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Now I am even more confused. You went on about how good Mebane schools are, but have considered putting your child(ren) into a school that has children from Chapel Hill in it? Won't you get infected with the Chapel Hill Syndrome? Won't the parents that infect their children lead to your children having the Syndrome?
This all makes my head hurt.
Don't they test for reading comprehension down in Wake Co?
I said South Mebane Elementary was off the charts good.
It's a toss up right now between Cedar Ridge and Eastern Alamance. The principle then will determine the school culture..... and our choice....years from now.
For further reading on the subject of picking schools by means other than STATS I refer you to The Little Prince
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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It's a toss up right now between Cedar Ridge and Eastern Alamance. The principle then will determine the school culture..... and our choice....years from now.
Don't they teach spelling in Mebane? I think you mean principal (although at this point I'm so confused by your "wit", I'm not even sure).
Why are you people responding to this as if it were (a) lucent and (b) serious?
"Lucent was bought by AlcaTel quite some time back. Trades under the symbol 'ALU.' Still an empty LU building in Regency in Cary," he remarked, lucidly and seriously.
Well, in keeping with the proceedings, not all that seriously, but surely accurately.
He got his learnin' in a small cow-town school, as the school marms faded away, but before anyone did all this gobbledygook-just-for-the-sake-of-argument testing stuff...
Before we Chapel Hill residents start to pat ourselves on the back for the quality of our schools, let's keep in mind that output reports regarding student achievement in any given school do not tend to normalize for the inputs. Some of what is measured regarding Chapel Hill schools is the result of the quality of students they get - it's not solely a measure of what the schools are able to achieve with those students. That any one school has higher student achievement than another school is not necessarily proof of the quality of the school - it could as much be proof of the quality of the student.
Well, before living the last 3.5 years in Chapel Hill, we lived for 8 years in Durham where I sang the virtues of Forest View Elementary elsewhere in City-Data. So I don't have a Chapel Hill bias. Of course there is a self-selection bias going on when it comes to performance of CH-C schools/kids. But that's what makes 2BZ's claim about South Mebane Elementary that much more silly.
Sure - perfectly valid. Look at the data that's out there and determine if it is based on the things you are looking for for your child. But don't get fooled into thinking the "best school" is necessarily best for your child. For example, if you've got an "average" kid, does it matter how many AP courses they offer (which are a big factor in the magazine rankings)?
Of course it wouldn't matter if I had an "average" child. There are many factors that go into a quality education for any child. But I do not go into this with blinders on. I have a degree in education, I know what to look out for when it comes to my (imaginary) child.
It boggles my mind that this thread will hit 7 pages. Seven pages of nothing . . . sounds like a Seinfeld episode.
"I remember her name... Dolores!"
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.....course pointing it out is bad form....another thing they teach over here........
