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100 Best High Schools In America Ranked (Three Schools From Virginia Make Top 100)
WKMG TV NEWS ^ | 11-30-2007

Posted on 12/01/2007 10:49:31 AM PST by Cagey

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To: xsmommy

Honestly, I’ve seen it. I also get enough fund raising requests mentioning (actually highlighting) the listing.

However, for all I know it could be a NYS only listing, I haven’t paid any attention to it in years and years.


81 posted on 12/01/2007 6:05:51 PM PST by Gabz (Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
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To: Daffynition

Not funny.


82 posted on 12/01/2007 6:07:01 PM PST by Gabz (Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
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To: xsmommy

There are 4 in Texas on the Mexican border. More in Dallas and Houston but four on the border is interesting.


83 posted on 12/01/2007 6:13:06 PM PST by lonestar
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To: muawiyah
The typical TJ grad is taking college courses in their freshman year. There was a story in the WaPo last year of a young man who graduated from TJ with enough credits he was able to graduate in a year from UVA. Granted, he took a whole lot of credits while at UVA and that did include 2 semesters and a summer, but that was pretty impressive. IIRC he majored in math and minored or double majored in a science.

My own child will graduate from her high school with enough credits to be be a 2nd semester sophomore when she walks onto campus. Good deal - saves me money! :)

84 posted on 12/01/2007 6:18:48 PM PST by SoftballMominVA (Never wrestle with a pig; he wants to get dirty anyway.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Both of the high schools in my rural county teach Latin I, II, III, IV, and V. There are enough kids taking these classes to offer them each semester.


85 posted on 12/01/2007 6:21:46 PM PST by SoftballMominVA (Never wrestle with a pig; he wants to get dirty anyway.)
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To: Daffynition

FWIW, the school on the bottom is probably from India


86 posted on 12/01/2007 6:23:30 PM PST by SoftballMominVA (Never wrestle with a pig; he wants to get dirty anyway.)
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To: xtinct

Using “old” math, I counted five, including:

Dover-Sherborn Regional High Norfolk County, Dover

Media And Technology Charter School Suffolk County, Boston


87 posted on 12/01/2007 6:42:24 PM PST by OESY
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To: Dionysius
St. Louis schools had their accredidation stripped from them. Of course it was called racist by the Post-Dispatch. Hmmm — do you think, if not for racism, they would have made the top 100?

Absolutely! The reason that there's a 60-Plus percent dropout and failure rate is racism! The reason that half of the kids who do graduate can't write a coherent sentence or make change is because of racism. The reason they can't learn is racism. The cause of global warming is racism. Everything bad in the world is caused by racism!

Actually, there were a number of schools in the KCMO school district that were actually in Independence, MO, and the voters of Independence wanted to take over those schools, bringing them into the Independence School District, which is a pretty good district with pretty good schools. Well, KCMO did everything they could to keep those schools from being taken over, from trying to keep the initiative off the ballots, to filing law suits, to threatening to change all the locks on the doors, and not allow anyone into the buildings. Because if the KCMO Public Schools lose all those kids, they also lose LOTS of money from the feds and the state! I believe that the initiative will be on the next ballot. I know that the parents want their kids OUT of the KCMO public school district.

Mark

88 posted on 12/01/2007 7:34:16 PM PST by MarkL (Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
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To: DocRock
Third on the list is..."Polk County, Bartow, Florida Oxford Academy"

No such school exists. However, there is an International Baccalaureate School in Bartow, FL which ranks as third.

The list needs a html break between "California" and "International" to properly represent the school in Bartow.

My daughter is a senior there.

Similarly, there's no such school as Sarasota County, Osprey, Florida High Technology High School ... there is, however, a Pine View School in Osprey - one of the best high schools in Florida.

89 posted on 12/01/2007 7:41:55 PM PST by JellyJam (Best headline ever: "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists Are Muslims!")
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To: xsmommy

What!! No Corona Del Mar HS or Newport Harbor HS, Horsesh$t.........!!!!!


90 posted on 12/01/2007 7:50:29 PM PST by cmsgop ( MURTHA: 'I think the 'surge' is working'...)
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To: xsmommy
it specifically says in the article that it only considered public HSs.

New Republic stood by Scott Beauchamp's bs story about Iraq atrocities, too. CNN swears it's Republican debate questioners weren't DemonRat plants. Dan Rather with CBS swears his Bush National Guard records story was true. John Kerry swears his war record was smeared by the Swiftboat Veterans (who knew better).

Then again, US News & World Reports is a little better (and Charter musn't REALLY mean Charter).

91 posted on 12/01/2007 8:25:45 PM PST by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: MarkL

And the unfortunate Independence kids have to apply for college coming from a failed district, just so a corrupt organization can keep up its bloated payroll. Even if Independence win the initiative, KC will keep it in the courts forever. These doomed kids can only be saved by one concept — vouchers, but our chicken GOP candidates won’t touch the issue. When are they going to realize that they’ll never make the blacks (and other Dem vassals) love them, no matter how much they grovel and pander?

Dennis


92 posted on 12/01/2007 8:28:36 PM PST by Dionysius (Jingoism is no vice.)
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To: BOBTHENAILER
maybe CHARTER is an education term of art, because i googled it and they are definitely defined as public schools.
93 posted on 12/02/2007 4:44:12 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: lonestar

that IS very interesting. It is far less surprising that the schools are mostly in wealthy urban areas.


94 posted on 12/02/2007 4:47:36 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: Cagey

Wow. Thanks for the info!


95 posted on 12/02/2007 4:54:25 AM PST by Joya (May God rest your soul in peace, Sean Taylor. Heartfelt condolences to your loved ones.)
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To: xsmommy
I’ve never really understood exactly what Charter schools are. Thanks for posting that link.
96 posted on 12/02/2007 4:57:46 AM PST by Cagey (Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.......Thoreau)
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To: Redcloak
My alma mater’s on the list.

Shocking, eh?

Mine's there as well. I'd have been shocked if it wasn't. But then, considering the taxes that are being paid to support that school system...

97 posted on 12/02/2007 4:58:41 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Wipe the bottom, vote for Rodham!)
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To: Cagey

i really didn’t understand either, but i know the charter schools in DC are public schools, so i knew they COULD be public. how novel a concept, a public school with ACCOUNTABILITY; pretty funny when you think about it.


98 posted on 12/02/2007 5:05:36 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: Cagey

Five in little Massachusetts.


99 posted on 12/02/2007 5:25:22 AM PST by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: xtinct

Five.


100 posted on 12/02/2007 5:27:28 AM PST by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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