fixation on school districts

[an]

Seems like a lot of people here are against allowing parents to have choices to move their kids to better public schools. Do you guys know that it’s already possible to do that, through inter-district and intra-district transfer? You have to jump through hoops to do it, but it’s possible. The country that was rated with the best public school system (Finland) have a voucher system. It forces schools to compete for the money that follow the student. This also open up for charter schools and private schools as a choice to middle & low income students. To those who thinks students from low income students can’t do well, you might want to check out Preuss School UCSD.

[DWCAP]

I went to a private Catholic High school and we had plenty of kids in my class without the financial resources that my parents gave me. They were driven, dedicated, and smart as hell and they came from backrounds that can only be described as “poor”. They got scholerships, and they succeded. My class had 100% college attendance, though only a few were to Ivy league. Most were UC, some CSU, and the rest to places like pepperdine and texas christian. So when I hear things like genetics make the student I think BS, because drive and desire will trump any slight disadvantage from not having a PHd parent. I have seen it in action.

Just a few other points:

1) when the UC system takes the top 7.5% of each class, maybe it is a good idea to send your kid to a very good, but not the best, school and let them be top ten in the class instead of top ten percent?
(UC system being one of the most presdegious in the world.)

2)Public schools inability to teach a student without raping the tax payers is terrible. My old HS taught a student for 60-70% of the public schools, and I only know one kid who had to drop out, and that was due to stress because she was a prefectionist.

3) I totally agree with the statements about parental desire for an education relating to a kids and therefore school performance. The best students, assuming normal human intellengence, are those that are driven, and in most cases that drive comes from the parents. Bad schools need alot more parents and alot less lawyer/political excuse reasoning.

[DWCAP]

I went to a private Catholic High school and we had plenty of kids in my class without the financial resources that my parents gave me. They were driven, dedicated, and smart as hell and they came from backrounds that can only be described as “poor”. They got scholerships, and they succeded. My class had 100% college attendance, though only a few were to Ivy league. Most were UC, some CSU, and the rest to places like pepperdine and texas christian. So when I hear things like genetics make the student I think BS, because drive and desire will trump any slight disadvantage from not having a PHd parent. I have seen it in action.

Just a few other points:

1) when the UC system takes the top 7.5% of each class, maybe it is a good idea to send your kid to a very good, but not the best, school and let them be top ten in the class instead of top ten percent?
(UC system being one of the most presdegious in the world.)

2)Public schools inability to teach a student without raping the tax payers is terrible. My old HS taught a student for 60-70% of the public schools, and I only know one kid who had to drop out, and that was due to stress because she was a prefectionist.

3) I totally agree with the statements about parental desire for an education relating to a kids and therefore school performance. The best students, assuming normal human intellengence, are those that are driven, and in most cases that drive comes from the parents. Bad schools need alot more parents and alot less lawyer/political excuse reasoning.

[DWCAP]

I went to a private Catholic High school and we had plenty of kids in my class without the financial resources that my parents gave me. They were driven, dedicated, and smart as hell and they came from backrounds that can only be described as “poor”. They got scholerships, and they succeded. My class had 100% college attendance, though only a few were to Ivy league. Most were UC, some CSU, and the rest to places like pepperdine and texas christian. So when I hear things like genetics make the student I think BS, because drive and desire will trump any slight disadvantage from not having a PHd parent. I have seen it in action.

Just a few other points:

1) when the UC system takes the top 7.5% of each class, maybe it is a good idea to send your kid to a very good, but not the best, school and let them be top ten in the class instead of top ten percent?
(UC system being one of the most presdegious in the world.)

2)Public schools inability to teach a student without raping the tax payers is terrible. My old HS taught a student for 60-70% of the public schools, and I only know one kid who had to drop out, and that was due to stress because she was a prefectionist.

3) I totally agree with the statements about parental desire for an education relating to a kids and therefore school performance. The best students, assuming normal human intellengence, are those that are driven, and in most cases that drive comes from the parents. Bad schools need alot more parents and alot less lawyer/political excuse reasoning.

