9th Grade Center for Panther Creek HS - info anyone?
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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Joy. My eldest attends Panther Creek and I assumed I'd send the next two there since #2 will overlap with #1, and #3 with #2. Guess I'll be shooting for the Green Hope feeder pattern instead.
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Ha! They've been behind the curve since I was a kid in school here in the 70s.
lol yeah, ever since we've been in the area they've been playing catch up with school building. I remember when the Leesville school complex was supposed to solve the overcrowding woes of that side of Raleigh. And then those schools took what, 2 years to become overcrowded themselves?
Joy. My eldest attends Panther Creek and I assumed I'd send the next two there since #2 will overlap with #1, and #3 with #2. Guess I'll be shooting for the Green Hope feeder pattern instead.
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Anne...I'm starting to think they're out to get you....
If you made the building a little high school unto itself, wouldn't you need to offer recreational opportunities? Would parents expect a football team?! I don't know what the regs are, but I can imagine that it would cost more to mount a full-scale high school, even if on a smaller scale, because you would have to diversify the course offerings to such an extent that extra teachers would need to be hired.
It would be interesting to see how having an off-site center affects staffing for positions such as guidance counselors, food service workers/custodians, media specialists, etc. You could have them rotating in from the main campus, but some folks would ALWAYS be needed at both places. Perhaps some teachers could be shared such as language or art teachers.
Does anyone have knowledge of how this has been handled at other 9th grade centers?
I agree that overcrowding needs to be addressed at Panther Creek - I'm just wary of the Morrisville solution based on what little I know so far.
LOL, no actually, not everyone needs a football team. I was thinking of Raleigh Charter High...it has limited extracurriculars but many do not see that as a detriment to a good education.
I guess I wasn't assuming that the staff would have to be the same. Panther creek is plenty big...the other campus could be a school in it's own right, not a step child. Given the distance, busing kids and rotating staff can't be cost effective either.
Oh....sort of. That is, I hear conflicting reports. So I wanted to be able to have the option to send #2 along with #1 to be at the same high school. We like PCHS a lot, aside from the race wars and drug problems (which seem pretty mild compared to what they could be and those are just second hand reports).
annesg, I hear you. My son is just starting kindergarten this year, and we got into a magnet which feeds into Ligon and Enloe. I have always heard GREAT things about those schools and was really excited when I first found out. Now it seems I am hearing more mixed reviews. I am going ahead and starting him out on that path though, because as we get closer to the high school years it will be harder to get him into the magnet (Maybe impossible), but we can always pull him out. I am starting to think that while "choice" sounds great on paper, too much choice can wreak its own havoc on people's lives!
I worked at the 9th grade center at Wake Forest/Rolesville High School a few years ago and I thought it was great for the students. Because high school can be very large and overwhelming for many students, having a campus for just 9th graders made the kids bond with each other quicker b/c there were less distractions and less drama. At the 9th grade center there was an office, a small library, and a small cafeteria. There was an assistant prinicipal who was in charge of the 9th grade center whose office was located on that campus as well as their own counselors. If the students were involved in sports or after-school activities there was a bus that ran to the main campus after school. I also worked at the main campus and saw no ill effects once they became 10th graders and acclimated in with the other students at the main campus.
It almost felt like a small private school within a high school where the staff could tailor the needs of kids to prepare them for high school!
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