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If Page wants to draw students from Eastern and
Northeast, just ask the school board to quit
busing kids from the apartments in your back yard
to these schools. You know the ones that can
see the football lights. Oh...I forget..you don't
want these kids... The lower income impoverished
possibly lower scoring kids.

You want to draw the High IQ/high dollar kids which are the only ones that you would draw into Page with this program!! It is a way for these schools to hand pick the students they want!! This way you can bypass the lower income apartments and come out
to the Stoney Creek and Lake Macintosh $300.000
homes and get your kids.

Southwest..why haven't you thought of this!!!!!

Shouldn't this program have been placed at Eastern, instead of Page? Page is close enough to Grimsley for students to make that trip. It would be no further than students travelling from Northwest or Southwest to Central. It seems that the eastern part of the county should have a program, unless it's always about Greensboro, and the county and High Point go to #$%@. For that matter, doesn't Northwest have needs of such programs as well? There are over 2,000 students there. I'm sure there would be enough students to fill an IB Program.

They won't put a program like IB at NW because it might actually draw more students, and of course the intergration that having the program at Central creates would not happen. Very few NW students take IB because they have to go to Central, which from my house is about 25 miles, Grimsley is 8-10 miles. No one want to drive that far. I don't know where Page has the room, because during the last redistricting, they couldn't leave the Rankin kids there since they were so 'crowded'

Stormy, stormy, stormy....the "needs" of the students??? What are you tallking about??!!!! The needs of the students in Guilford County? C'mon! There is no such concern!

Programs are strategically placed in this system for two reasons and two reasons only!!

1.. To draw whites TO a school..

2. To draw whites FROM a school..

Poor Stormy, you thought the Guilford county "School" system was actually a system for TEACHING?!! My you have a lot to learn. I'm sorry to be the one to tell you but the Guilford System is to racially balance the county! Learning is not a priority at all! Just visit the GC website--DIVERSITY--that's #1.

Now go away Stormy and quit trying to make sense of this well thought out regime.

Sorry, I lost my head there for a minute. I forgot that we were talking about the Guilford County School system. Gee, we do need some new leadership in this organization to remind it why it exists. Isn't the board actually called the BOARD of EDUCATION? when are going to start doing some educatin'?

School Board,

It's about time that an IB or Early
College program is actually convenient for
students in the county. It doesn't make
sense to put so many next to each other and
it's not fair to "all" of the students of
Guilford County.

The only way to make room for students at
Page for a specialized high IQ student only
program would be to bus more students out
of Greensboro..

Look out students that can hear the Page band practicing at night..unless you are in the top 10% of your class..you will be on the next bus out of here!!!!!

Formal students of Page, unless you have a car -
say goodbye to
-Participating in sports, band, clubs
-School dances
-Parent/teacher conferences
-Getting a ride if you miss the bus
-Being invited to the after event get-togethers
-All the things that make being in high school a lifetime memory
-Goodbye lifetime friends

"All the things that make being in high school a lifetime memory"

It's a selective memory, always. This is precisely the mythology that has led American schools into being third-rate. The rest of the industrialized world has left us in the dust academically because we cling to the factory-output model of high school that emphasizes sports and popularity, etc. over hard learning. The IB programs and Early College will always be for the elite few, because by middle school, our kids have been coached into expecting constant entertainment value for their school experience.

I drove or rode the bus close to 15 miles each way for high school. Still managed to perform in school plays, stay late to work on art projects, etc. But sports and the constant drumbeat of road games, practices, and loss of time for REAL academics would have smashed any chance at college. So be it. The selective memory I mentioned usually leads people to gloss over the vast amount of pain and recrimination many, many students face day-in, day-out at school. It's the mandatory "pecking-order" stage of social development in the US.

Why do you think home-schooled students surpass their age-peers in so many tests and go on to better colleges, careers, etc?
Of course, all that posturing and putting-down kids learn as they make (similarly-well-heeld or economically-middle-class, etc.) friends can help those who go into corporate business later in life.

But the low income minorities being bused in this county have little to no chance of going to college without an athletic scholarship.

Freddy,

By saying that IB programs are only for the elite, you reinforce the point that One IB was making. Elite means persons of the highest class, which one would assume at Page that would mean Irving Park children. In no way is the IB program only for privileged children. You obviously don't understand the purpose of the program. It's to provide a challenging and rigorous educatonal experience for all children, regardless of class. Establishing an IB program at Page for Irving Park children only provides an IB Bubble that would separate them from the "regular" kids there. Noting that Page is now well above 50% minority school, it is obvious that this is an attempt to establish an IB Bubble there, such as has been done at Central for Emerywood children. It would seem that this is only an effort to try to bring Irving Park children back to the public schools by providing them a separate, protected educational opportunity. Is this what our public schools have become, low-performing schools for the middle and high poverty classes and IB Bubbles for the children of the elite?

Stormy,

Patent that one - "IB Bubble"

GREAT recap of the real truth!

"IB Bubbles" - (loving this one) and Early College" will always be for the elite few because the students that are selected to participate in these programs are selected by "the elite few".

We were told that students from Rankin could not
attend Page last year because there was no room
at Page. They want have to worry about buses, because we could walk to school.
Where is this space coming from that Page will use for the IB program in which students would apply to attend? Will they only allow Page students to apply? Will they bus more students away to make room?
Will they let Rankin students in first or have you already forgot about us? Which one is it??

Rankin wants to come home!!!!

Rankin,

I'll bet that the Page IB program will be limited to Page students.

Numbersgame,

Oh, I don't think so. They would likely welcome elite students from Northern. Summerfield is the home to some elites, you know.

Stormy,

You mean Page would draw its IB students from Page, Northern, Northwest?

Central would draw its students from Central, Andrews, Southwest.

Grimsley would draw its students from Grimsley, Western, Ragsdale?

Then Smith would draw its students from everywhere else?

Numbersgame,

Sounds about right as to what this school board would do. It's called cherry-picking.

On second thought, ignore Northwest in this plan; it's what the school board always does.

Actually I think Numbers Game has it right about IB draw. For years there were only 2 IB, Grimsley and Central. Smith was added a couple of years ago (One of the worst schools in the state, yet has an IB program) and now Page.. Northern and Northwest will feed into Page (they are the closest) not sure about NE, should probably still be Page; but my guess is Eastern, NE and SE would feed into Smith. Does anyone know for sure?
NW has feeds into Central currently.

I heard that Page High School was approved as another IB site. It would receive IB students from Northern High, Northeast High, Eastern High and, of course, itself, Page High. Grimsley would receive IB students from Northwest High, Western High and Dudley High and itself. This is a change because Northwest and Western students were districted to go to High Point Central if they wanted IB. Smith IB receives Southeast High, Southern High, Ragsdale High and itself and High Point Central receives Southwest High, Andrews High and itself. I understand this feeder pattern will begin next year. They will grandfather students already in a school.

Thanks!

jwg,

Thanks for pulling out that information. I just got my hands on a copy of it today.

Here are feeder patterns old vs. new:

Grimsley
Existing: Dudley, Eastern, Page, NE, Grimsley
New: Dudley, NW, Western, Grimsley

Central
Existing: Andrews, SW, Western, NW, Central
New: Andrews, SW, Central

Smith
Existing: Ragsdale, Southern, SE, Smith
New: Ragsdale, Southern, SE, Smith

Page
Existing: None
New: Eastern, Northern, NE, Page