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Congratulations Dot, Susan, Walter -

Southwest High School is now in the BOTTOM 5 high schools in the district!!!!

You wanted Southwest, Central, and Andrews to be more alike - and you got it!!!!

You must be proud!

Wait - I've got to go - the moving truck is in my driveway - you won't have this yankee's kids in your precious High Point schools anymore!

Am I reading the AYP results correctly when I see that SCALE-High Point passed the grade?????????

Where is this school located?????????????

How many students attend????????

What were their 2 target goals??????????

I SMELL a FISH.........

High School Results

The district's efforts to establish small, non-traditional high schools are showing positive results as The Early College at Guilford , Middle College at GTCC, Middle College at GTCC East, High Point GTCC Middle College and Greensboro Middle College are five out of the seven high schools making AYP this year.

Excuse me, but is this a marker of success when these are five of the seven high schools making AYP? So, does that mean that only two traditional high schools made AYP this year? Oh, yeah, Dr. Fix-it sure can show the way in turnimg around schools. How many total students do these five non-traditional schools represent out of the total thousands? It would seem that we are declaring victory in the small, non-trasitional schools, but are retreating from the battlefield of defeat with the larger, traditional schools. Is it possible that we can break them down into about 200 small schools and succeed?

Dot, Susan and Walter (The Three Stooges of Public Education),,,,,,Please Resign Now!!!!!!!!!

Schools in High Point SUCK in comparison to the rest of Guilford County....

Dot,,,,Socialism has failed in most of the world and you are now proving that it will not work in Public Education...

Susan,,,Thank the lord that your days in Office are numbered,,,your legacy will be that of a "SOLD-OUT LOSER".....

And WALTER,,,,Wake Up Man!!!!!!!Dot and Susan have been playing you like a Fiddle,,,,have you seen any improvement at Andrews ?????????
NO !!!!!!!!!

Walter,,,,,Dot or Susan could give a Rats' about Andrews,,,,Central is their only Concern,,,,Look what they have done to a once successful Southwest High School.....
Walter,,,Come To Buddy,,,,Stand on your own two feet and make a stand to improve Andrews instead of being mislead by a couple of Bungling Bleached Blondes with an Emerywood Revitlization agenda as their Sole Goal....

Changes Must be Made!!!!

give the man a raise.

grab a fat woman and let's boogie
let's spin some 45s
pop a bottle of bubbly, for
grier has delivered
give the man a raise
scores are up
a joyous time for all
hats off to a man of vision
next year will be even better
his reforms are getting results, in spite of
the efforts of certain groups in high point to
derail the efforts of such selfless intentions.

Where are you finding Southwest High School listed?

Looking at this data Smith and Dudley have done much better than Andrews or Central. Especially Smith.
Smith has met 82% of its goals. Looks good until you think about that it only passes 50% of its children.

I might be stupid but to me that is what is most important. Children on or above Grade level. Where can we see this data and compare it to last year?

truth,

Go to ncpublicschools.org and click on the ABCs section, under "choose program" search.

The page that pops up has ABCs info, but in kind of the bottom right corner is a link to AYP historical data.

So it only goes from 02-03 to 04-05 at this point. It is more detailed and you can compare year to year by school.

Well based on these test scores it appears that my work here is done. I have managed to screw NHP's kids into the ground one way or the other.

I am rather envious that NHP is getting itw own stand alone ABC store. I've learned all my Math skills out of the bottom of a Scotch bottle, I suggest you study just as hard, or marry up and keep a good lawyer on retainer.

I've got to go now, my driver Walter just pulled up.

FLIM-FLAMMED AGAIN,

Did you know that a fish rots from the head down?

Why yes, I think you have mentioned that to me before Stormy.

Just had a news release sent to me from a friend. Jim Moen, Transporation Director, has passed away. Please keep his family in your prayers.

Can someone please explain how "All high schools with Free/Reduced Lunch subgroups met their reading proficiency targets"?

Does this mean all the FRL students in these subgroups met their reading proficiencies? If so, why, among "traditional high schools", did only Page, Eastern and Ragsdale make their AYPs? Must have been a bunch of non- reading-related goals the others missed.

The report states: "One hundred percent (100%) of the high schools with reading proficiency targets met reading proficiency for the African American, White, and Free/Reduced Lunch subgroups." This is reiterated three more times in the last paragraphs.

Does this possibly mean that some high schools DON'T have reading proficiency targets for some of these subgroups? Or is the level of proficiency expected of the various subgroups at the same level for each school or across the district?

High schools that missed more than 1 or 2 goals (Dudley, Smith, Central, Andrews) together missed 31 of their 84 goals. Were reading proficiencies not among any of these missed goals for all African-American, White and FRL subgroups? Can a school be opted out for reading proficiency? Why are the middle colleges usually rated for just a couple goals each?

Congratulations to Page, Eastern and Weaver, especially. When will we see the specifics of each school and the goals they met/missed?

Oh, silly me. The required reading score for meeting AYP this year, as it was last, is 35.4%. That's down from 52% two years ago. Next year is the same, but then it jumps back to 56% for 2007-08.

Thank goodness, I thought there had to be a logical explanation for all the passing subgroups (does this sound like "subhuman"?).
The standard is so low, I am not surprised. Note the district did not mention how many of the schools with the same subgroups passing reading proficiency may not have met the much higher 70.8% for math.

The number of schools passing AYPs and missing by less number of goals has gone up in large measure because the standards are lower for reading; and because there are more splinter schools with less goals to met overall.

Freddy,

I shared your same frustrations over the statements provided in the GCS press release. As a numbers-kind-of-guy, it just didn't make any sense to me. Thanks for the additional information you provided regarding the abysmal rate of passing - 35.4%. Where did you find that information?

For the record, the press release from GCS still doesn't make sense and it contains too much spin to be taken seriously.

Numbersgame,

To find other information...

Go to "site" for GCS that Jennifer provided. When you get to the GCS website click on "2006 yearly progress report" - about the 3rd or 4th line down. It gives another detailed report.

ba

This data makes no sense whatsoever.
I am sure that there will be a lot of backslapping at the next board meeting.

I had a conversation with a casual observer of the schools, and she had heard the GCS press conference and came away with a positive impression of the testing results. This proves to me that the school spin is working. The vast majority of people in this county don't understand the details of AYP (who does), and this allows them to put out spin that shows that schools are making great progress, when the opposite is true.

The numbers do seem at odds with each other. The final upshot seems to be that all high schools with the named subgroups passed at least one particular reading requirement. Whooppee!

just back from vacation, and read all the ayp stuff on GCS. Did I read right that the reading percentage was 35.r %-- it must be a typo, all the reast went up every three years, my guess is that it is suppose to be 53.4... any input anyone

I would certainly love to believe the three times the number 35.5% is listed are all typos; I would not, however, put it past the Edustablishment to actually lower the bar for some psychobabbly reason for a few years (a correction for switching to "harder" tests?). There was a UNCG professor who petitioned the state and district to release the actual test questions a few years ago, and to disclose the percentage of test answers needed right to be considered passing. It was dismally low and the questions ridiculously easy, even for the lower grades, but particularly for freshman high school.

Can we finally face the music and admit it: North carolina has pitiful learning standrads. Many good students. many fine parents and teachers. But the sheer mendacity and mundaneness of these stupid, stupid tests has reached the point of self-satire.

Step aside, Edustablishment, and let the children play, think and learn!