INC NEWS - High School report cards are out

[pat carstensen]

Hey, there are whole regions of the country not on the list (Iowa, the 
Dakotas, etc.).  They just used % of students with AP classes or 
international bacheloreate (or however you spell that).  In particular, it 
says nothing about what is happening with the kids who aren't going to 
college.  I agree that we have a lot to fix in the Durham schools, but a LOT 
of the things that need fixing (everything about kids who have given up on 
learning and are concentrating on causing trouble, for example) won't get 
measured the way Newsweek does it.

Regards, pat carstensen

>From: "RW Pickle" <randy at 27beverly.com>
>To: inc-list at durhaminc.org
>Subject: INC NEWS -  High School report cards are out
>Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 17:25:34 -0400 (EDT)
>
>We read this week that Durham is the second most expensive cost-per-pupil
>educational system in the State. Only Mecklenburg (Charlotte area) was
>greater.
>
>Newsweek magazine then arrives the next day with the cover of the top 100
>High Schools in the country. Mecklenburg has 2 schools listed. Raleigh has
>2 schools listed. Even Chapel Hill has 2 schools listed. But Durham had no
>schools on the list at all. Even little Matthews, NC had one on the list.
>But not Durham; the city full of bull. I mean the bull city. ; )
>
>I don't have kids in our schools, but I still pay the taxes as if I did.
>And I think it's time those of us who do this tell those running the show
>that throwing money at the system won't fix it. It looks like we're doing
>that now and it must not be working. Even the folks with kids in the
>Durham schools should be mad about this.
>
>Newsweek could have just missed us I guess. Durham, the forgotten part of
>the triangle. If good things are happening in Durham, it must not be in
>our educational system. It's easy to see that money isn't fixing the
>problem. The other major university towns that surround us must have a
>secret we have yet to learn. They made this list multiple times. Why don't
>we ask them how to do it?
>
>I said last week that if the Ral/Dur ever dropped the Dur from it, we'd
>never make some of the lists we make. They didn't lump us together in this
>high school study and we didn't make the list. Education has to be one our
>priorities. At least we're spending money like it is and not getting the
>results (like missing the Newsweek Top 100 all together unlike our
>neighboring towns who do it for less).
>
>Randy Pickle
>Forest Hills
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