juliagulia

Just what my school needs.

Now this happens a few months after there was a fight that was filmed by a kids camera phone and was publicized on the news, one month after a kid gets sent to the hospital (after my friend beat him with a tennis racket and left a dent in his head) and two weeks after our track team stole equipment from another high school during one of their meets.

now maybe the Board of Ed. will actually realize that they cant get all the SMART people and send them to other high schools and dump all the dumb kids with hammond and that they should actually keep an EYE on the teachers they hire.

and that teacher was a hott one too... :-/

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agriadam

stupid ass kid

I used to get loaded with a couple of my teachers in High School. it was fun... kind of makes you think though what kind of losers the teachers were that they had to hang out with high school kids...but being a high school kid you don't think that... you think "yeah i'm fuckin cool cause I got my modern world civ teacher buyin my beer."

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bellelass

mmmm... contributing to the deliquency of a minor- my favorite hobby.

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Joker

Sweet Fancy Moses! Weed at Hammond?!?!? Nah! They were known for nose candy! :D

A bunch of us used to get loaded with a teacher in HS. He got in trouble because we all went to a football game drunk, but didn't get fired or anything. Private schools tend to keep that shit underwraps...

As for shipping the students around, Julia, the Centennial HS district is loaded with the "smart" kids because every family in HoCo wants to live in it, so they move there. The County doesn't and can't legally ship students around to different schools unless they are going to a specified "magnet" school like the Vocational school on Route 108 next to Board of Ed. Now, assuming you have a split household and each parent lives in a different district, then show legal residence in the district you want...

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What is a magnet school?

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magnet schools are schools with specific programs outside of the regular curiculum, IE a vocational school, or similar. They don't call them VoTech's any more, because Magnet School sounds o much more PC...

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juliagulia

hmm... you mean like JROTC?

i considered joining just bc Long Reach is a v. good school 9and thats where they would send me if i joined) and hammond has the 2nd to worst assessment scores... not v. good.

well, i guess theyre not doing it on purpose, but for the past 3 years, theyve been getting students from the more desirable middle schools and sending them to other high schools (long reach, centennial, reservoir, wilde lake) and keeping the kids from the less desirable middle schools (hammond, patuxent [patuxent got an award for best middle school or something, but, its tests scores are pretty low... so, patuxent kids are well disciplined... but dumb]). these kids from the less desirable middle schools just HAPPEN to have lower test scores making hammond look even worse

teachers ''contributing to the delinquincy of minors'' isnt really helping our reputation.

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Julia- a few demographic stats for Howard County. Grew up there, didn't go to HS there, but am VERY familiar with the area as a result. (i went to Loyola in Towson. I'm a product of the Jesuit educational system FTR.)

Centennial HS District encompasses the single wealthiest zip code in the county. It also has the highest per capita population of 1st generation Asian-Americans in the county. Not making stereotypes here, but their culture focuses very heavily on education, morseo than the other cultures represented. Their test scores are thus skewed because of the huge population difference.

Hammond, Howard, Hebron, and Glenelg all are in nearly equally as wealthy areas, however do not have the same test scores because of the population skews. Wilde Lake and Long Reach are beasts unto themselves because they have a lot of problems due to the vast diversity of wealth in their districts ($650K homes and section 8 housing in the same class creates a whole new world of problems for educational purposes.)

Furthermore, as I said, if you come from a divorced home and your folks live in two different zips and potentially two different districts, then you could go to another school.

Previous presidential administrations have attempted to enact school voucher programs that allow students to transfer freely across district lines to force certain schools/districts to improve because of the mass exodus of students from one to another. But AFAIK, there has been no success with that.

If it comes down to a problem with the quality of the teachers in, say, Centennial or Mt. Hebron versus Hammond or Wilde Lake, then the school board and the teachers union are the problems for perpetuating a system that accepts mediocraty instead of striving for excellence overall.

And, frankly, though your school may have its own issues, they all do. Don't believe me? Mt. Hebron earned its nickname of Mt. Snow/Heroin years and years ago, and its in a neighborhood where the homes start in the upper $400,000 range.

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Joker

Julia- a few demographic stats for Howard County. Grew up there, didn't go to HS there, but am VERY familiar with the area as a result. (i went to Loyola in Towson. I'm a product of the Jesuit educational system FTR.)

Centennial HS District encompasses the single wealthiest zip code in the county. It also has the highest per capita population of 1st generation Asian-Americans in the county. Not making stereotypes here, but their culture focuses very heavily on education, morseo than the other cultures represented. Their test scores are thus skewed because of the huge population difference.

Hammond, Howard, Hebron, and Glenelg all are in nearly equally as wealthy areas, however do not have the same test scores because of the population skews. Wilde Lake and Long Reach are beasts unto themselves because they have a lot of problems due to the vast diversity of wealth in their districts ($650K homes and section 8 housing in the same class creates a whole new world of problems for educational purposes.)

Furthermore, as I said, if you come from a divorced home and your folks live in two different zips and potentially two different districts, then you could go to another school.

Previous presidential administrations have attempted to enact school voucher programs that allow students to transfer freely across district lines to force certain schools/districts to improve because of the mass exodus of students from one to another. But AFAIK, there has been no success with that.

If it comes down to a problem with the quality of the teachers in, say, Centennial or Mt. Hebron versus Hammond or Wilde Lake, then the school board and the teachers union are the problems for perpetuating a system that accepts mediocraty instead of striving for excellence overall.

And, frankly, though your school may have its own issues, they all do. Don't believe me? Mt. Hebron earned its nickname of Mt. Snow/Heroin years and years ago, and its in a neighborhood where the homes start in the upper $400,000 range.

As for JROTC, its a great way to learn discipline and potentially prepare yourself for a military career. I'm not familiar with the JROTC program in Howard, but in most cases not every school has one and you drill at the closest school that does have one, exactly like college-level ROTC does. (Towson U didn't have one, but Loyola College did, so you'd have to drive down to Loyola to drill.)

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