2011 API scores are out

[bearishgurl]

[quote=walterwhite]API scores mean nothing.

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fuck the API score. meaningless….all that matters is whether you find your own way.[/quote]

X2

[an]

[quote=bearishgurl][quote=walterwhite]API scores mean nothing.

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fuck the API score. meaningless….all that matters is whether you find your own way.[/quote]

X2[/quote]
To those who say API scores mean nothing, have you guys/gals gone/or know someone who have gone to a school that have an API score of 1? My wife did and she can tell you endless stories of bad teachers, classmates who drop out due to pregnancies, gang activities. She and some of her friend survived and end up going to various top rated Universities and are successful today. Others didn’t fare so well. However, I wouldn’t want to take the risk and put my kids in that environment. API score is nothing more than a number that summarize the student body’s average academic performance. So, it means something, but it’s not going to make your dumb kid smart or make your smart kid dumb. Take it for what it is.

[an]

[quote=bearishgurl][quote=walterwhite]API scores mean nothing.

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fuck the API score. meaningless….all that matters is whether you find your own way.[/quote]

X2[/quote]
To those who say API scores mean nothing, have you guys/gals gone/or know someone who have gone to a school that have an API score of 1? My wife did and she can tell you endless stories of bad teachers, classmates who drop out due to pregnancies, gang activities. She and some of her friend survived and end up going to various top rated Universities and are successful today. Others didn’t fare so well. However, I wouldn’t want to take the risk and put my kids in that environment. API score is nothing more than a number that summarize the student body’s average academic performance. So, it means something, but it’s not going to make your dumb kid smart or make your smart kid dumb. Take it for what it is.

[sdrealtor]

BG, You’re kids attended elementary school years ago, under different budget constraints and in different school districts. Things are different now. Class sizes are different now. The teachers in our school are just as senior. My sons 6th grade teacher is teaching her 35th 6 grade class this year. Is that senior enough for you? She teaches every single subject and the kids dont rotate. In previous years there were some rotations but students were not tracked, they traveled as a class.

I never said there were parents in all classes, I said there were parent volunteers in my kids classes. Many of them, every day doing hands on work. Giving tests, grade papers, assembling assignment packages, running math centers and more. These parents are highly educated and competent. They allow the teachers to focus on the more important things they have to do which is teaching kids.

As for what my son is doing, it has to do with the calibur of kids he is around and the level of things they are doing. Lots of kids play video games but that isnt just what they are doing. They are learning to do things at a very high level, working collaboratively on it together. It is an amazing thing to watch.

[sdrealtor]

BG, You’re kids attended elementary school years ago, under different budget constraints and in different school districts. Things are different now. Class sizes are different now. The teachers in our school are just as senior. My sons 6th grade teacher is teaching her 35th 6 grade class this year. Is that senior enough for you? She teaches every single subject and the kids dont rotate. In previous years there were some rotations but students were not tracked, they traveled as a class.

I never said there were parents in all classes, I said there were parent volunteers in my kids classes. Many of them, every day doing hands on work. Giving tests, grade papers, assembling assignment packages, running math centers and more. These parents are highly educated and competent. They allow the teachers to focus on the more important things they have to do which is teaching kids.

As for what my son is doing, it has to do with the calibur of kids he is around and the level of things they are doing. Lots of kids play video games but that isnt just what they are doing. They are learning to do things at a very high level, working collaboratively on it together. It is an amazing thing to watch.

[sdrealtor]

[quote=bearishgurl][quote=walterwhite]API scores mean nothing.

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fuck the API score. meaningless….all that matters is whether you find your own way.[/quote]

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BG
You are a moron. Don’t you know that 99% of scaredy’s posts are mocking us? He’s toying with us and you are one of the people foolish enough to bite on his bait over and over again.

[sdrealtor]

[quote=bearishgurl][quote=walterwhite]API scores mean nothing.

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fuck the API score. meaningless….all that matters is whether you find your own way.[/quote]

X2[/quote]

BG
You are a moron. Don’t you know that 99% of scaredy’s posts are mocking us? He’s toying with us and you are one of the people foolish enough to bite on his bait over and over again.

[ocrenter]

[quote=sdrealtor][quote=bearishgurl][quote=walterwhite]API scores mean nothing.

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fuck the API score. meaningless….all that matters is whether you find your own way.[/quote]

X2[/quote]

BG
You are a moron. Don’t you know that 99% of scaredy’s posts are mocking us? He’s toying with us and you are one of the people foolish enough to bite on his bait over and over again.[/quote]

Even the name “scaredy” is a self mocking name. He is straight up from that tried and true Jewish School of Humor that we love so much.

[ocrenter]

[quote=sdrealtor][quote=bearishgurl][quote=walterwhite]API scores mean nothing.

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fuck the API score. meaningless….all that matters is whether you find your own way.[/quote]

X2[/quote]

BG
You are a moron. Don’t you know that 99% of scaredy’s posts are mocking us? He’s toying with us and you are one of the people foolish enough to bite on his bait over and over again.[/quote]

Even the name “scaredy” is a self mocking name. He is straight up from that tried and true Jewish School of Humor that we love so much.

