Anyone move back from NC?

[Tom Lennox 70]

What's this thing with a 12-month school year for kids in Raleigh? Am I reading this wrong?!?!?!?!?!!?

[MDguySC]

autimom... the schools in SC are under TREMENDOUS ammounts of pressure to meet those scores! We lived in Charleston for 4 years and my girlfriend taught in the Rock Hill / Lancaster area and in Charleston and the schools are VERY concerned with their scores because they're so low! And the graduation rates too! In fact, my brother and I (both from Montgomery County) feel like we weren't under as much pressure, as compared to my girlfriend who is from there and is a product of the schools (and taught there recently too) and says that the curriculum and the education here is LEAPS AND BOUNDS better than those in SC! And she's a native and she had first-hand expericnce. The teachers are put under a LOT of pressure to make those kids and their scores improve that they focus solely on the scores and tests and abandon material that should otherwise be covered, whereas that still happens here, but they teach other things in the curriculum too!

If you're going to put your kids in the God-awful, hideous and failing schools there, then York District 3 is the best option. Charlotte schools are horrible too, so the options aren't that great. Raleigh, however, has descent schools, but they're nothing like those in MD...

Hope this helps...

Let me know if you have any questions, and we will be glad to answer them...

[smash731]

My parents (Howard County) are leaving in a few years because of BGE/property taxes/traffic. They are moving to half time in Garrett County and half time in rural Florida. I am already in Florida for school and am trying to stop them...they won't know what to do with themselves without professional sports, good shopping, etc. Maryland stops seeming so bad once you live out in the cheap sticks. You get what you pay for. For what it's worth, a lot of Floridians are moving to NC to get away from the "yankees" invading Florida, but I don't know any Marylanders leaving for NC.

[Tom Lennox 70]

Originally Posted by smash731

My parents (Howard County) are leaving in a few years because of BGE/property taxes/traffic. They are moving to half time in Garrett County and half time in rural Florida. I am already in Florida for school and am trying to stop them...they won't know what to do with themselves without professional sports, good shopping, etc. Maryland stops seeming so bad once you live out in the cheap sticks. You get what you pay for. For what it's worth, a lot of Floridians are moving to NC to get away from the "yankees" invading Florida, but I don't know any Marylanders leaving for NC.

LOl Yankees are invading Maryland and North Carolina! Both. Native people in Maryland and Virginia are very friendly but its the newcomers, most of them from the New York and Philly areas, give us a bad name and have changed so much in this area, in DC especially and around Baltimore to a lesser extent. But we also have a lot of people moving here from parts of Pennsylvania besides PHilly and they're pretty decent, pleasant folks.

Maybe New Yorkers should really think about what is it about them that makes people want to avoid them?

[RoadTripGurl]

Terp lets not start a world war!
I have to agree with what you said. This area is getting a lot of transplants, and the culture of most of this area has changed dramatically. My mother always referred to New Yorkers as "uncoithed" people, I guess because being down here most of our lives its' a shock to go somewhere else more aggressive and fast paced. Sadly, we are turning into the northern culture of overcrowding, aggressive, fast paced... Even natives will turn agry with frustration and discomformt from the crowding.