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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
What a stupid survey. Their evaluation methods guaranteed that private or magnet type schools would fill the top ten. That's not a reflection of the school's quality or lack thereof, it's a reflection of the school being filled with the area's beat and brightest students.
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And we all know the top students would rather apply to sheety schools!!!!
There's a couple of reasons the top students compete for magnet schools and there are reasons parents pay big $$$ for private schools.
1) they are typically better schools.
Better teachers, better administrators, better curriculum, better facilities.
2) lack of RIFF RAFF.
Teachers have to teach down to the lowest common denominator, and at magnet and private schools that isn't as far down as at public schools.
IOW, they don't let the dyslexic kid with sheety grades drag down the top performers, they don't let the poor students STEAL time and education from the good students.
They don't let the kids who barely habla waste the good student's time by having to repeat everything two or three times.
That's why it works. Put the good students together in good schools where they can excel.
Put the poor students in poor schools because the majority of them don't really give a crap any way.
Ya wanna go to a good school? Earn it.
Ya wanna get good grades? Put in the effort, work hard like the good students do, and earn it.
That's too much to ask?
The world needs ditch diggers to Danny.
I sat through high school getting nearly straight A's without donig any homework, and the hardest part was staying awake whikle the dumb kids stole my education.
They wasted my time, wasted potential, wasted my energy.
That was not fair, they shuold not have been in those classes.
Note that in 7th through 10th grade I was in The MGM program (mentally gifted minors).
basically accellerated advanced classes similar to honors or AP classes today.
but in 11th grade they killed that program because the STOOPID parents of the STOOPID students complained that we were getting preferential treatment and a better education than their darling little morons.
So I was put back in the regular clasees where the student's main concern was where the next bong hit was coming from.
But i'm not bitter .......