[sdrealtor]

Exactly! His posts are meant to get people to laugh and then then look at things differently. Anyone who posts a “X2” to one of his posts just doesnt get it.

[bearishgurl]

Back to the Pigg “grindstone” this morning before I get ready for my trip this wknd, lol….

sdr, you keep avoiding the obvious. How’s about we discuss those HS scores in your “gridlocked nirvana” now? The Piggs want to know how all the “amazing, quality” kids (who presumably have every advantage) did on their CACI’s in relation to the other “top” HS’s in the county.

Why don’t you start with your stomping ground …. drumroll….

……..Carlsbad, CA??

[sdrealtor]

BG
If you dont get the joke you are the joke.

I covered LCC about 50 posts ago

[Coronita]

I think there is a difference between if school X and school Y have a huge disparity in scores. BUT, if they’re within a 50 or so points, I don’t see it necessarily that much worse. What is interesting to me is SD in general seemed to have improved overall.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=AN]…To those who say API scores mean nothing, have you guys/gals gone/or know someone who have gone to a school that have an API score of 1? My wife did and she can tell you endless stories of bad teachers, classmates who drop out due to pregnancies, gang activities. She and some of her friend survived and end up going to various top rated Universities and are successful today. Others didn’t fare so well. However, I wouldn’t want to take the risk and put my kids in that environment. API score is nothing more than a number that summarize the student body’s average academic performance. So, it means something, but it’s not going to make your dumb kid smart or make your smart kid dumb, would you? Take it for what it is.[/quote]

Actually, I have known MANY successful people who graduated from HS’s all over the city and county, AN, including Morse, Crawford, Hoover, Lincoln, Southwest, Montgomery, Castle Park, Sweetwater, Mt Miguel, El Cajon Valley, Helix, etc.

Is your spouse successful now, AN? Does she have a successful career? Was she able to get into college and get a degree? You seem to be fairly intelligent so it stands to reason that you wouldn’t marry someone who was “dumb,” would you?

It sounds as if your spouse’s HS was rated a “1” that the tests either weren’t administered at her school or only administered to a handful of students. Did you ever think that perhaps there might be a math or procedural error there?

I agree that API “means something” but what it means for HS is that 10th grade English, Math and History teachers are teaching students using rote memorization techniques to the test and nothing more. The grilling is so intense and concentrated in the weeks before the tests are administered that it is almost akin to the CACI’s being “open-book” exams, lol! The outcome of these tests has literally represented schools’ “bread and butter” for the last dozen years or so, economically speaking. And these teachers all KNOW which side of their bread is buttered on. They didn’t fall off of an onion truck yesterday.

It is what it is. The fundamental point I was trying to make on this thread is, how much $$ (over and above a same or similar property in a different-but-not-worse area) are these “scores” worth to a family? How much cash outlay every month and year should a family put towards chasing these scores? And is an area really a “worse” area just because its area school(s) score lower than others??

Why would a “well-connected” neighbor or friend of your child be necessarily “qualified” to help your child with schoolwork just by virtue of residing in a particular zip code? Has anyone ever considered that there might be top-notch tutoring/mentoring programs available for children residing in lower-income areas who actually ARE qualified to tutor and help with homework?? For instance:

http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/students/03-28HelpingSudents.asp

http://www.sdmentorcoalition.org/sd_program_list.pdf

Since this is a RE-oriented blog, the points I brought up here were intended to be thought-provoking, but I now see they garnered some juvenile “wtf” defensive ramble about the perceived “quality” of a student/child’s classmates and the need for 4th graders to become “well-connected” at the age of nine (to adults??) in order to become successful in life. Considering the source, I don’t take it seriously, lol…

[bearishgurl]

[quote=sdrealtor]BG
If you dont get the joke you are the joke.

I covered LCC about 50 posts ago[/quote]

[quote=sdrealtor]…When you look at LCC the hispanics score 685 as they are typically from the long time bario areas in Leucadia, Cardiff and Encinitas. The typical upwardly mobile hispanic family cant afford to purchase new homes in this area. In SM newer home prices have become affordable for upwardly mobile hispanic families and theirs scores 785. The white population at SM High comes predominantly from the new developments as well and their scores are 914. Whereas at LCC you get alot of the skater/surfer dude population near the beaches who think school isnt cool so they pull the scores down to 844…[/quote]

Is THIS the rationalizing joke-of-a-passage you’re referring to here, sdr?? Maybe you should run for public office. You’re certainly showing potential talent here to “fake it ’til you make it” on the campaign-trail stump, lol…

Are you trying to make excuses for all those quality students who hail from “beautiful people” families who “have it all” in NCC??

Somebody has to do it….How about we just get down to brass tacks here.

Carlsbad High – Carlsbad Unified API 829
La Costa Canyon High – San Dieguito Union API 818

So where are these schools rated in comparison to all the other high schools in the county?? THIS is the $64M question here.

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