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[quote=Anonymous]Class of 2017 graduation report is, again, revealing.

Some kids going to strong state schools: UVA(18), W&M (7), VTech (15), JMU (15), GMU (14), UMW (5), VCU (25), CNU (2), VMI.

Some kids going to selective private and out of state flagships: Cornell, Princeton (2), Duke (3), Rice, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Georgetown (2), NYU, Naval Academy, West Point (3),Tufts, Amherst, Barnard, Wesleyan, Smith (2), Lehigh, GWU, Northeastern, Bama, Auburn, Georgia, Minnesota, Penn State, Ohio State, West Virginia (2), South Carolina (2).

Given the high poverty rate at TC, and the guaranteed transfer options available in Virginia, it's not surprising that 139 are headed to NOVA.

What disappoints me as an ACPS parent is that the press release speaks only of the college bound. [b] That's only 354 out of 720 kids[/b].  What about the other half of the class?  I do not think that college is the right place for every 18 year old kid.  But shouldn't ACPS be reporting on the future plans of the other graduates?  If the vast majority of those kids will be enlisting in the military, entering apprenticeships, or taking jobs that will lead to living wages as a result of vocational training they received while in high school, I would be thrilled to see that data and satisfied that the $17,000 per pupil per year is being well spent by ACPS.  But if [i]more than half [/i]of TC Williams' graduating class will spend next year flipping burgers, cutting grass, playing video games while living in mom's basement, day laboring, raising kids on welfare, drug dealing, etc. then ACPS is failing miserably.  ACPS leaders must start gathering data and reporting outcomes for the non-college bound graduates if they want to assure us (as they always do) that they are doing a great job considering their demographics challenges.

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