- James Island Charter High School--one
- Porter-Gaud School--two
- Wando High School--two
- Academic Magnet High School--four
students named as National Achievement Semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Competition.
Still, you have to wonder how the distribution would change if the elementary and middle schools in, say, District 4 (North Charleston), District 9 (Johns Island), and District 20 (downtown) had the resources of Buist Academy.Food for thought.
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Not that you have anything to do with it, Bable (real name Clelia Casey), being as you don't even work for CCSD.
Where are you getting this information? I am sure that there are more acadmic scholars than the ones listed here. What are the standards for being an achievement scholar?
Dosn't even work for CCSD? Who cares? Don't we all feel bad for the people working in that sytem? South Carolina needs to focus (especially District 20) on SCHOOL VOUCHERS! There is no hope for CCSD! Give up and fight for vouchers!
This is the Achievement program begun in 1964 for African-American students. The list comes from the S.C. Department of Education. You can click on their website listed on my blog and go to the list of students.
VOUCHERS!
People continue to comment on the previous entry from Thursday even though it is days old. Obviously people feel really passionate about downtown schools. I don't think this is about Toya Green's race.
It seems the same issues that so many people say caused the Sofa Super Store tragedy are at fault in downtown schools-cronyism? Someone should send this blog to Robert Ford.
Children in District 20 who qualify for SAIL are all placed on a bus and transported to Mitchell on Wednesdays from 9am-1pm...unless you attend Buist - then you receive endless SAIL resources at your school.
I guess the gifted and talented kids in our other District 20 schools aren't as smart as the "gifted and talented" kids at Buist and therefore don't deserve the same resources.
Imagine all of the wasted time just tranporting these kids to Mitchell.
On another note, I heard last year's 2nd grade Buist class only had a handful of kids who actually qualified for SAIL on the first "go around." These kids are being prepped to pass that test starting in kindergarten, so what's going on? Clearly, they are NOT truly gifted and talented as CCSD would have us believe.
If this kind of double standard is true then CCSD's methods of management are nothing short of obsene. It’s not right to offer a special program for all Buist students and only for Buist students (qualified or not) while relegating a restricted number of other downtown students to a single school with limited resources. McGinley owes us an explanation. If she was trying to be sensitive toward the African-American community, she's only shone us so far that she's tone deaf.
It would be nice if the Charleston County legislative delegation started asking questions about why CCSD is operating a system of apartheid downtown. Toya Green is certainly no help.
Oh what a tangled web Janet Rose is weaving. So she's complaining in Wednesday's paper about the Academic Magnet being too elitist. Wow, I wonder how this meshes with her defense of Buist? Maybe she plans to come to AMHS's rescue by suggesting they do things like they do at Buist. Now that would be reassuring.
Aren't some Ivy League universities just as worried that they are becoming too top heavy in the rich, white, gated community, geek catagory? But then Bill Gates eventually dropped out of Harvard.
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