I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: my son is about to graduate with an engineering degree from a Cal State in noCal. His closest circle of friends have beat him to the punch and graduated with engineering degrees from UCSD, Berkeley, Davis, Sac and Chico. All are doing mighty fine for 20 somethings. I know, they come by our house and visit. All are products of SMHS (and all fall into the non-hispanic white category quoted, not that it matters to me).

Those who pay the extra bucks for other school districts are doing so for nothing. But hey, if they sleep better at night, that’s their right.

Us San Marconians know the real score and are perfectly content flying under the radar.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: my son is about to graduate with an engineering degree from a Cal State in noCal. His closest circle of friends have beat him to the punch and graduated with engineering degrees from UCSD, Berkeley, Davis, Sac and Chico. All are doing mighty fine for 20 somethings. I know, they come by our house and visit. All are products of SMHS (and all fall into the non-hispanic white category quoted, not that it matters to me).

Those who pay the extra bucks for other school districts are doing so for nothing. But hey, if they sleep better at night, that’s their right.

Us San Marconians know the real score and are perfectly content flying under the radar.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: my son is about to graduate with an engineering degree from a Cal State in noCal. His closest circle of friends have beat him to the punch and graduated with engineering degrees from UCSD, Berkeley, Davis, Sac and Chico. All are doing mighty fine for 20 somethings. I know, they come by our house and visit. All are products of SMHS (and all fall into the non-hispanic white category quoted, not that it matters to me).

Those who pay the extra bucks for other school districts are doing so for nothing. But hey, if they sleep better at night, that’s their right.

Us San Marconians know the real score and are perfectly content flying under the radar.

[quote=outtamojo]So what would it take to remove whatever stigma San Marcos schools have?(it can’t be the API numbers; the but…birds will have to find something else!).[/quote]
I don’t know if you can remove the stigma very easily. You probably need a a decade or so of constant 10 API score before it might change. One of the main reason why I say that is because I use Mira Mesa as a prime example. MMHS has been ranked 8-9 for the last 11 years (since the start of the API score). Yet, there’s still a sigma against MM as having bad school.

One interesting I noticed about San Marcos school is, the HS actually score better than the MS. I usually see it the other way around. Also, if you go back further than this last year, you’ll see SMHS has been increasing their API score. Before 2007, it was only ranked 5-6.

[quote=outtamojo]So what would it take to remove whatever stigma San Marcos schools have?(it can’t be the API numbers; the but…birds will have to find something else!).[/quote]
I don’t know if you can remove the stigma very easily. You probably need a a decade or so of constant 10 API score before it might change. One of the main reason why I say that is because I use Mira Mesa as a prime example. MMHS has been ranked 8-9 for the last 11 years (since the start of the API score). Yet, there’s still a sigma against MM as having bad school.

One interesting I noticed about San Marcos school is, the HS actually score better than the MS. I usually see it the other way around. Also, if you go back further than this last year, you’ll see SMHS has been increasing their API score. Before 2007, it was only ranked 5-6.