA times reference.
please stop placing citation needed all over the place, if you want a citation either google or just go to the LA times reference where you will probably find the information. this is a group effort, anyone can go put citation needed all over the place but that does little to help the article.
my understanding is that it is OK to just have a "references" section without inline citations, which i will switch to if people insist on putting citation needed all over the place.
Richmondian ( talk) 23:42, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
Another fishy thing, in both 04-05 and 05-06 AIPCS reported that exactly 70% of their students scored proficient or better in all four subject areas reported: Math, Language, Science, and History. That is very unlikely. The report is probably incorrect (intentionally or not)
Richmondian ( talk) 18:08, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
This is from the LA times [1]
Some of the schools' critics contend that high-scoring Asian Americans are driving the test scores, but blacks and Latinos do roughly as well -- in fact, better on some tests. That makes American Indian a rarity in American education, defying the axiom that poor black and Latino children will lag behind others in school.
Here's the line in the article that had the citation which was removed as unsourced:
However, the school's Asian, African-American, and Latino students perform similarly on standardized tests.
This is AFTER I put the citation on there! I see the editor that removed this later put it back in, but, come on, at least follow the citation before removing.
As for the part about the feeder school, Lincoln Elementary, it appeared on the feeder schools article, but after following the reference there I don't see any info about where kids go, so it isn't sourced. I also googled it just now and can't find a good source for it, all I see is a student saying that he/she went from one school to another. So I've removed it from the other article too.
It is, by wiki law, removable, though I think its probably correct info. The asian kids are coming from somewhere, Lincoln is predominantly Asian, located literally a block from AIPCS II, and Lincoln was in the top 2 schools in the state in '06 [2]
This has been a fun exercise, I've found more tantalizing info about the school, though it is only in comments at this point. They say[ http://perimeterprimate.blogspot.com/2009/05/dear-mr-finn.html ]:
Response from Chavis has been that Asians started attending when they saw test scores were high, etc. LA times journalist knew of some of the claims but thought the school was remarkable anyway, since it outperforms nearly ALL other schools.
Richmondian ( talk) 16:43, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
This was added to article -- former students, it is OK to put this in if it is published somewhere, for example in a student newspaper, but it can't go into the article until it appears somewhere else first. If the school is that bad try to talk to journalists about it, you can often email them. Someone might like to do an expose with your input. Also if you leave contact info (an email address, etc) it would make it easier to write stories like this.
'Here, you will find student's inputs that goes, or have went to this school.'
There is also another rumored way on how they pick their students, they handpick the students who received high CST test scores, and who has also been automatically been applied for the GATE program
AIPCS, is a terrible school. That is all.
Seriously, it's a terrible school. You are stuck in a plain room with a teacher yapping. Getting a detention is very easy, one little accidental incident causes you to receive a detention. You are also stuck with 1 teacher for 6th grade to 8th grade, unless they leave or get fired. This year caused a lot of changes into AIPCSII, a former teacher, Seth Burns, changed a lot of the school policies and other, fired 2 teachers, David Thaggard (2+ years), and Lily. Tam (1 year), they are removed for "bad teaching", also, Shannon Bennett, has been moved from the first campus onto the AIPCSII campus. During the Summer School period, she tells you to do Wallsits, which are very painful, tells you to do about 10 to 20 minutes of them, but she changed from Wallsits, into a so called "Babychair" where you sit on a very small chair, and you feet cannot pass a specific amount of squares.
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I looked up the STAR results for this school, it does well but not nearly as well as some other schools in the area.
Some of the material in the article looks like it may have been cut-and-pasted from the LA times article.
