Word: withdrawnness
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...report also examined attitudes toward Cambridge's controlled-choice plan, finding that parents who have withdrawn their children call for its reform in greater numbers than those who keep their children in the schools...
...School Committee contracted Opinion Dynamics Corporation, a Cambridge-based market research firm, to conduct the study. Opinion Dynamics interviewed 500 parents by phone, 200 of whom have children in the schools, 200 of whom have withdrawn their children, and 100 whose children could be potential students...
While the surveyors interviewed parents who have withdrawn their children from the schools, the study has been criticized because parents who had chosen private or charter schools without ever sending their children to the public schools were not surveyed...
...when asked why they thought other families are leaving the system, a whopping 56 percent of current parents and 47 percent of withdrawn parents cited high Cambridge housing costs. School administrators and elected officials have long contended that the expensive housing is pricing young families out of Cambridge...
...addition, parents whose children are currently enrolled in the system interpret the system's shortcomings differently than parents who have withdrawn their children...