The best high schools in America?

[CCTAU]

This has to be the worst bunch of crap ever dealing with this. There was only 1 high school on the list that had over 2000 students in it. And very few that had any significant numbers of minorities. Basically this is a list of schools that school systems have split off for the smartest students in the area. So the list should be more of a the best elite/private high schools in America. Of course, if you throw the shitheads out of high school and send them to some vocational school, then more high schools could look like these.

Check out the list and give your own opinion.

http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/108337/americas-best-high-schools-2010?mod=edu-k12_education

[GH2001]

This has to be the worst bunch of crap ever dealing with this. There was only 1 high school on the list that had over 2000 students in it. And very few that had any significant numbers of minorities. Basically this is a list of schools that school systems have split off for the smartest students in the area. So the list should be more of a the best elite/private high schools in America. Of course, if you throw the poopheads out of high school and send them to some vocational school, then more high schools could look like these.

Check out the list and give your own opinion.

http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/108337/americas-best-high-schools-2010?mod=edu-k12_education

I hope that is sarcasm

So, you would have them name schools as the best schools just because they have minorities rather than on the merits of if they are actually good??

Living around the Cols, GA area during my HS years, you would have thought that Cols HS was the best HS in the country by the complex those folks had. Its usually in the top 1000 or whatever but far from Mountain Brook or even Auburn HS.

[CCTAU]

They are not ranking on an even field. These are schools that have been CREATED to be good. They should be good, they have deleted the riff-raff. But these really aren't what one thinks about when they think high school. Only a small percentage of students attend these schools in their own district, much less the nation. So the ranking is skewed. do you think Loveless in Montgomery is made up os students in only one district?

Don't get me wrong. Kudos to the schools. But the numbers are skewed against what we all know about normal high schools.

[GH2001]

They are not ranking on an even field. These are schools that have been CREATED to be good. They should be good, they have deleted the riff-raff. But these really aren't what one thinks about when they think high school. Only a small percentage of students attend these schools in their own district, much less the nation. So the ranking is skewed. do you think Loveless in Montgomery is made up os students in only one district?

Don't get me wrong. Kudos to the schools. But the numbers are skewed against what we all know about normal high schools.

See your point, but just remember - the more students a school has, the more likely it is that the quality gets watered down. Not always true but a good likelihood. Many of these schools are exclusive for a reason. If they are just going by how smart the kids are and how well they do, then that is skewed. I am also interested to know how efficient a school is. How effective the teachers are compared to what they have to work with. Those kinds of things should also be figured into it, and probably aren't.

[CCTAU]

I agree. My true point here is that more schools could be closer to these numbers if they were allowed to throw out the trash. Vocational schools are a must. Get rid of the troublemakers and teach them to lay bricks. We need more English speaking bricklayers.

And I could care less if they get left behind. Ever since integration this whole country has been left behind. We are a nation being filled so full of guilt that we are always looking behind instead of forward.

[GH2001]

I agree. My true point here is that more schools could be closer to these numbers if they were allowed to throw out the trash. Vocational schools are a must. Get rid of the troublemakers and teach them to lay bricks. We need more English speaking bricklayers.

And I could care less if they get left behind. Ever since integration this whole country has been left behind. We are a nation being filled so full of guilt that we are always looking behind instead of forward.

Yes, No Child Left Behind is one of the policies that truly put Bush in the neocon class to me. No true GOP would have passed that shit. I agree on ridding of the troublemakers. See your point and I agree.

[Thrilla]

Sooooo....only one school in the top 25 out of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee.  I see that things haven't changed all that much.

[Aubie16]

Dang. My high school (a completely public high school, you had to live in district to attend) was in the top 10 a couple years ago. Didn't see them in the top 300 now. Oh well.