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No surprises in our very top schools as reported today in Newsday:
There are 15 Nassau County schools on the list, including nine in the top 500: Jericho, Manhasset, Great Neck South, Garden City, Herricks, Roslyn, Syosset, North Shore and Great Neck North high schools.
In Suffolk County, two made the top 500: Cold Spring Harbor and Harborfields high schools.
I've never even heard of the highest ranked NY school, Townsend Harris High in Flushing.
And its #12 nationally.
Have no idea how they rank schools, but I know the top US news top hospital ranking is just a popularity poll.
Because my highly ranked hospital business suit admin drones forces every doctor in our system to take the US news poll and rank our hospital number #1. They literally come to us with an IPAD and force us to take and poll and make sure we rank our hospital #1. And because we have so many docs in our large system, this results in our yearly top ten national honor roll.
I've never even heard of the highest ranked NY school, Townsend Harris High in Flushing.
And its #12 nationally.
Have no idea how they rank schools, but I know the top US news top hospital ranking is just a popularity poll.
Because my highly ranked hospital business suit admin drones forces every doctor in our system to take the US news poll and rank our hospital number #1. They literally come to us with an IPAD and force us to take and poll and make sure we rank our hospital #1. And because we have so many docs in our large system, this results in our yearly top ten national honor roll.
Townsend is a test in school. Like the hospitals this is the same, but people love this crap. How can you rate SD, you have the specialty HS in NYC and around the country that only take the best of the best due to the admissions process. How can you compare to a public HS that servers every one. My district just missed the the top 500 at 502, I don't care. I'm sure they will hold it against us with the upcoming school budget.
You also have principals who just live for this stuff. I worked as a TA for a year and a half, all the principal (who came in after I started) cared about was how they looked compared to another elementary school. It was funny because it was the school my kids went to and all she did was talk crap about it. I felt like saying the staff is happy there and half of yours is leaving as soon as they can transfer, soooooo..... Only good thing was she spurred me to go out and get a better job because I could not keep working for her.
They neatly omit spend per student. Dollar for dollar you'll find we kind of suck donkey. But no one cares to believe that. It spoils the fantasy.
Shhhh, careful, you'll ruin everyone's illusions that the only way to have good public schools is to pay outrageous taxes. Meanwhile the high school I went to back in the south ranked higher than any school on Long Island, and property taxes at my mother's house are still around $1,700 a year.
I moved here so my kids don't get stabbed in the nyc public school system.
Too funny. The doctors and lawyers seem to have come from those "scary" borough schools. The cops and teachers, products of the glorious LI ponzi-cation system.
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