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There is a glaring problem that I see with the numbers and it doesn't take a math wizard to see it. The percentage given is not appropriate. If you look at the total population of the schools, 300 of 9600 students is 3%. How do they get .5%????? Maybe they should have the ALAP kids show the school committee and administration how to figure out the percentages, they can certainly get that right. In fact, the school committee shouldn't be comparing the 300 against the total population of the schools as the Secondary schools have honors programs that the elementary students do not have. ALAP is the honors program for the elementary students. I believe there are approximately 4600 elementary students and the 300 students are a part of that budget. So 300 out of 4600 is 6.5% not .5 percent.

So in order to have the budget help more than .5% of the students you need only to do correct math. It is 6.5% of the elementary students.

If they want to look at a fair comparison $325K is 0.0018 of $158,000,000. Alap is less than 2 one-thousandths of a percent of the total budget. They are putting less than 2 one-thousandths of the budget into 6.2% of the elementary kids.

Two of my 3 children are in ALAP and I have seen the difference in the programs. My non-alap child never had any homework, only work she didn't finish in class. My 2 alap students have projects that taught them time management and required them the do research learning computer skills too. This was more than a program to shut parents up.