What's the true story of Grady High School? (Atlanta, North Atlanta: neighborhood, college)

[MikeandIke27]

All schools can be dangerous to me.. Ask the people of columbine high school. Very nice school. I bet they didn't know there was going to be a Mass of killings when they came to school.

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by MikeandIke27

All schools can be dangerous to me.. Ask the people of columbine high school. Very nice school. I bet they didn't know there was going to be a Mass of killings when they came to school.

Individuals can buck trends no matter where you go. Even if the system is safe and all students raised inside the system are perfect, one person who came in from outside could change things.

You never know.

[MikeandIke27]

Originally Posted by rcsteiner

Individuals can buck trends no matter where you go. Even if the system is safe and all students raised inside the system are perfect, one person who came in from outside could change things.

You never know.

Right thats the point i was making

[elvez]

Originally Posted by dhonez

hi im a student at grady high school and i am a sophomore. grady high school my mom thought that the exact same things as you but since all my friends went there i really wanted to go, so she placed me in the magnet program which allows those children to be placed away from more of the violent ones. grady high school is one of the record breaking school, its so good that it even was on a tv show. we have newspapers that have been rated one in the country. and the students there range from the nicest neighborhoods to the not so good ones. to tell you the truth there is fighting every once in the blue moon but for both the two years ive been here there was been no weapon bringing or fight that werent broken up immidiatley. the school has students that go on to the highest up schools for example harvard and ucla. Our school for the past four years has been under a system where if you fight or do anything in that manner or bring any type of illegal things to school then you are automatically expelled. so most of the violent students have all been kicked out. theres really nothing to worry about and not to mention if you bring your son to a private school he might get involved with the wrong crowd and start doing higher up drugs due to the amount of money.
if you send your son to grady high school i guarantee he will love it.

This endorsement doesn't exactly make me want to send my kids to Grady. Do they teach punctuation and spelling at that school? My second-grader writes better than this.

[Sandy Springs Rep.]

Originally Posted by elvez

This endorsement doesn't exactly make me want to send my kids to Grady. Do they teach punctuation and spelling at that school? My second-grader writes better than this.

*coughs* Sorry, I'm alergic to bull$%!#. Your second-grader writes better, my ass.

For a sophomore in high school, I think dhonez articulated his point well and made a good case for Grady. No, he didn't use a lot of punctuation, but that's common for teenagers on the internet. And I only noticed one misspelled word.

[bdawk]

Originally Posted by Sandy Springs Rep.

*coughs* Sorry, I'm alergic to bull$%!#. Your second-grader writes better, my ass.

For a sophomore in high school, I think dhonez articulated his point well and made a good case for Grady. No, he didn't use a lot of punctuation, but that's common for teenagers on the internet. And I only noticed one misspelled word.

Made "a good case for Grady"? THAT is funny.

The grammer is terrible! The school environment decribed sounds equally bad - that is if you care about providing your child with a top class learning environment. Hey, at least it's paid for by the taxpayers right.

[elvez]

Originally Posted by Sandy Springs Rep.

*coughs* Sorry, I'm alergic to bull$%!#. Your second-grader writes better, my ass.

For a sophomore in high school, I think dhonez articulated his point well and made a good case for Grady. No, he didn't use a lot of punctuation, but that's common for teenagers on the internet. And I only noticed one misspelled word.

Surely you jest. That was the one of the worst paragraphs ever written in the history of the written language. I would drag his English teacher out of the class and shoot her on the spot.

[Sandy Springs Rep.]

Surely, this is hyperbole.

[RainyRainyDay]

I repped Sandy Springs Rep. The criticisms of the Grady student's paragraph seem like posturing by people who are either unfamiliar with contemporary teen internet culture, or are feigning ignorance because it suits their agenda.

Elvez's second grader could write a better paragraph? Let's see some samples of this prodigy's work. Of course this is all hyperbole.

[sidkris99]

No school can control what teenagers do. Growing up in a suburb of Winston-Salem, NC going to school with kids from the "other side" of town and those in my safe neighborhood. The kids that got in trouble for bringing guns and knives to school were the ones in my own backyard.

Kids have varying reasons for what they do; protection, showing off, show and tell...

You can't rate a high achieving school in a metropolitan city based on comments such as that.