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06-09-2009, 05:25 PM
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Newsweek Top 1500 High Schools for '09 include 113 in Texas
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06-09-2009, 05:54 PM
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I agree with some, but there are a lot of dubious entries on there as well as some curious absences.
By whatever criteria they're using, you'd think San Antonio had the best schools in the nation.
Klein Forest and Conroe in the Top 6% of HS in the US? While Klein HS and Klein Collins and The Woodlands HS are not even on that list? Westside in the top 200? You gotta be kidding me.
BS.
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06-09-2009, 05:57 PM
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Klein Forest instead of Klein?!? Seriously?
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06-09-2009, 06:01 PM
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Most of the schools on just the first page are Magnets, Career, Tech, or Vanguard schools. That tells you something, doesn't it?
And let me just pause in my laughter at #97--FORT MYERS?!?! Ft. Myers' schools are self-destructing right now thanks to school choice. I am sorry, but after seeing that, this list has absolutely NO credibility.
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06-09-2009, 06:03 PM
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My alma mater, Dallas Woodrow Wilson, and Houston Lamar (IB) are both on the list and somewhat similar - we will be offering IB in 2010.
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06-09-2009, 06:04 PM
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Most of the schools on just the first page are Magnets, Career, Tech, or Vanguard schools. That tells you something, doesn't it?
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Yep, when you can pick and choose your students, you can make a pretty good school. Seems like magnets should have their own category. They aren't on the same scale. A magnet with 500 hand-picked students vs. a 3,500 student HS....not quite apples to apples. |
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06-09-2009, 06:04 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mom2Feebs
Most of the schools on just the first page are Magnets, Career, Tech, or Vanguard schools. That tells you something, doesn't it?
And let me just pause in my laughter at #97--FORT MYERS?!?! Ft. Myers' schools are self-destructing right now thanks to school choice. I am sorry, but after seeing that, this list has absolutely NO credibility.
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Thoese rankings never have any credibility.. in my ionion |
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06-09-2009, 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Mr. Football
I agree with some, but there are a lot of dubious entries on there as well as some curious absences.
By whatever criteria they're using, you'd think San Antonio had the best schools in the nation.
Klein Forest and Conroe in the Top 6% of HS in the US? While Klein HS and Klein Collins and The Woodlands HS are not even on that list? Westside in the top 200? You gotta be kidding me.
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Westside is a very good HS, better than Memorial? Questionable. But the West Houston is really catching on. Home prices along Briar Forest have taken off dramatically in the past 3 years.
Little shocked that Stratford beat Clements in Sugarland. Don't they think they are "Harvard" or something?
Cypress isn't looking so good. I think that district is too big. The Woodlands isn't ranked because it's 9th grade has a different campus. Even so, I heard it's very average. |
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06-09-2009, 07:02 PM
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Excellent that 4 of Katy's schools made the list- two in the top 500!
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06-09-2009, 07:54 PM
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How do they say they rank these schools?
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