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10-21-2006, 08:12 PM
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Year Round OR...
Are there other options besides year round? Are there some areas where you can just be in a traditional school?
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10-25-2006, 07:44 PM
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traditional school
My children ages 7 and 5 will be attending Cedar Fork elem... a traditional school (for now!!)Anj
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10-25-2006, 09:41 PM
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Are there other options besides year round? Are there some areas where you can just be in a traditional school?
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After watching a special tonite on a Raleigh station about the proposed school bond issue, those traditional school choices will be fewer and far between. There are 40 Wake County Schools (inc. elementary, middle and high) slated to go multi-track year round next year. Even if the bond passes to build more schools, it won't provide the funds needed to keep up with the growth. You can go to WRAL.com to read more about the school bond issue. |
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10-26-2006, 07:07 AM
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It is all confusing, year round vs. traditional. For example, in wake forest, there are 4 elementary schools: heritage (year round) Wakefield (will be year round in 07), jones dairy (year round) and wake forest elementary (magnet). So, if I lived in the district for wake forest elementary I could go there, but if I lived in any of the other districts wake forest elementary would not be a magnet choice I could make. So, in wake forest, unless you live in the wake forest elementary district, you will go to year round.
Now, wake county has charter school and magnet schools. The magnets are part of the wake county school system and there are designated ones you can attend based on where you live. When you go to wcpss.net (the wake county public school web site) you can input your address and see what your base and magnet schools are. Then there are charter schools, which follow the same guidelines as the public schools, but are funded separately. Many have corporate funding, etc and are run privately, but are free to students. So, when I apply for my daughter to go to kindergarten in 07, I will apply for her base school (wakefield) and pick a track for her to be on (and hope she gets it), then I can also apply separately to the magnets in our district as well as to any charter schools I would like. So, I could have 10 applications out there and get in to all of them and then decide what I want to do.
Basically, it takes a lot of homework in deciding how you want to deal with the schools, meaning, look at charter schools, look at magnets, look at the base schools, make informed decisions.
Leigh
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10-26-2006, 07:52 AM
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MariGirl, I'm having trouble finding that info on the WRAL site... I was concerned to hear in your post that some high schools might be going to year round. Thought they were not going to change the high schools. Can you please tell me what you know about this or maybe send me a link? Thanks.
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10-26-2006, 08:35 AM
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From what I understand they cannot make high schools go year round because of the AP classes, etc. I have heard that in 2009 they may have the high school schedule modified to match a traditional schedule just a little bit.
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10-26-2006, 09:25 AM
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Good, maybe we are OK for the next couple of years!
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10-26-2006, 03:16 PM
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Originally Posted by AmyK
MariGirl, I'm having trouble finding that info on the WRAL site... I was concerned to hear in your post that some high schools might be going to year round. Thought they were not going to change the high schools. Can you please tell me what you know about this or maybe send me a link? Thanks.
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The bond info. is on the WRAL site and it restates part of what the 30 minute special covered. During the program they flashed a breakdown grid of the number of schools slated at this time to go year-round in 07. I was also surprised to see high school, b/c I personally can't see how those could work well yr. round. I searched their site too trying to find out the breakdown and which schools, but that info. is not there. It was a 30 minute news special, so I guess they couldn't include everything from it on the web site. |
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10-26-2006, 08:10 PM
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In a word; no. There isn't any area of Wake County that you can move to and be gaurenteed that you will still be assigned to the same school for 3 years let alone any certain type of school. It is still only a smaill minority of schools in Wake County that are year round, and most of them are elementary schools; but it is definitely an escalating issue and there will only be more to come.
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