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I was looking at the numbers and Wake County Schools has 137,706 students enrolled in the 08/09 school year.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools had 132,281 students enrolled in the 07/08 school year.
Only a 5,500 student difference.
Both regions are growing fast, but isn't Charlotte growing faster?
Do you think Mecklenburg county schools will become larger than Wake county schools in around 10 years?
Probably not because sooner of later the district, as politically incorrect as it may be to some, will have to split for the benefit of the children.
The rich in Myers Park will fight to the bitter end, but expect a suburbia and a city district evenutally. Current system is too big, but more importantly, to fractured. What is good for city is frequently not good for the suburbia sprawl and vice versa. An example..fix old schools or build new ones where the people are..for just a very easy example.
Perhaps brighter people in the central office, or a school board based on intelligence, rather than tired and outdated political agendas, could make it work, but the current crowd just don't have the mental acumen to pull it off.
If the kids were first, it would have been done by now, but politics prevail. Someday the children might.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools had been the largest school system in NC since the two systems merged in 1960, but Wake County Schools recently passed CMS in size. Wake County is growing faster and is larger in area, so it will continue to add more students and continue to have a larger school system than CMS.
perhaps brighter people in the central office, or a school board based on intelligence, rather than tired and outdated political agendas, could make it work, but the current crowd just don't have the mental acumen to pull it off.
I think it has the ability to surpass Wake. Also, in addition to what LLN said, we have some incredible great private schools here. Charlotte Latin, Charlotte Country Day, Charlotte Christian, VCC, etc. I don't know about the private schools in Wake so I can't comment, but the private schools here in the QC are pretty huge.
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