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>Atlanta Public schools are pretty horrible What do you mean? APS mostly gets issues with disparity of performance (aka, the children of the rich people far ou

by gte910h 15y ago

>Atlanta Public schools are pretty horrible What do you mean? APS mostly gets issues with disparity of performance (aka, the children of the rich people far outperform the children of everyone else). Sure, there are bad ones. But don't live there: http://www.atlantapublicschools.us/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&ModuleInstanceID=738&ViewID=047E6BE3-6D87-4130-8424-D8E4E9ED6C2A&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=26568&PageID=1 http://www.atlantapublicschools.us/site/default.aspx?PageTyp... This explains why you may think the schools are bad: http://midtown.patch.com/articles/grady-high-school-one-step-above-georgia-s-worst-performing-schools http://midtown.patch.com/articles/grady-high-school-one-step... RE Grady (and others): "Focus schools are either for graduation rates lower than 60% or achievement gaps in achievement or graduation rate between the highest performing subgroup and the lowest performing subgroup. They are on it because of the gap on graduation rate between their highest subgroup and their lowest subgroup." Basically, lots of child performance in school is based on who your parents are, not what your school does.

learc83 15y ago
I was mainly talking about things like the recent widespread systemic cheating. 44 out of 56 schools were cheating on the CRCT. Edit: by things like that, I mean an environment where that large a percentage of schools feel pressured to cheat. I'm aware that state and federal rules and standardized tests are responsible for some of the pressure, but none of the other school systems in the metro-atlanta area had such wide spread cheating even though they were under the same state and federal pressures. I'm going to say there is something wrong with the way the school district is ran if 44/56 schools are cheating.
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- gte910h 15y ago
  It was shown in the governers report to be Barbra Hall and the principals doing the pressure. People who are quitting/being fired/etc right now. http://www.ajc.com/news/volume-1-of-special-1000798.html http://www.ajc.com/news/volume-1-of-special-1000798.html http://www.ajc.com/news/volume-2volume-2-of-special-1000571.html http://www.ajc.com/news/volume-2volume-2-of-special-1000571.... http://www.ajc.com/news/volume-3volume-3-conclusions-why-1000781.html http://www.ajc.com/news/volume-3volume-3-conclusions-why-100... It's actually a pretty interesting read, with testimony and specific allegations.
ak217 15y ago
Top Atlanta public schools' average SAT scores (http://www.city-data.com/forum/atlanta/1382712-top-10-metro-atlanta-high-schools.html#b http://www.city-data.com/forum/atlanta/1382712-top-10-metro-..., http://www.ajc.com/news/top-25-georgia-high-123297.html http://www.ajc.com/news/top-25-georgia-high-123297.html) top out below the level where top public schools for major California metropolitan areas start (http://projects.latimes.com/schools/sat-scores/ranking/page/1/ http://projects.latimes.com/schools/sat-scores/ranking/page/...).
- gte910h 15y ago
  You're saying "Atlanta" and meaning the "Metro Atlanta Area". He's saying "Atlanta" and meaning 'The City Limits of Atlanta where you can live in an walkable urban setting and not worry about driving everywhere'. Mean scores aren't as high for the APS schools: http://www.atlanta.k12.ga.us/domain/104 http://www.atlanta.k12.ga.us/domain/104

by gte910h 15y ago

learc83 15y ago

I was mainly talking about things like the recent widespread systemic cheating. 44 out of 56 schools were cheating on the CRCT. Edit: by things like that, I mean an environment where that large a percentage of schools feel pressured to cheat. I'm aware that state and federal rules and standardized tests are responsible for some of the pressure, but none of the other school systems in the metro-atlanta area had such wide spread cheating even though they were under the same state and federal pressures. I'm going to say there is something wrong with the way the school district is ran if 44/56 schools are cheating.

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gte910h 15y ago
It was shown in the governers report to be Barbra Hall and the principals doing the pressure. People who are quitting/being fired/etc right now. http://www.ajc.com/news/volume-1-of-special-1000798.html http://www.ajc.com/news/volume-1-of-special-1000798.html http://www.ajc.com/news/volume-2volume-2-of-special-1000571.html http://www.ajc.com/news/volume-2volume-2-of-special-1000571.... http://www.ajc.com/news/volume-3volume-3-conclusions-why-1000781.html http://www.ajc.com/news/volume-3volume-3-conclusions-why-100... It's actually a pretty interesting read, with testimony and specific allegations.

ak217 15y ago

Top Atlanta public schools' average SAT scores (http://www.city-data.com/forum/atlanta/1382712-top-10-metro-atlanta-high-schools.html#b http://www.city-data.com/forum/atlanta/1382712-top-10-metro-..., http://www.ajc.com/news/top-25-georgia-high-123297.html http://www.ajc.com/news/top-25-georgia-high-123297.html) top out below the level where top public schools for major California metropolitan areas start (http://projects.latimes.com/schools/sat-scores/ranking/page/1/ http://projects.latimes.com/schools/sat-scores/ranking/page/...).

gte910h 15y ago
You're saying "Atlanta" and meaning the "Metro Atlanta Area". He's saying "Atlanta" and meaning 'The City Limits of Atlanta where you can live in an walkable urban setting and not worry about driving everywhere'. Mean scores aren't as high for the APS schools: http://www.atlanta.k12.ga.us/domain/104 http://www.atlanta.k12.ga.us/domain/104