I already knew but just seeing the actual scoring makes me say wow wow wow.

http://www.wral.com/nc-report-card-results-by-school/14425865/

[Edited on February 5, 2015 at 6:07 PM. Reason : /]

2/5/2015 6:05:56 PM

Wow, even the hot-rodded magnet schools I went to in Wake County are getting B and C grades (along with Riverside HS in Durham, coming in with a "C")

2/5/2015 6:19:50 PM

C = 55 to 69

:/

Next year it will be on the 10-pont scale. So do they have a true C or fake ass C?

2/5/2015 6:28:09 PM

Is it the school or the students? Everyone ignores the elephant in the room here. I'll give you a hint though, there's a reason that ^^ a school in Durham has such a low score...

[Edited on February 5, 2015 at 6:30 PM. Reason : ...]

2/5/2015 6:30:31 PM

I just assume you're joking.

Right?

2/5/2015 6:32:57 PM

Um, no.

2/5/2015 6:33:23 PM

Quote :

"Is it the school or the students?"

Its the ratio of money that you spend on education vs oh.... i don't know building football stadiums.

Durham systematically closed all of the higher performing schools (and businesses in general) for African Americans and basically replaced them all with 147 and a Prison. I'm literally not even joking.
https://econ.duke.edu/uploads/assets/dje/2010/Ehrsam,%20Fred_DJE.pdf

some lite reading

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2/5/2015 7:02:58 PM

sometimes you gotta leave a child behind

2/5/2015 7:15:23 PM

Those letter grades are seriously flawed. Even if you can accept the idea of reducing everything a school does down to a single letter grade, basing that grade off of 80% testing proficiency and only 20% growth is laughable.

2/5/2015 7:32:47 PM

How is it possible that a Duke student in 2010 can't format a paper for shit? That paper looks terrible.

2/5/2015 8:03:51 PM

The schools aren't terrible. This is a horrible scheme.

Why don't we grade the fucking parents? When did we stop looking to them for excellence in school?

2/5/2015 10:07:30 PM

I'm from Vance Co

Mine were Aycock (C), Henderson Middle (F), and Southern Vance (D)

I think almost all of them were Ds and Fs

[Edited on February 5, 2015 at 10:40 PM. Reason : .]

2/5/2015 10:28:22 PM

I went to an 'A' school that employed plenty of 'F' teachers during my time there

no parent would have been able to overcome their awfulness

2/5/2015 10:37:54 PM

yeah, it's not the parent conducting the school, it's the teacher. shitty parents can certainly fuck up the process too, though.

hey, well this is a pleasant surprise

Quote :

"Apex High A 86 "

shrug. I dunno, a lot of rich people and comparatively few not-white people live in Cary. and a lot of Cary-like people have spilled over into Apex in recent years.

2/5/2015 10:43:07 PM

It's not the white people of Cary/Apex, it's the Asians.

Elementary C
Middle B
High B

2/6/2015 12:16:00 AM

Elementary- A
Middle- B
High- A

2/6/2015 12:31:45 AM

Elementary B
Middle F
High B

2/6/2015 12:33:31 AM

lol Southeast Raleigh = C

2/6/2015 1:06:45 AM

my daughters school got a C

i dont blame the teachers or admins tho, only so much you can do when you have 38% free or reduced lunch

2/6/2015 6:36:29 AM

Manning Elementary - C
Chaloner Middle - C
Roanoke Rapids High - C

My kids schools now are all solids B's and A's though.

2/6/2015 8:35:00 AM

D
D
C

lolololol

2/6/2015 8:47:22 AM

Quote :

"i dont blame the teachers or admins tho, only so much you can do when you have 38% free or reduced lunch"

This

My schools weren't too shabby, especially considering I'm from Gaston Co.

B
D
B

[Edited on February 6, 2015 at 9:08 AM. Reason : asdf]

2/6/2015 9:04:01 AM

Charter Schools Vance Charter School C 66 C 63 C 67

My daughter is in Kindergarten, how concerned should i be?

2/6/2015 9:10:05 AM

Vance Co? Or Vance Elementary in Wake?

2/6/2015 9:14:19 AM

Only went to HS in NC. Apparently still a good one too. A 95

2/6/2015 9:15:10 AM

^^ It is a charter school in Vance Co.

2/6/2015 9:33:23 AM

N/A
N/A
B

2/6/2015 9:33:27 AM

D
F
F
C (Fake C 60)

2/6/2015 9:52:53 AM

Elem - A and B
Middle - B
High - B and B

Pretty dang good I'd say.

Quote :

"only so much you can do when you have 38% free or reduced lunch"

38% is really not that bad. The state wide average is somewhere around 56%. There are plenty of school that are well into the 70s and 80s in our state.
http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/2239-percent-of-students-enrolled-in-free-and-reduced-lunch?loc=35#detailed/2/any/false/1021,909,857,105,118/any/4682

2/6/2015 10:20:15 AM

ELEM - B
MIDDLE - B (WLMS for 1 year -- I also went to East Cary though for 2 years and that school doesn't exist anymore)
HIGH - B.. Athens a B? lolk

2/6/2015 10:24:14 AM

We are looking at this now. I was expecting good things for the budget Wake County has and the bonds we pass constantly, but when you show up to even the brand new schools you get a laundry list of complaints and reasons why they don't have this and that from the administration.

My comparison point is Robeson County schools in the 80s-90s when NC was in the 48th position or so and Rob Co was in the 99th county position or so. I don't feel there's much difference walking into a "good" school in Wake today. Cleaner maybe, but that's it. Just as depressing.

After touring about 10 schools we're crossing our fingers for private school. Slim odds because it's a competitive process, but it would be fantastic. They'll go public for middle and high school, but I can't see happily sending my kids to any of the public elementary schools and this is after years of questioning the money people that I worked with wasted on private because Wake County had to be perfectly fine.

2/6/2015 10:31:24 AM

They are going to start expelling all the fuckup kids to get their numbers up watch.

Oh you were pencil fighting eh? 365 day suspension!!!

2/6/2015 10:37:39 AM

Louis CK had a simplistic, yet valid point.

It's still school and it still fucking sucks.

2/6/2015 10:55:04 AM

Quote :

"only so much you can do when you have 38% free or reduced lunch"

so poor kids are stupid?

2/6/2015 11:42:17 AM

^apparently, yes.

2/6/2015 11:55:38 AM

More like they have stupid(er) parents and a system that works against them. There's more evidence that what happens prior to 2 years old dictates success in school more than anything else. Thereafter parental involvement is a secondary factor that can make a positive impact.

So, on average, those kids likely have a less favorable home environment and Wake County conspiratorially buses kids around to hit free and reduced lunch threshold percentages in as many schools as possible to get to the bonus round on funding dollars, which is a double whammy of less time at home and it being harder for those parents to get to the school.

So #1 it's not the kids fault to start with. #2 they are used as a tool by the system in a way that provides them no benefit. #3 they're pretty much screwed.


[Edited on February 6, 2015 at 12:20 PM. Reason : a]

2/6/2015 12:18:26 PM

where i currently live:

elementary: B
middle: B
high: A

where i grew up:

elementary: B
middle: C
high: C

[Edited on February 6, 2015 at 12:27 PM. Reason : hometown]

2/6/2015 12:26:02 PM