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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lets face it, public education in the state of NC is crap.  I taught there and I know.  If the university has to accept 80% of its applicants from in state the school cannot be that great.  The OOS students help boost the averages, the in state students would be attending Radford if they were in VA[/quote]

This is something I always wondered about. I have never lived in NC but just had friend that had moved there. I have been told that the k-12 education has always been lacking yet they have always had a great reputation with the university. How does this work. The kids are not taught well until college?  I know states like Massachusetts have great k-12 education. The state university(U Mass) does not do as well because it competes for talent with all the private universities. States like Virginia, Michigan, Wisconsin, seem to have both strong k-12 and public universities. I just don't see how UNC has such a great university but not so at k-12.[/quote]

I am from NC and I don't see much difference between k12 in VA vs. NC.  NC has all-day kindergarten, while parts of VA don't.  NC has NCSSM; VA has TJ.[/quote]

We moved from NC to NOVA and the k-12 education here is light years better. My friends still in NC can't believe the academic opportunities my FCPS kids have, from AAP to advanced math/7th grade Algebra to TJ and "all those APs"-- let alone an IB option. But agree that this does not accurately k-12 education in other parts of VA

But your TJ/NCSSM comparison is just wrong. NCSSM is 11th-12th grade only, and is a boarding school.  Not even the brightest kids I grew up with considered it for this reason-- you are essentially heading off to college at 16. And none of the parents I know who are still in NC want their kids to apply for exactly this reason.  The wealthy parents who want a HS boarding school experience for their kids want it for 4 years-- and can pay for better facilities near more of a prep school experience. So NCSSM is actually not all that within NC, because most bright, affluent kids would never apply. [/quote]

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