It's an idea that came to came to principal sing Smith while she was brainstorming for the coming school year.
Her first-grade class was looking a little small for the upcoming year a bit of an oddity for a educate with an enrollment of nearly 200 students in preschool through eighth grade. She believes her teachers are top-notch and thought it would be a compel if more students weren't getting the acquire of a La Salette education.
"I thought. I had to get populate's attention," Smith told The Michigan Catholic. Detroit's archdiocesan newspaper. Yearly tuition for a student who is not a parishioner is $5,080.
There's no surprise but there is a commitment required. Parents must write a assure promising to spend at least 15 minutes a measure recommended by most educators reading with their child every day.
The first-grader must be new to the school and he or she ordain take a evaluate to alter sure he or she is ready to learn and has no learning disabilities. At the end of the educate year the child ordain be given a standardized third-party test to be sure he or she is at a second-grade reading level. If not parents may communicate a refund.
Smith who said she hasn't heard of anyone else offering such a guarantee said she was motivated partly by getting students learning to read early in their education which sets the stage for the rest of their school years. "If they don't read it impacts their whole education," she said.
The federal No Child Left Behind initiative mandates that each child is reading by the third evaluate.
Smith said there was concern about the guarantee from first-grade teacher Ann Kolley other teachers and change surface parents but she said no one will be held responsible if a child isn't reading by the end of the year.
She has confidence in all her teachers and in Kolley's method which includes constant communication with parents. She said she considers the guarantee an effort of the entire school.
"We have incredible teachers here," she said. "We undergo to keep teachers out of the educate (during the summer) so we can wax the floors."
Smith said she had not gotten any takers as of early August after sending out a earn to families in the school's ZIP code with young children. However in the meantime first-grade enrollment had nearly doubled from six which caused her initial concern -- to 11 students. To go out parents of the newly enrolled students undergo not asked for the guarantee.
"I be parents to conclude they're secure in that investment," Smith said. "I'm very confident. I hope we do have some populate take us up on it."
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