[DWCAP]

I went to a private Catholic High school and we had plenty of kids in my class without the financial resources that my parents gave me. They were driven, dedicated, and smart as hell and they came from backrounds that can only be described as “poor”. They got scholerships, and they succeded. My class had 100% college attendance, though only a few were to Ivy league. Most were UC, some CSU, and the rest to places like pepperdine and texas christian. So when I hear things like genetics make the student I think BS, because drive and desire will trump any slight disadvantage from not having a PHd parent. I have seen it in action.

Just a few other points:

1) when the UC system takes the top 7.5% of each class, maybe it is a good idea to send your kid to a very good, but not the best, school and let them be top ten in the class instead of top ten percent?
(UC system being one of the most presdegious in the world.)

2)Public schools inability to teach a student without raping the tax payers is terrible. My old HS taught a student for 60-70% of the public schools, and I only know one kid who had to drop out, and that was due to stress because she was a prefectionist.

3) I totally agree with the statements about parental desire for an education relating to a kids and therefore school performance. The best students, assuming normal human intellengence, are those that are driven, and in most cases that drive comes from the parents. Bad schools need alot more parents and alot less lawyer/political excuse reasoning.

[DWCAP]

I went to a private Catholic High school and we had plenty of kids in my class without the financial resources that my parents gave me. They were driven, dedicated, and smart as hell and they came from backrounds that can only be described as “poor”. They got scholerships, and they succeded. My class had 100% college attendance, though only a few were to Ivy league. Most were UC, some CSU, and the rest to places like pepperdine and texas christian. So when I hear things like genetics make the student I think BS, because drive and desire will trump any slight disadvantage from not having a PHd parent. I have seen it in action.

Just a few other points:

1) when the UC system takes the top 7.5% of each class, maybe it is a good idea to send your kid to a very good, but not the best, school and let them be top ten in the class instead of top ten percent?
(UC system being one of the most presdegious in the world.)

2)Public schools inability to teach a student without raping the tax payers is terrible. My old HS taught a student for 60-70% of the public schools, and I only know one kid who had to drop out, and that was due to stress because she was a prefectionist.

3) I totally agree with the statements about parental desire for an education relating to a kids and therefore school performance. The best students, assuming normal human intellengence, are those that are driven, and in most cases that drive comes from the parents. Bad schools need alot more parents and alot less lawyer/political excuse reasoning.

[Eugene]

Some interesting API observations.

“2008 Growth API” of non-hispanic whites in Monterey Ridge Elementary (4S Ranch north of Camino Del Norte) (904) is lower than API of non-hispanic whites in L.R.Green Elementary (southeast Escondido) (909); San Elijo Elementary (916); and Knob Hill Elementary (northeast San Marcos) (922).

16% of students in Monterey Ridge Elementary are “socioeconomically disadvantaged”. How can you be socioeconomically disadvantaged and live in 4S Ranch at the same time? What’s going on?

[Eugene]

Some interesting API observations.

“2008 Growth API” of non-hispanic whites in Monterey Ridge Elementary (4S Ranch north of Camino Del Norte) (904) is lower than API of non-hispanic whites in L.R.Green Elementary (southeast Escondido) (909); San Elijo Elementary (916); and Knob Hill Elementary (northeast San Marcos) (922).

16% of students in Monterey Ridge Elementary are “socioeconomically disadvantaged”. How can you be socioeconomically disadvantaged and live in 4S Ranch at the same time? What’s going on?

[Eugene]

Some interesting API observations.

“2008 Growth API” of non-hispanic whites in Monterey Ridge Elementary (4S Ranch north of Camino Del Norte) (904) is lower than API of non-hispanic whites in L.R.Green Elementary (southeast Escondido) (909); San Elijo Elementary (916); and Knob Hill Elementary (northeast San Marcos) (922).

16% of students in Monterey Ridge Elementary are “socioeconomically disadvantaged”. How can you be socioeconomically disadvantaged and live in 4S Ranch at the same time? What’s going on?

[Eugene]

Some interesting API observations.

