Delta Executive Georgia Public School Comment... (Atlanta, Albany: middle-class, transplants, 2009)

[aries4118]

Just read it...focus on paragraphs nine, ten, and eleven:


Merger lets Delta add 500 jobs to Atlanta | ajc.com



The good thing is that so many people on this forum have revealed/commented (with first-hand experience) about the issue of schools up North vs. schools down South (well, Metro Atlanta). The notion that schools up North are so superior to schools down South (Metro Atlanta) is just not true.

For the Delta executive to make such a blanket statement...to me, it seems very irresponsible.

I would hope (that's all we have, right?) that the transplants from Minnesota would be guided to the many great public school districts on the Southside...in Fayette County, Coweta County, South+East Henry County, a lot of South Fulton County, and the Alexander/Chapel Hill area of Douglas County.

Sigh...

[wxjay]

Originally Posted by aries4118

The notion that schools up North are so superior to schools down South (Metro Atlanta) is just not true.

I have tutored many high school students through metro Atlanta, and the education they receive vs. what I got in high school are almost leagues apart. I even tutored two children who went to Paces and are from Albany, NY area. They were SHOCKED the lower educational level they were receiving at Paces vs. the public schools in their district in upstate NY.

All in all - there is a reason why Georgia ranks toward the bottom in education categories. I'm sorry, but I am quite happy that I was educated in northern public schools, and I have seen the difference first hand.

[BobKovacs]

Originally Posted by wxjay

I have tutored many high school students through metro Atlanta, and the education they receive vs. what I got in high school are almost leagues apart. I even tutored two children who went to Paces and are from Albany, NY area. They were SHOCKED the lower educational level they were receiving at Paces vs. the public schools in their district in upstate NY.

All in all - there is a reason why Georgia ranks toward the bottom in education categories. I'm sorry, but I am quite happy that I was educated in northern public schools, and I have seen the difference first hand.

So if they came here with vastly superior Northern educations, why did they need tutoring in the schools here???

[gaflsc]

Originally Posted by BobKovacs

So if they came here with vastly superior Northern educations, why did they need tutoring in the schools here???

Oh snap.....

[aries4118]

Originally Posted by BobKovacs

So if they came here with vastly superior Northern educations, why did they need tutoring in the schools here???

[aries4118]

Originally Posted by wxjay

I have tutored many high school students through metro Atlanta, and the education they receive vs. what I got in high school are almost leagues apart. I even tutored two children who went to Paces and are from Albany, NY area. They were SHOCKED the lower educational level they were receiving at Paces vs. the public schools in their district in upstate NY.

All in all - there is a reason why Georgia ranks toward the bottom in education categories. I'm sorry, but I am quite happy that I was educated in northern public schools, and I have seen the difference first hand.

Where are you, neil?

[RainyRainyDay]

Originally Posted by wxjay

I have tutored many high school students through metro Atlanta, and the education they receive vs. what I got in high school are almost leagues apart. I even tutored two children who went to Paces and are from Albany, NY area. They were SHOCKED the lower educational level they were receiving at Paces vs. the public schools in their district in upstate NY.

All in all - there is a reason why Georgia ranks toward the bottom in education categories. I'm sorry, but I am quite happy that I was educated in northern public schools, and I have seen the difference first hand.

Isn't Pace a private school? Seems curious that it's allegedly so poor. However, its quality or lack thereof is no reflection on area public schools.

You're a Georgia Tech student, right, wxjay? Did you find yourself more advanced than students who graduated from local high schools, when you started at Tech? You skipped a year or two, perhaps?

Senior math students at my daughter's school, Lassiter HS in Cobb County, take a Georgia Tech multivariable calculus course by video hookup. This is a soft option in your view? Northern high schoolers are taking more rigorous, higher-level math?

wxjay, you may feel a bit clobbered by the sarcastic tone of this post. It's just that this feels like about the zillionth time around on this topic. Several forum regulars, including me, who moved here with actual children who attended northern schools, and are now attending southern schools, have been pleasantly surprised that the quality of education our children are receiving seems actually better, down here. Of course this wouldn't necessarily true at every school in the metro area. However the middle-class-and-above parts of metro Atlanta have many excellent schools. This myth of northern school superiority is getting incredibly tiresome.

[aries4118]

Originally Posted by RainyRainyDay

Isn't Pace a private school? Seems curious that it's allegedly so poor. However, its quality or lack thereof is no reflection on area public schools.

You're a Georgia Tech student, right, wxjay? Did you find yourself more advanced than students who graduated from local high schools, when you started at Tech? You skipped a year or two, perhaps?

Senior math students at my daughter's school, Lassiter HS in Cobb County, take a Georgia Tech multivariable calculus course by video hookup. This is a soft option in your view? Northern high schoolers are taking more rigorous, higher-level math?

wxjay, you may feel a bit clobbered by the sarcastic tone of this post. It's just that this feels like about the zillionth time around on this topic. Several forum regulars, including me, who moved here with actual children who attended northern schools, and are now attending southern schools, have been pleasantly surprised that the quality of education our children are receiving seems actually better, down here. Of course this wouldn't necessarily true at every school in the metro area. However the middle-class-and-above parts of metro Atlanta have many excellent schools. This myth of northern school superiority is getting incredibly tiresome.

Good post, Rain. And sorry for bringing the topic up yet again...but I was just so shocked and frustrated by what was said in the article.

And the fact is...the article will further spread the myth of northern school superiority--especially to those who are not in the know.

[floyd242]

Originally Posted by BobKovacs

So if they came here with vastly superior Northern educations, why did they need tutoring in the schools here???

Because the teachers here can't teach?

I'm not saying that's true, but your comment doesn't make as much sense as you think, heh.

[gaflsc]

Originally Posted by floyd242

Because the teachers here can't teach?