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??? AP exams are in early May. I graduated a month ago. Nice try though.
Yes - I would imagine that one could find corruption anywhere. That having been said, that doesn't ipso-facto make all places and entities equally corrupt, as you and another poster seem to contend. There is still a gradation of corruption, if you will, and on the whole, Dallas ISD has suffered more in that respect than other areas. That might not bother some people, and that's fine. But I think people should be honest that this has been a problem.
I think DISD is just bigger- scale-wise. But sort of hard to quantify it. Congrats on graduation. Enjoy college, seriously. Go to every football game (lacrosse if you go out east), pep-rally, protest, march, you can. It's over too fast.
I think DISD is just bigger- scale-wise. But sort of hard to quantify it. Congrats on graduation. Enjoy college, seriously. Go to every football game (lacrosse if you go out east), pep-rally, protest, march, you can. It's over too fast.
I agree, size is definitely part of it.
And thank you for those warm wishes! I fully intend to have a blast .
A google search for "Dallas County corruption" yields 706,000 results.
Living in Dallas has many pros, but to claim that Dallas ISD does not suffer from corruption and poor decision making at the top levels would be dishonest.
LOL!
PISD grads rock!
I've done business with both Dallas and Collin County. The latter was straight forward and painless. It took almost 6 months to get paid by Dallas and took forever to get some things approved. It was almost as bad as Chicago.
I've done business with both Dallas and Collin County. The latter was straight forward and painless. It took almost 6 months to get paid by Dallas and took forever to get some things approved. It was almost as bad as Chicago.
I'm writing this in earnest as someone who attended Plano East this past year, and only today realized the enormous positive impact it had on me.
I grew up in Wisconsin and I was always the smartest person in the room, and never had any trouble doing coursework or anything. Naturally this inflated my ego way beyond the level it should have. To cut to the chase upon my move to Plano I was truly humbled. I initially went to Clark high school and I was astounded by the shear number of people who shared my interests. And I mean to a tee, musical taste, taste in film, taste in obscure wikipedia articles read. For the first time I found myself surrounded by individuals who were not only like minded, but who truly challenged me to do better and to actually try.
Plano East, even more so than Plano Senior, or Plano West will prepare your kid for the enormous variety in life. I've met individuals of nearly every religious background (never met a zoroastrian..) pretty much every socioeconomic class, every range of IQ/SAT score was represented. The amazing thing was how well everyone interacted with each other, when you were at Plano East it didn't matter how much money your parents made, what race or religion you were if you were a cool person you belonged.
I did a year in IB, and a year in AP (really regret leaving IB, it was out laziness) and I met so many different people, who are all high achieving now.
The posts commenting on how just being in a room with someone who is a NMSF or an AP scholar, or someone who's going to Harvard that sort of thing really enriches your experience as a student. There are teachers with phD's, every single one of them has a Masters in what they're teaching (even the obscure courses like Computer Science, and Sociology), the students are all hyper competitive but rarely do they sabotage or hinder others.
And the most impressive thing is this, you don't have to be Val or Sal to go to [insert amazing University] in my graduating class I had a kid go to Dartmouth and he wasn't even top 10, a kids go to Duke who wasn't even top 5, countless got scholarships to UT, including people in the prestigious BHP program at McCombs, and Plan II honors. Students who go to UTD with a monthly stipend.
I seriously think Plano East is one of the best school in the country, because of the diversity, competitiveness, and faculty. You won't be sorry having a kid graduate from there.
Final point, if the competitive nature scares you; I didn't even graduate in the top 20% of my class and I'm going to a flagship state University with a scholarship.
I'm writing this in earnest as someone who attended Plano East this past year, and only today realized the enormous positive impact it had on me.
I grew up in Wisconsin and I was always the smartest person in the room, and never had any trouble doing coursework or anything. Naturally this inflated my ego way beyond the level it should have. To cut to the chase upon my move to Plano I was truly humbled. I initially went to Clark high school and I was astounded by the shear number of people who shared my interests. And I mean to a tee, musical taste, taste in film, taste in obscure wikipedia articles read. For the first time I found myself surrounded by individuals who were not only like minded, but who truly challenged me to do better and to actually try.
Plano East, even more so than Plano Senior, or Plano West will prepare your kid for the enormous variety in life. I've met individuals of nearly every religious background (never met a zoroastrian..) pretty much every socioeconomic class, every range of IQ/SAT score was represented. The amazing thing was how well everyone interacted with each other, when you were at Plano East it didn't matter how much money your parents made, what race or religion you were if you were a cool person you belonged.
I did a year in IB, and a year in AP (really regret leaving IB, it was out laziness) and I met so many different people, who are all high achieving now.
The posts commenting on how just being in a room with someone who is a NMSF or an AP scholar, or someone who's going to Harvard that sort of thing really enriches your experience as a student. There are teachers with phD's, every single one of them has a Masters in what they're teaching (even the obscure courses like Computer Science, and Sociology), the students are all hyper competitive but rarely do they sabotage or hinder others.
And the most impressive thing is this, you don't have to be Val or Sal to go to [insert amazing University] in my graduating class I had a kid go to Dartmouth and he wasn't even top 10, a kids go to Duke who wasn't even top 5, countless got scholarships to UT, including people in the prestigious BHP program at McCombs, and Plan II honors. Students who go to UTD with a monthly stipend.
I seriously think Plano East is one of the best school in the country, because of the diversity, competitiveness, and faculty. You won't be sorry having a kid graduate from there.
Final point, if the competitive nature scares you; I didn't even graduate in the top 20% of my class and I'm going to a flagship state University with a scholarship.
I'm writing this in earnest as someone who attended Plano East this past year, and only today realized the enormous positive impact it had on me.
