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Jennifer, you forgot to say if this girl was black or white. It makes a difference. If she's white, that's okay what her mom did. If she's black than it's just ridiculas!

TRT, once again you are just way out there. Bullying does not know color, this Mom did just fine.

Perhaps Guilford County could learn a thing or two from Joe Paterno up at Penn State. Joe Pa is taking matters into his own hands by making all of his players clean the stadium because of the actions of a few. If that was done around here hopefully the troublemakers, be it black, white, or whatever skin tone, rich or poor would be handled a little bit better.

No that is NOT right.

You cannot punish all children because of a few.

R.T.,

Why do you always see the world in black and white? Things that happen in this world don't always revolve around people's skin color. Get a life, will you?

RT

what the heck difference does it make what color someone's skin is??

why do you hate white people so much???

it sounds like the mom is doing a great job in teaching her daughter a lesson whatever color she is (mom and daughter included)

I guess you are buying the Oprah theory why black people have more high blood pressure (see today's newspaper)

RT aka HP NAACP

That explains it all: the many misspellings, the cut & paste post on how finance works, the "we won't vote for bonds but the NAACP can stop it", the now we need to all vote for the bond for "Eastern". GOTCHA! Give it up. Like someone said on another strand. You have zero credibility.

Loved the Moses speech. NOT!

Buckmtn,

I agree with your post that what Joe PA is doing is just fine. Its not however punishing the whole team, its a team building exercise. Just like on the football field when someone screws up it has an effect on the whole team. Making the whole team pay the price for a few is a life lesson. Good coaches / successful coaches know that in order to win, every player has to do their job and they are only as good as the weakest link.

Its the same in real life except the consequences are less direct than in a football game. It takes years and generations to see the results. The score board is less obvious but the consequences, losing or winning are the same. Lets take segregating schools by income as an example. Parents in a middle class school (public or private Christian school) think their children are doing great and will be fine in the future, but what they don't understand that the cost their children will pay in the form of lower economic productivity, higher crime, perpetual poverty because they didn't help the less advantaged. They ignored them by segregating themselves and not working to improve the society as a whole. The priveledged pretended the poor didn't exist and said let someone else deal with it, not my problem. So the priviledged dreams will be unfulfilled as the numbers of poor increased creating a heavier and heavier burden on the priveledged. The priviledged couldn't find qualified workers so their companies failed and one by one the priveldged fell into poverty until society collapsed. Joe Paterno is right, glad we agree on something Buckmtn! Maybe you will stop being part of the problem and become part of the solution.

The Real Truth

Here we go again.......

Its just getting really frustrating with this RT person going on and on and on and on...

Then others attacking back anc back and back...

BORING!

Wow, did you see the Newsweek list of the top High Schools in The United States? Guilford County had 12 schools listed! Wake County only had 3 and one of those was a Charter School. Charlotte had 11. We should be very poud! The top GC was Western at 80, Grimsley 84, High Point Central 243, NW Guilford 318, SW Guilford 342, Andrews 483, Eastern Guilford 528, Southern 583, Ragsdale 780, SE Guilford 805, NE Guilford 979, Dudley 1189. More Good News from GCS! Striving and Acheiving!

The Real Truth

I'm not so sure that poll is worth much. It does show that many kids are taking AP but is it really helping? Does it help with college entrance if they take the class and fail the AP exam? I am asking in all seriousness. I have heard the line about preparing them for college, more rigerous (it should be)-- but for those that are pushed into the classes for the reason to get numbers up, is it really helping them? My son is going into HS next year and we have had many discussions about the path he should persue. I know he is capable of doing well in some areas, but not sure he is right for all AP subjects-- he is probably better suited for science than English. Is it better to try the English, when he is that level and not do as well, or stick with honors.

Doesn't GCS pay for the AP courses so students wil take the test? If so, this report ranking is worthless.

GCS pays for the exam on all AP classes, I believe it is in the 100,000's of dollars.

Deb,

Yes it is worth it to try AP classes even though you might only make a 2 on some tests. Top colleges look closely at the level of rigorous courses a student takes. They look an Honors courses too. See my recent post today on the strand discussing the AP test results. I'll drop you an e-mail and try to answer some of your questions in more detail from our experience with AP.

Deb,

I had the same concerns when my son entered high school. I did not think he should be taking AP level courses before 12th grade. Now, I would check out the quality of the teacher and encourage him to pursue more courses, even those outside of his strong areas. How many is up to the individual, but I think most students sell them self short? Talk to your counselors, teachers, and
students. You can find out quickly which courses
he may want to try.

He agrees. My average high school student is now
almost a 4.0 student at NC State. Of course, he never brought a book home in high school...having too much fun.

thanks for the input everyone.

Now what is your thoughts on some of our schools passing their students with A/B's in AP classes with the dismal passing rates of the AP's-- There is obviously a major difference in the expectations at each HS. How do we rectify that?

Deb,

I don't know what the answer is to your last question. Could it be that some of the schools have less qualified students in the classes just to offer an "AP" class at the school, grades are put on a curve and the top student still really didn't learn much?

We are unfortunately losing two great AP teachers this year at SW. How do you replace these veteran teachers witht he same quality of teacher?