Richmondian ( talk) 19:51, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
I am seeing different results for STAR (published by the state) and the school's SARC report (published by the school). Not sure how that can be, perhaps I am missing something. Richmondian ( talk) 23:56, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
The numbers of students are also weird, according to the LA times there should be something like 40 kids in 8th grade but the STAR results show only 13. Could be the numbers come from different years. Richmondian ( talk) 16:20, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
ok, callin it quits on this. the numbers are very strange. the schools SARC looks inline with the media repots but the STAR reports do not. part of it is the SARC is averaging all years, STAR breaks it out by year, but doesn't explain the low number of 8th-grade test-takers. if anyone familiar with the school reads this an explanation would be helpful. Richmondian ( talk) 16:42, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
The article is very heavy on Chavis quotes. He appears very outspoken but the quotes as is dominate the article, which is missing a lot of the key points about the school (uniforms, academic philosophy, etc.). I don't know if anyone is still working on this, hopefully someone is, though there are no computers at the school so I guess the students aren't editing often. Richmondian ( talk) 23:31, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
The mentions of Chavis need to be trimmed severely. At present it's hard to see if the article is about the school or about Chavis. Kevin ( talk) 05:20, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
The "Chavis controversies" section is the bit I have the most problems with. Kevin ( talk) 05:50, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
fellow wikipedians, as i told the first editor that placed citation needed tags all over the articles, the vast majority of the content comes from the LA times reference.
please stop placing citation needed all over the place, if you want a citation either google or just go to the LA times reference where you will probably find the information. this is a group effort, anyone can go put citation needed all over the place but that does little to help the article.
my understanding is that it is OK to just have a "references" section without inline citations, which i will switch to if people insist on putting citation needed all over the place.
Richmondian ( talk) 23:42, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
Another fishy thing, in both 04-05 and 05-06 AIPCS reported that exactly 70% of their students scored proficient or better in all four subject areas reported: Math, Language, Science, and History. That is very unlikely. The report is probably incorrect (intentionally or not)
Richmondian ( talk) 18:08, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
This is from the LA times [1]
Some of the schools' critics contend that high-scoring Asian Americans are driving the test scores, but blacks and Latinos do roughly as well -- in fact, better on some tests. That makes American Indian a rarity in American education, defying the axiom that poor black and Latino children will lag behind others in school.
Here's the line in the article that had the citation which was removed as unsourced:
However, the school's Asian, African-American, and Latino students perform similarly on standardized tests.
This is AFTER I put the citation on there! I see the editor that removed this later put it back in, but, come on, at least follow the citation before removing.
As for the part about the feeder school, Lincoln Elementary, it appeared on the feeder schools article, but after following the reference there I don't see any info about where kids go, so it isn't sourced. I also googled it just now and can't find a good source for it, all I see is a student saying that he/she went from one school to another. So I've removed it from the other article too.
It is, by wiki law, removable, though I think its probably correct info. The asian kids are coming from somewhere, Lincoln is predominantly Asian, located literally a block from AIPCS II, and Lincoln was in the top 2 schools in the state in '06 [2]
This has been a fun exercise, I've found more tantalizing info about the school, though it is only in comments at this point. They say[ http://perimeterprimate.blogspot.com/2009/05/dear-mr-finn.html ]:
Response from Chavis has been that Asians started attending when they saw test scores were high, etc. LA times journalist knew of some of the claims but thought the school was remarkable anyway, since it outperforms nearly ALL other schools.
Richmondian ( talk) 16:43, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
This was added to article -- former students, it is OK to put this in if it is published somewhere, for example in a student newspaper, but it can't go into the article until it appears somewhere else first. If the school is that bad try to talk to journalists about it, you can often email them. Someone might like to do an expose with your input. Also if you leave contact info (an email address, etc) it would make it easier to write stories like this.
'Here, you will find student's inputs that goes, or have went to this school.'
There is also another rumored way on how they pick their students, they handpick the students who received high CST test scores, and who has also been automatically been applied for the GATE program
AIPCS, is a terrible school. That is all.
Seriously, it's a terrible school. You are stuck in a plain room with a teacher yapping. Getting a detention is very easy, one little accidental incident causes you to receive a detention. You are also stuck with 1 teacher for 6th grade to 8th grade, unless they leave or get fired. This year caused a lot of changes into AIPCSII, a former teacher, Seth Burns, changed a lot of the school policies and other, fired 2 teachers, David Thaggard (2+ years), and Lily. Tam (1 year), they are removed for "bad teaching", also, Shannon Bennett, has been moved from the first campus onto the AIPCSII campus. During the Summer School period, she tells you to do Wallsits, which are very painful, tells you to do about 10 to 20 minutes of them, but she changed from Wallsits, into a so called "Babychair" where you sit on a very small chair, and you feet cannot pass a specific amount of squares.
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