“2008 Growth API” of non-hispanic whites in Monterey Ridge Elementary (4S Ranch north of Camino Del Norte) (904) is lower than API of non-hispanic whites in L.R.Green Elementary (southeast Escondido) (909); San Elijo Elementary (916); and Knob Hill Elementary (northeast San Marcos) (922).

16% of students in Monterey Ridge Elementary are “socioeconomically disadvantaged”. How can you be socioeconomically disadvantaged and live in 4S Ranch at the same time? What’s going on?

[Eugene]

Some interesting API observations.

“2008 Growth API” of non-hispanic whites in Monterey Ridge Elementary (4S Ranch north of Camino Del Norte) (904) is lower than API of non-hispanic whites in L.R.Green Elementary (southeast Escondido) (909); San Elijo Elementary (916); and Knob Hill Elementary (northeast San Marcos) (922).

16% of students in Monterey Ridge Elementary are “socioeconomically disadvantaged”. How can you be socioeconomically disadvantaged and live in 4S Ranch at the same time? What’s going on?

[an]

[quote=esmith]Some interesting API observations.

“2008 Growth API” of non-hispanic whites in Monterey Ridge Elementary (4S Ranch north of Camino Del Norte) (904) is lower than API of non-hispanic whites in L.R.Green Elementary (southeast Escondido) (909); San Elijo Elementary (916); and Knob Hill Elementary (northeast San Marcos) (922).

16% of students in Monterey Ridge Elementary are “socioeconomically disadvantaged”. How can you be socioeconomically disadvantaged and live in 4S Ranch at the same time? What’s going on?[/quote]
Also, Sandburg Elementary (Mira Mesa) (908). One interesting statistic is, “Social-Economically Disadvantaged” in Sandburg score (838) while “Social-Economically Disadvantaged” in Monterey Ridge Elementary is (771).

[an]

[quote=esmith]Some interesting API observations.

“2008 Growth API” of non-hispanic whites in Monterey Ridge Elementary (4S Ranch north of Camino Del Norte) (904) is lower than API of non-hispanic whites in L.R.Green Elementary (southeast Escondido) (909); San Elijo Elementary (916); and Knob Hill Elementary (northeast San Marcos) (922).

16% of students in Monterey Ridge Elementary are “socioeconomically disadvantaged”. How can you be socioeconomically disadvantaged and live in 4S Ranch at the same time? What’s going on?[/quote]
Also, Sandburg Elementary (Mira Mesa) (908). One interesting statistic is, “Social-Economically Disadvantaged” in Sandburg score (838) while “Social-Economically Disadvantaged” in Monterey Ridge Elementary is (771).

[an]

[quote=esmith]Some interesting API observations.

“2008 Growth API” of non-hispanic whites in Monterey Ridge Elementary (4S Ranch north of Camino Del Norte) (904) is lower than API of non-hispanic whites in L.R.Green Elementary (southeast Escondido) (909); San Elijo Elementary (916); and Knob Hill Elementary (northeast San Marcos) (922).

16% of students in Monterey Ridge Elementary are “socioeconomically disadvantaged”. How can you be socioeconomically disadvantaged and live in 4S Ranch at the same time? What’s going on?[/quote]
Also, Sandburg Elementary (Mira Mesa) (908). One interesting statistic is, “Social-Economically Disadvantaged” in Sandburg score (838) while “Social-Economically Disadvantaged” in Monterey Ridge Elementary is (771).

[an]

[quote=esmith]Some interesting API observations.

“2008 Growth API” of non-hispanic whites in Monterey Ridge Elementary (4S Ranch north of Camino Del Norte) (904) is lower than API of non-hispanic whites in L.R.Green Elementary (southeast Escondido) (909); San Elijo Elementary (916); and Knob Hill Elementary (northeast San Marcos) (922).

16% of students in Monterey Ridge Elementary are “socioeconomically disadvantaged”. How can you be socioeconomically disadvantaged and live in 4S Ranch at the same time? What’s going on?[/quote]
Also, Sandburg Elementary (Mira Mesa) (908). One interesting statistic is, “Social-Economically Disadvantaged” in Sandburg score (838) while “Social-Economically Disadvantaged” in Monterey Ridge Elementary is (771).

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