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Cary’s schools are Wake County schools….they don’t have their own district.
This is different then most places up North….school systems are county wide…not just a small section/city/township.
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Here I must disagree...
yes the schools are county wide but, unless you are lucky enough to get into magnet, if you want foreign languages, orchestra & band, & electives, you have to go to Cary, Apex or N Raleigh, b/c for ** some reason** you won't get them in the outlying parts of Wake County.
Hey Saturnfan, my Mom's from Brooklyn--she grew up on Ave U. My aunt and cousins stayed in Brooklyn (Sheepshead Bay) until 1978 and the kids went to Sheepshead Bay HS. I understand you wouldn't want to go near the place now but back then it wasn't bad.
yes the schools are county wide but, unless you are lucky enough to get into magnet, if you want foreign languages, orchestra & band, & electives, you have to go to Cary, Apex or N Raleigh, b/c for ** some reason** you won't get them in the outlying parts of Wake County.
There are plenty of schools in Cary that don't have these options either. Most schools in Cary are traditional curriculum schools offering very few, if any electives. My daughter's Cary middle had no foreign language and one elective per day. The elective offerings were pretty slim pickings.
My parents were from Brooklyn, but a part that you don't want to enter now w/o an Abrams Fighting Vehicle. Mom's home was 309 Atkins Ave, East New York, near Pitkin Ave. Dad was an NYC cabbie and we would shop at the pushcarts on Pitkin Sundays.
After WWII, parents moved to Grand Concourse, Bronx, where I was born. in 1949, dad got a VA loan to buy 21 Sunnybrook Dr W in Oceanside.
Oceanside history can be found on a really neat website kept up by howie Levy (now in Vegas).
Try here for some great Oceanside and Nathan's history Moderator cut: url removed
Thanks for sharing.
Yea Brooklyn!
Last edited by autumngal; 04-04-2008 at 06:54 AM..
There are plenty of schools in Cary that don't have these options either. Most schools in Cary are traditional curriculum schools offering very few, if any electives. My daughter's Cary middle had no foreign language and one elective per day. The elective offerings were pretty slim pickings.
Sorry to hear that. I was basing my info on what parents from specific schools in those areas told me. I had heard that some schools there have more to offer than others.
I have a neighbor who is from Cary & is Very Upset re: the offerings here in Wake Forest- she thought she would get similar things to what she had left.h
I would really like it if the wcpss site would give us info on where exactly these course are offered. I can't imagine that happening!
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