Posted on 05/13/2005 10:39:44 PM PDT by zhukov
The current issue of Newsweek has it's yearly list of the top 100 high schools in the country.In Newsweek's quest to publish the most politically correct stories regardless of accuracy,Jay Mathews, using his absurd rating system,at least 9 of the top 10 schools are magnet or local high schools whose student bodies are all or mostly people of "color" as indicated by the photos of students accompanying the story and inner city locations However,another published news story indicated the school rated as the tenth best High School in the entire country by Jay Mathews also received a grade from the state of FLA :"D" as in one step above failure. Jay Mathews gets F for accuracy, A for fiction,and A+ for effort in advancing the cause of political correctness in this country .I must also give him a new grade A for unintentionally exposing this "rating system" as the sham I always believes it was. Jay Mathew meet Dan Rather.
Well, they ARE the top 100 high schools - the top 100 schools for advancing the liberal agenda. What exactly did you expect from "News"week?
Two Schools for the Price of One Yesterday's item on Tampa, Fla.'s Hillsborough High School--which got a "D" from the state but was rated the country's 10th best school by Newsweek--prompted several readers to write us with an explanation. Here's Skip Simpson:
It also turns out there's an explanation for why New York City's elite high schools didn't turn up in the list, given in an online Q&A with the authors:
Barbara Kantrowitz and Jay Mathews: We are looking for schools that challenge average students as well as the most gifted and therefore we exclude schools that have strict academic admissions criteria. Some of the best and most famous high schools in New York City use a entrance exam for all students and therefore don't qualify for our list. That would include schools like Stuyvesant, Bronx Science or Hunter College High School--all of which would likely be at the top of our list if we did include them. There are other wonderful public high schools in New York; we mentioned a few of them in our story.
So it turns out these are the best 1,000 (actually 1,042) mediocre high schools in the country.
Says it far better than I...
I hate that stupid magazine. When I was in College in Government Class, it was required reading. After each week, I would tear mine apart and throw it in the trash. After that semester ended, I never read "News" Week again.
Is there a Top 100 list of conservative colleges? I found plenty of Top 10 lists, but I wasn't interested in any of them (too far from home...).
I swear , even in the early 70's my buddy would call it Newswreck
I swear , even in the early 70's my buddy would call it Newswreck
A magazine that keeps the witch Eleanor Clift on its staff cannot be taken seriously.
It is a silly list. The sole criterion was advanced placement courses.
When a people are trained to think with something other than their brain using logic, these things happen. You know, as in any religious-like dogma or public schools... ;)
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