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Location: New Albany, Indiana (Greater Louisville)
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I'll never figure out how the Lexington schools do so well. The one HS I went to (Lafayette) was like a juvenile prison w/ o a fence. In one class the teacher would write the reading / question assignment on the board and then leave for an hour, the guy I set next to used the class to roll marijuana joints. There were bomb threats on a weekly basis, several times a year 80% of students stayed home due to rumors of a school shooting plot. You could get sucker punched right in front of a teacher and they would do nothing. In shop class you learned the latest WWE wrestling moves (practicing on other kids) and the closed off video editing room was used for watching porn.
I'll never figure out how the Lexington schools do so well. The one HS I went to (Lafayette) was like a juvenile prison w/ o a fence. In one class the teacher would write the reading / question assignment on the board and then leave for an hour, the guy I set next to used the class to roll marijuana joints. There were bomb threats on a weekly basis, several times a year 80% of students stayed home due to rumors of a school shooting plot. You could get sucker punched right in front of a teacher and they would do nothing. In shop class you learned the latest WWE wrestling moves (practicing on other kids) and the closed off video editing room was used for watching porn.
Dang! what kind of schools are these? I graduated in 92' I don't remember any of that kind of stuff where I went to school LOL
Location: New Albany, Indiana (Greater Louisville)
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My suffering ended in 2002 lol. Actually I stopped going to public school in 2000 and finished by home schooling because it simply wasn't a safe environment.
I don't think this is just a Lexington issue, though I had major problems in all 4 different schools I went to. I went K-4 in Russell and Casey counties and never ever had one issue.
One of my sisters had a co worker who moved her son from Jessamine Co to Lexington schools. In JC had never had an issues. In Lex he kept not going to school to avoid getting beat up. One time he was actually held down at the bus stop and the bully urinated on his head. The mom moved him back to JC schools and he does great again
I think city schools in general are worse for several reasons...
1. A lot more broken homes, lack of fathers in the family. Creates a lot of angry kids
2. Intense competition between neighborhoods, sides of town, and race. In the country rich and poor live side by side
3. A lot of transplants from all over the place, people are fighting for their place. In a small town the same families have lived there for centuries.
4. More emphasis on wealth / money.
I'll never figure out how the Lexington schools do so well. The one HS I went to (Lafayette) was like a juvenile prison w/ o a fence. In one class the teacher would write the reading / question assignment on the board and then leave for an hour, the guy I set next to used the class to roll marijuana joints. There were bomb threats on a weekly basis, several times a year 80% of students stayed home due to rumors of a school shooting plot. You could get sucker punched right in front of a teacher and they would do nothing. In shop class you learned the latest WWE wrestling moves (practicing on other kids) and the closed off video editing room was used for watching porn.
My suffering ended in 2002 lol. Actually I stopped going to public school in 2000 and finished by home schooling because it simply wasn't a safe environment.
I don't think this is just a Lexington issue, though I had major problems in all 4 different schools I went to. I went K-4 in Russell and Casey counties and never ever had one issue.
One of my sisters had a co worker who moved her son from Jessamine Co to Lexington schools. In JC had never had an issues. In Lex he kept not going to school to avoid getting beat up. One time he was actually held down at the bus stop and the bully urinated on his head. The mom moved him back to JC schools and he does great again
I think city schools in general are worse for several reasons...
1. A lot more broken homes, lack of fathers in the family. Creates a lot of angry kids
2. Intense competition between neighborhoods, sides of town, and race. In the country rich and poor live side by side
3. A lot of transplants from all over the place, people are fighting for their place. In a small town the same families have lived there for centuries.
4. More emphasis on wealth / money.
I know kids can be cruel, anywhere. It's kind of a concern I have for my son. I mean, we'll be living in the Louisville area, yet he'll be half American and half Argentinian, even though he has a VERY large extended Kentucky family, only a few are in Louisville. He'll be fully bilingual...I dunno, it's just something I've thought of from time to time wondering.
He's my only son, maybe I'm a bit protective but I hear all these stories of bullying etc. When I was in school late 80's early 90's it just wans't that bad. I mean, of course it happened and stuff happened but now it just seems that much more different.
Even so, this is one reason why my wife and I ar adamant about rpivate shcool, preferrably a christian school.
My Son went to Lafayette, but it was at a later period of time than when you were there Censusdata. He did mention that while he was there, they had a Police Officer or two, who had that as their regular job/beat. I am not sure if all Public High Schools in Fayette have that are not. He wasn't bullied there, but was in Middle school. He also scored really high on his ACT/SAT scores and did well in college, so I think overall, he received a fairly good education there. (I didn't even know they still had shop class anymore! My son told me that they didn't!)
Dunbar did really well. As well as some of the Louisville schools also. Lexington didn't do too badly.
My son just read your comment and said when he went to Lafayette it was nothing at all like that...so I guess it has changed over the years. (He did tell me before that sometimes you could go to the restroom and smell pot).
This list shows that like I always say, the majority of the good schools are in the Louisville MSA.
9/25 of the top 25 schools in the state or 36% of these schools are in the Louisville MSA. That is not counting the countless private schools which are superior to most of these and it leaves out nearly a third of the Louisville MSA (which is located in S Indiana and thus a different state). I can assure you that Floyd Central and probably even New Albany and Jeffersonville HS would be top 25 if located in KY. When you add those factors in, about half the decent schools in the Kentucky region are in the Louisville MSA.
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