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Brent
10-17-2008, 03:05 PM
The Skipper, RosaGilligan "and the rest" continue their unwise tinkering with an unwise school assignment policy, this time proposing to remove one of the rare actual success stories of that program.

From the Enloe PTSA president:

It has come to my attention that Enloe's magnet and IB status is 'under discussion' by our Board of Education. Why on EARTH there would be any consideration to change the incredible programming at Enloe that our children take full advantage of and benefit greatly from is beyond me, but here we are...


As an Enloe parent, it's beyond me, too. Yeah, Enloe, like other schools, has its problems such as the "gang fight nee student altercation" discussed elsewhere in this forum, but those problems should be fixed at Enloe and all other schools.

Removing Enloe's magnet status is unwise. The magnet program at Enloe has, by all accounts, been a tremendous success and has garnered much positive recognition. I cannot understand why anyone would propose to tinker with such a successful program.

The magnet program is one of WCPSS's success stories, and Enloe is an exemplar of that successful program.

And for those of you who support the BoE's assignment policy, read the Board work session review comments of how "healthy" (according to the BoE's definition) Enloe would be as a magnet school vs. a non-magnet school.

It seems to me that "the castaways" have more than enough real problems to tackle without undoing something that actually is a success story.

Icorpse
10-18-2008, 05:01 PM
The whole school board is about to go belly up. Change is on the horizon.

JoeCiulla
10-18-2008, 06:12 PM
The whole school board is about to go belly up. Change is on the horizon.

what makes you think that?

Brent
10-18-2008, 07:40 PM
The whole school board is about to go belly up. Change is on the horizon.

You mean, this is the episode where they finally get off the island? :-D Hallelujah!

CHANGE at the BoE is decades overdue.

Icorpse
10-19-2008, 01:24 PM
From what I have heard, most of the social engineers have decided to run away than face the angry parents, including EG. I have also been told that several local wake parent groups are preparing to put up candidates as well.

JoeCiulla
10-19-2008, 01:43 PM
From what I have heard, most of the social engineers have decided to run away than face the angry parents, including EG. I have also been told that several local wake parent groups are preparing to put up candidates as well.

Well, there's always hope! They will redraw school districts in 2011, which maybe gets the OTB group one or two more seats. In the meantime our best hope is to have strong county commissioners who can exercise at least some control over these people.

DarylB
10-26-2008, 02:09 PM
In the meantime our best hope is to have strong county commissioners who can exercise at least some control over these people.

"When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."
- Adolph Hitler

Was Hitler running for Wake BoE by chance?

Brent
10-26-2008, 04:42 PM
WCPSS did decide to keep Enloe as a magnet school.

Now I am confident that they will turn their attention to the declining academic performance and mismanagement of school facilities caused by their ridiculous assignment policy.

And pigs will fly.

JoeCiulla
10-26-2008, 07:25 PM
WCPSS did decide to keep Enloe as a magnet school.

Now I am confident that they will turn their attention to the declining academic performance and mismanagement of school facilities caused by their ridiculous assignment policy.

And pigs will fly.

Nah, they just move on to the next one, in this case Leesville. They took a high-performing school with strong community support and broke it by converting to MYR -- even after learning the hard way that enrollment actually goes DOWN when schools get converted. I'm really glad they left Enloe alone.