A BIT TOO GRANULAR
I just think these stats are funny:
The district’s homeschool program as 2.4 kindergartners; 3 first graders; 1.2 second graders; 5.4 third graders; 2.4 fourth graders; and 3.6 fifth graders for a total of 18.
4 Responses to “A BIT TOO GRANULAR”
 Comment by Jema October 29th, 2004 at 10:03 pm |
That is funny. The only partial children are in the homeschool stats. |
 Comment by Rikki October 30th, 2004 at 1:09 am |
oh those poor little partial children. |
 Comment by maryalice October 30th, 2004 at 10:30 am |
I agree that the numbers look funny, but from a stats pov, they are probably calculated on something like “Average Daily Membership” (ADM in educrat-eze). So a child who was pulled out of public school to be homeschooled for part of the year was as a 0.4 or whatever it rounded out to be. The public school would have the counter part of 0.6. The reporting of numbers always seems to baffle those journalism majors though. I might have given a head count “at that time” to avoid the ridiculous looking numbers. |
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Comment by Daryl Cobranchi October 30th, 2004 at 10:37 am |
There’s another possibility- some school districts allow partial enrollment for homeschoolers. The schools get partial credit for their headcount. So, a homeschooler taking two classes might by 0.25 of a student. |