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again, it all depended on where you live. as stated before, our elementary hadn't changed in 14 years and the middle school & high school has only changed once. Yet neighbors were able to get their kids into magnets by choice if they wanted.
Now that there is a choice program, no idea where things are at -- we don't have any kids going into K here so can't answer whether or not the 'neighborhood' school stood up as a choice.
as another poster stated - time will tell whether this is a better system or not. and it'll work the wrinkles out. personally, if I had to live in wake county, I'd move to an existing home in a node with little development going on -- that is going to be the most stable.
guess you can't have both worlds - - new house and stable schooling...imho
personally, if I had to live in wake county, I'd move to an existing home in a node with little development going on -- that is going to be the most stable.
guess you can't have both worlds - - new house and stable schooling...imho
I actually don't have a preference for a new house, being that the older homes are often better built imo. You may have a good strategy there.
guess you can't have both worlds - - new house and stable schooling...imho
That strategy used to work. The reason people are flipping out is that no one has a "base school anymore" - at least on paper.
I am still not following how we can afford so many buses going to so many schools.
I'd love to see some data on whether most nodes have kids going to one or two certain schools, or if, indeed, there are 5 elementary buses driving through each neighborhood, 5 middle school buses, 5 high school buses.
That will be interesting.
I love the idea that the schools should be equivalent- that no school will be truly "bad"
But we can't quantify the value of the sense of community you feel as you and your neighbors go to meet the teacher night or a band concert or track meet together.
Will we get that?
I am still not following how we can afford so many buses going to so many schools.
I'd love to see some data on whether most nodes have kids going to one or two certain schools, or if, indeed, there are 5 elementary buses driving through each neighborhood, 5 middle school buses, 5 high school buses.
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Well, they can't which is why they tried to change the bell schedules of some of the schools this year. Of course they disputed that was the reason, but as you stated, let's face facts - between school choice, people not getting the same selection as neighbors, and magnet schools, you WILL have neighborhoods with multiple buses running through them. It's so dumb and I can't believe they didn't see this coming.
Maybe Wake county should just go back to the way it was before back in the 90's and early 00's. Sure it inconvenienced some but overall and by in large most schools were top notch as far as test scores were concerned. And to prospective people moving to a large city, especially in the south Wake County was hard to beat as far as assuring your child got a good education from a public school, it was well known nationwide that Raleigh/Wake county schools were great. I graduated about ten years ago and can tell you I am saddened as to the debacle this whole ordeal has become. Makes no sense.
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I would like to know how much money this new system is costing the district. It must have taken a lot of manpower to set this system up, not to mention computer programmers to write programs to launch it and keep track of it, buses/gas to transport everyone in dozens of directions, staff to answer residents' questions, etc.
Why didn't they just set boundaries like most other school systems in the country do? I'm outside the system, but it's like a trainwreck, and I can't look away.
If the number one criteria to your living situation is school stability AND quality, then clearly there's only 1 place for you to live: Chapel Hill/carrboro school system.
Nope, it's not available there either. Yes, it's more stable than Wake County, but the CHCCS adds new schools too, and when they do attendance boundaries shift. Growth yields change. Everywhere.
It's a long story. Basically they did'nt do the whole boundary thing years past because traditionally you end up with schools in the affluent areas that were "Good schools" (The best Grades, teachers, programs,attendance, less rowdy kids) and then in the economically challenged areas the "Bad schools" (Poor attendance, bad grades, not so great teachers possibly) i.e. Chicago, New York, Charlotte, Atlanta..... Most cities are set up this way and the results speak for themselves. Soooo.... Wake county switched everything up many years ago by looking at all the schools and distributing those kids from middle and upper middle class to schools reasonably closeby (but not the closest sometimes)schools And mixing in kids from lower middle and poorer areas in. So that by in large no particular school or area of town was worse off as far as the schools were concerned. The county flourished and schools had great record of having excelling standards for many many years. Then overcrowding came in the late 90's and early 2000's the newly moved in affluent transplants started griping that their kids went to school too far away although in many cases it was just a couple of miles. And then the whole thing came tumbling down, And they keep trying, and keep trying to get it right. Meanwhile the accolades Wake County Schools used to garner went the way of the Cassette Tape :/
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