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Parent urges Rapid City schools to fix inconsistency in acceleration policy percentiles
Summary
A parent and statistician told the Rapid City Area School District board that new acceleration procedures use a higher percentile cutoff than the district policy, creating unintended barriers for middle schoolers seeking to skip a grade.
Zara Maddox, a statistician, former teacher and parent, told the Rapid City Area School District board during public comment that newly adopted acceleration procedures contradict the district's acceleration policy and create barriers for students who could benefit from grade acceleration.
Maddox said the district policy (district code IGBB) uses the 90th percentile at a student's current grade as the eligibility cutoff, which would make roughly 620 of the district's about 12,400 students eligible to apply. She said sections 5 and 6 of the acceleration procedure (district code…
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