I grew up in Wisconsin and I was always the smartest person in the room, and never had any trouble doing coursework or anything. Naturally this inflated my ego way beyond the level it should have. To cut to the chase upon my move to Plano I was truly humbled. I initially went to Clark high school and I was astounded by the shear number of people who shared my interests. And I mean to a tee, musical taste, taste in film, taste in obscure wikipedia articles read. For the first time I found myself surrounded by individuals who were not only like minded, but who truly challenged me to do better and to actually try.
Plano East, even more so than Plano Senior, or Plano West will prepare your kid for the enormous variety in life. I've met individuals of nearly every religious background (never met a zoroastrian..) pretty much every socioeconomic class, every range of IQ/SAT score was represented. The amazing thing was how well everyone interacted with each other, when you were at Plano East it didn't matter how much money your parents made, what race or religion you were if you were a cool person you belonged.
I did a year in IB, and a year in AP (really regret leaving IB, it was out laziness) and I met so many different people, who are all high achieving now.
The posts commenting on how just being in a room with someone who is a NMSF or an AP scholar, or someone who's going to Harvard that sort of thing really enriches your experience as a student. There are teachers with phD's, every single one of them has a Masters in what they're teaching (even the obscure courses like Computer Science, and Sociology), the students are all hyper competitive but rarely do they sabotage or hinder others.
And the most impressive thing is this, you don't have to be Val or Sal to go to [insert amazing University] in my graduating class I had a kid go to Dartmouth and he wasn't even top 10, a kids go to Duke who wasn't even top 5, countless got scholarships to UT, including people in the prestigious BHP program at McCombs, and Plan II honors. Students who go to UTD with a monthly stipend.
I seriously think Plano East is one of the best school in the country, because of the diversity, competitiveness, and faculty. You won't be sorry having a kid graduate from there.
Final point, if the competitive nature scares you; I didn't even graduate in the top 20% of my class and I'm going to a flagship state University with a scholarship.
Truly awesome post! With your attitude, I'm sure you will do well in college! Congrats again. To all the Plano boosters; I think everyone knows Plano ISD's rep. If I could afford to I would have moved there too...there's just no need to continually bash everyone who doesnt live there ("in love with new dry wall", insert other uncaring parent claim here. Plano's reputation speaks for itself.
Truly awesome post! With your attitude, I'm sure you will do well in college! Congrats again. To all the Plano boosters; I think everyone knows Plano ISD's rep. If I could afford to I would have moved there too...there's just no need to continually bash everyone who doesnt live there ("in love with new dry wall", insert other uncaring parent claim here. Plano's reputation speaks for itself.
Almost anyone can afford to move to East Plano. That is part of why so many people bash East Plano; there is economic diversity as well as ethnic diversity. Yet, Plano East Senior High students do almost as well as Plano West Senior High students. GO PESH! (Tonight is PESH homecoming) Haven't you seen any of the Plano East=ghetto comments on here, even though they are wrong?
Truly awesome post! With your attitude, I'm sure you will do well in college! Congrats again. To all the Plano boosters; I think everyone knows Plano ISD's rep. If I could afford to I would have moved there too...there's just no need to continually bash everyone who doesnt live there ("in love with new dry wall", insert other uncaring parent claim here. Plano's reputation speaks for itself.
The majority of Plano is very affordable with one of the lowest property tax rates in DFW,many apartment rentals that are affordable as well.The small lot sizes make it affordable for many people with the low upkeep costs...
With the exception of the 75093 zip code (still many apartments for rent there) I would describe Plano overall as a middle class,affordable,diverse,safe suburb with a good school district
I'm writing this in earnest as someone who attended Plano East this past year, and only today realized the enormous positive impact it had on me.
I grew up in Wisconsin and I was always the smartest person in the room, and never had any trouble doing coursework or anything. Naturally this inflated my ego way beyond the level it should have. To cut to the chase upon my move to Plano I was truly humbled. I initially went to Clark high school and I was astounded by the shear number of people who shared my interests. And I mean to a tee, musical taste, taste in film, taste in obscure wikipedia articles read. For the first time I found myself surrounded by individuals who were not only like minded, but who truly challenged me to do better and to actually try.
Plano East, even more so than Plano Senior, or Plano West will prepare your kid for the enormous variety in life. I've met individuals of nearly every religious background (never met a zoroastrian..) pretty much every socioeconomic class, every range of IQ/SAT score was represented. The amazing thing was how well everyone interacted with each other, when you were at Plano East it didn't matter how much money your parents made, what race or religion you were if you were a cool person you belonged.
I did a year in IB, and a year in AP (really regret leaving IB, it was out laziness) and I met so many different people, who are all high achieving now.
The posts commenting on how just being in a room with someone who is a NMSF or an AP scholar, or someone who's going to Harvard that sort of thing really enriches your experience as a student. There are teachers with phD's, every single one of them has a Masters in what they're teaching (even the obscure courses like Computer Science, and Sociology), the students are all hyper competitive but rarely do they sabotage or hinder others.
And the most impressive thing is this, you don't have to be Val or Sal to go to [insert amazing University] in my graduating class I had a kid go to Dartmouth and he wasn't even top 10, a kids go to Duke who wasn't even top 5, countless got scholarships to UT, including people in the prestigious BHP program at McCombs, and Plan II honors. Students who go to UTD with a monthly stipend.
I seriously think Plano East is one of the best school in the country, because of the diversity, competitiveness, and faculty. You won't be sorry having a kid graduate from there.
Final point, if the competitive nature scares you; I didn't even graduate in the top 20% of my class and I'm going to a flagship state University with a scholarship.
Congratulations & Best of luck !! Thanks for posting your experience here. It is truly inspiring !!
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