Comments on: Questioning Logic of School “White Flight” to ‘Burbs, Decatur Comes Out On Top in SAT http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/11/19/questioning-logic-of-school-white-flight-to-burbs-decatur-comes-out-on-top-in-sat/ Decatur Georgia News, Events, Atlanta News Tue, 16 Sep 2014 03:29:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: Henry W. Grady http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/11/19/questioning-logic-of-school-white-flight-to-burbs-decatur-comes-out-on-top-in-sat/#comment-74434 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:07:50 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-74434 actually, if you trudge through the BS comments on the page, you will find that this assertion has already been proven incorrect. Using the same numbers from the DOE website, one reader responds to this claim (made earlier on the comment section), with the following:
“David Simms claims that the higher overall average SAT scores for all students at those schools somehow prove “that the white students at those schools are being better taught than the white students in Grady High in Atlanta.” Really? The facts — as shown in the DOE’s own numbers — are that the average white student SAT (math plus verbal) score at Grady for the last reported school year was 1161 — higher than the white student averages at every one of the schools listed by David: Walton (1159), Lassiter (1129), Pope (1126), Harrison (1085), Roswell (1146), Milton (1119), and South Forsyth (1099). Moreover, in none of the last three years have the white student average SAT scores at any of those schools ever equaled the average white student scores at Grady”
The reader only addresses Grady High School in Atlanta as a direct response to the previous comment, however, the numbers ring true for most ITP schools with a significant white population.

]]> By: Stacy http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/11/19/questioning-logic-of-school-white-flight-to-burbs-decatur-comes-out-on-top-in-sat/#comment-74147 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:49:49 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-74147 I don’t know what Neil Boortz is actually saying, but he did send his kid to Dekalb public schools.

]]> By: Another Rick http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/11/19/questioning-logic-of-school-white-flight-to-burbs-decatur-comes-out-on-top-in-sat/#comment-74065 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:57:37 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-74065 Closing “the achievement gap” was a big deal at CSD last time I checked. That tells me there may be some issues facing lower income families.

]]> By: Ebony & Ivory http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/11/19/questioning-logic-of-school-white-flight-to-burbs-decatur-comes-out-on-top-in-sat/#comment-73936 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:28:30 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-73936 All of this talk about ITP vs. OTP and Black versus White has caused me to seriously question my internal belief system. After much contemplation I have decided that I will adopt four children (two black and two white) and send one of each color to schools OTP (by faking their residency status, of course ((take THAT, Irony!!)), and the other two to schools ITP.

Check back here in 20 years for my report on how it all turned out.

]]> By: DecaturCyn http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/11/19/questioning-logic-of-school-white-flight-to-burbs-decatur-comes-out-on-top-in-sat/#comment-73862 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 03:54:45 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-73862 There’s an excellent Atlanta-based group called “All about Developmental Disabilities” (AADD). Their website is http://www.aadd.org.

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