Lot's of Education "Opinions" on this Forum

[Rakin]

Everybody has an Opinion.

That's what forums are all about.

And that's my educated opinion.

[Threestep2]

I am sure parents in DFW will move to Houston for some obscure analysts findings. Just send them to Lawrenceville and all will be fine.

What I find disturbing is your agressive behavior when other posters do mot agree with you.

[DitsyD]

Originally Posted by TheOverdog

This is kind of a funny statement considering that the majority of the ones they picked (St Marks, Hockaday, Plano East, Plano West, and Highland Park) are among the most expensive and/or highest median incomes areas for public schools in the US, which is I personally think is fine but if you are considering them 'accessible to lower income students' these are not the schools I would pick.


I would also throw shade at the study itself, which has listings of a single school that sent more than the Texas top 3 combined, so I'm not sure that admittance to these 3 universities is fully meritocratic, or if it is that must be one amazing high school.

That is funny.

27.8% of the students at Plano East are economically disadvantaged.

A number of posters on this forum have actually said that East Plano is ghetto.

[Waterdragon8212]

The omission of Yale, in particular, seems odd - almost as if the Yale matriculation numbers would considerably skew the data in another direction. If you are looking for data to confirm what you want it to confirm, the manipulation of schools included could certainly do that...

If we did a survey of Yale, Dartmouth, and Brown, would the rankings be the same? How about University of Chicago, Stanford, and Columbia? Four years worth of matriculation data to three schools does not "prove" anything other than the obvious - those high schools sent that many students to those colleges in that time range.

[TheOverdog]

27.8% of the students at Plano East are economically disadvantaged.

A number of posters on this forum have actually said that East Plano is ghetto.

27% is a pretty low number comparatively, and people say false things on these forums all the time. Doesn't change the fact that Plano has a median income just outside $90k, or that the 2/3 of Plano East that aren't disadvantaged are the ones going to top universities. Or that East Plano is not at all ghetto.