New GS rankings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know it shouldn't bother me but my elementary school dropped from a 7 to a 4. My mom had a big lecture today on how we can't send dd there for kindergarten next year. Nagging me to pay for private and why didn't I buy a few streets over where that school is better. Ugh. Neighborhood is high income mixed with 30% low income and that seems to have failed the school.

I will be sending my kid there but I'm pissed the score fell so much in one year, that low income students aren't doing well and that the school just isn't educating well.

Barret?
Barret’s GS has been in the toilet for a while. Not news.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know it shouldn't bother me but my elementary school dropped from a 7 to a 4. My mom had a big lecture today on how we can't send dd there for kindergarten next year. Nagging me to pay for private and why didn't I buy a few streets over where that school is better. Ugh. Neighborhood is high income mixed with 30% low income and that seems to have failed the school.

I will be sending my kid there but I'm pissed the score fell so much in one year, that low income students aren't doing well and that the school just isn't educating well.

Barret?
Barret’s GS has been in the toilet for a while. Not news.

No. 5 years or so ago my school was a 9. It was a 7 last year.

[Anonymous]

Cry me a river.

Has the school changed or is it just the methodology in rating the school changed?

Don't buy a house based on third party school rating website.
They have no power over you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know it shouldn't bother me but my elementary school dropped from a 7 to a 4. My mom had a big lecture today on how we can't send dd there for kindergarten next year. Nagging me to pay for private and why didn't I buy a few streets over where that school is better. Ugh. Neighborhood is high income mixed with 30% low income and that seems to have failed the school.

I will be sending my kid there but I'm pissed the score fell so much in one year, that low income students aren't doing well and that the school just isn't educating well.

Is she a nervous republican?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cry me a river.

Has the school changed or is it just the methodology in rating the school changed?

Don't buy a house based on third party school rating website.
They have no power over you.

Lol. Tell that to everyone buying houses. People use GS, even if you think they shouldn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cry me a river.

Has the school changed or is it just the methodology in rating the school changed?

Don't buy a house based on third party school rating website.
They have no power over you.

Lol. Tell that to everyone buying houses. People use GS, even if you think they shouldn't.

Let's hope they do! Don't move here people!!! Our schools suck, even the ones where all the students are rich and white and under capacity. Even they can't get it right.

[Anonymous]

Serious question:
Is this thread about your kids quality of education or your real estate values?

[Anonymous]

Why wouldn't it be about real estate values? That was the only thing GS was used for. As it basically measured test scores (and SES status), it was the metric that homebuyers found useful in evaluating school quality. Now that it is pushing measures of diversity and gaps between groups, it will be worthless in its prior use. Just another business to sacrifice its product to the political whims. It will fade into complete obscurity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't it be about real estate values? That was the only thing GS was used for. As it basically measured test scores (and SES status), it was the metric that homebuyers found useful in evaluating school quality. Now that it is pushing measures of diversity and gaps between groups, it will be worthless in its prior use. Just another business to sacrifice its product to the political whims. It will fade into complete obscurity.

Right, now you'll have to figure out a better way to assess how many poor minority kids live nearby.

[Anonymous]

You just voted yourself a sanctuary state.

Get ready for your schools to plummet. Move to where the privates are good,

[Anonymous]

Base this stuff on your child's individual experience instead of a random website's rankings. Is your child doing well in honors classes and getting something out of them? Is your child motivated, and a self-starter? Can they bounce back from failure? If so, they will do fine. They have the building blocks of success.

My spouse went to one of the worst-rated high schools in the country and now has a Ph.D. Turned down Yale and Stanford for grad school. I went to a small-town, rural high school that isn't even on Great Schools. Three-fourths of my classmates either didn't go to college or earned an associate's degree at the local community college. I went on to earn a master's degree from a great program at a well-known university.

It's about hard work, and self motivation. Smart kids find a way to rise to the top and do well no matter their zip code.

[Anonymous]

And how exactly as a homebuyers do you know in what school district your individual child will do well?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't it be about real estate values? That was the only thing GS was used for. As it basically measured test scores (and SES status), it was the metric that homebuyers found useful in evaluating school quality. Now that it is pushing measures of diversity and gaps between groups, it will be worthless in its prior use. Just another business to sacrifice its product to the political whims. It will fade into complete obscurity.

Right, now you'll have to figure out a better way to assess how many poor minority kids live nearby.

Well, I suppose we could always just look at SOL scores. I wonder how people did it in the old days before GS.

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Oh, I forgot, SES segregation is a new phenomenon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't it be about real estate values? That was the only thing GS was used for. As it basically measured test scores (and SES status), it was the metric that homebuyers found useful in evaluating school quality. Now that it is pushing measures of diversity and gaps between groups, it will be worthless in its prior use. Just another business to sacrifice its product to the political whims. It will fade into complete obscurity.

Right, now you'll have to figure out a better way to assess how many poor minority kids live nearby.

Well, I suppose we could always just look at SOL scores. I wonder how people did it in the old days before GS.

I
Oh, I forgot, SES segregation is a new phenomenon.

In the old days, de jure segregation took care of this, and homeowners didn't need to figure anything out. Once covenants were struck down, people had to rely on their real estate agents to be the gate keepers. People who want to always find a way, but I'm glad that there won't be a score that pops up on every real estate site to make it easier for them.

[Anonymous]

Parents do not want to live near the poors. The poors have “poor” habits that make them bad neighbors and that are detrimental to the schools - indolence, criminality, violence, lack of intellectual curiosity. Even the poors themselves do not want to live near the poors. This has been going on since the beginning of time and will never end for obvious reasons.