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12-11-2007, 11:03 AM
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Get rid of that stinkin thinkin!
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Fort Worth/Dallas
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Dallas Public Schools Has Number One and Number Two Top Public Schools in the Country
Apparently Talented and Gifted and Science/Engineering Magnet are the top 2 schools in the country for 2007. Great News!
America's Top Public High Schools | Newsweek Best High Schools | Newsweek.com |
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12-11-2007, 11:35 AM
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Proud Gay Conservative!
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: LONE STAR STATE
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I think they also held that title last year as well!!
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12-11-2007, 01:52 PM
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Location: Dallas, Texas
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Too bad many of the other schools are terrible, underperforming, abysses of failure.
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12-11-2007, 02:15 PM
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Senior Member
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80 exemplary and recognized schools out of 210.
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12-11-2007, 02:19 PM
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Real Housewife of Dallas
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Location: The Big D
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Did you see where the Standard & Poors ranking for the No 5 high school was a goof? They named Montpelier H.S. in Virginia as number 5 only to come back and tell them it was a goof and they are actually in the top 500 of the 18,000 high schools nationally. One student said they could not believe their school was up there at the top w/ the TAG schools and knew it was not THAT special. They already had the "No 5" ranking on the sign out front when the principal found out it was a goof and they had to take it down.
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12-11-2007, 02:27 PM
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Location: Dallas, Texas
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lakewooder
80 exemplary and recognized schools out of 210.
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Most of them in white, middle-class areas of town, and most of them elementary schools with small catchment areas. I remain unimpressed. |
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12-11-2007, 03:05 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Dallas, TX
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nativeDallasite
Too bad many of the other schools are terrible, underperforming, abysses of failure.
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I am glad I was able to climb out of the abyss.  |
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12-11-2007, 03:07 PM
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Senior Member
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I'll play Br'er Rabbit and ask to be thrown into it...
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12-11-2007, 03:16 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Dallas, Texas
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lpepping
I am glad I was able to climb out of the abyss. |
I was fortunate enough to be born white and middle class and live in north Dallas.
I shudder to think what would have become of me if I had not been. The DISD certainly wouldn't have given a squirt of p*ss for my future.
The DISD's schools are unacceptably bad. Just because Woodrow, Hillcrest, and White still have some local support from middle class families does not mean that DISD schools are not being sucked down the toilet. Let's not be naive, please! |
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12-11-2007, 03:18 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Garland Texas
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nativeDallasite
Most of them in white, middle-class areas of town, and most of them elementary schools with small catchment areas. I remain unimpressed.
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Perhaps the problem isn't DISD curriculum or DISD staff, but the parents and students in under preforming schools? |
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