How to Cheat without Breaking the Law
Gather round, children. Grandpa Johnny wants to show you how to cheat and lie without doing anything illegal. This will come in handy, especially if you want to run charter schools in New York when you grow up.
The story I am going to tell you, kids, involves something grownups call ‘Attrition,’ which means losing things, in this case children like you. ‘Attrition’ is bad, and so all charter schools try to have a low number, like maybe 5 or 6 out of 100.
In other words, if a charter school starts the year with 100 students and ends up with 95, that would be just a 5% ‘Attrition’ rate…and a reason to celebrate.
Here’s where you have to pay attention, because, if you run charter schools, YOU get to decide when to start measuring ‘Attrition.’ You could start counting on the first day of school, or you could wait until the state requires you to tell how many kids are enrolled a month and a half later.
In other words, if your school has 100 kids when classes begin on August 24th, you How to Cheat without Breaking the Law | The Merrow Report:
