Broughton High School parents may come to rue the school board's decision to not demagnetize the school.
As noted in today's article, school board members told staff to look at ways to increase the number of magnet students at Broughton. Considering how landlocked the school is, that's going to mean moving some base students out.
That won't sit well with Broughton families who, as the old saying goes, want to have their cake and eat it too.
The Broughton parents want to both keep the magnet program and not have to lose any base students.
Debbie Mann, Broughton's PTSA president, said they will fight any reassignment plans that move base students out to free up magnet slots. She said it's the base that has made Broughton such a special school.
Mann also said that it doesn't make sense to replace base students with magnet students who are the same demographically. (If you recall, that was cited by board members for demagnetizing Daniels Middle School instead of opting to move base kids out to create more magnet slots.)
Base students account for 67 percent of Broughton's enrollment. Magnet students make up 26 percent. Other students, such as transfers, fill up the remaining 7 percent.
It could be yet another headache for the school board during the upcoming reassignment season.
Comments
Reassignment Plan
Sat, 11/15/2008 - 12:34 — burrus1Broughton is a wonderful school with wonderful teachers and staff. They've got an excellent program going but the way I see it is that they've mistreated the base school students. Obviously some magnet students should get in but, that doesn't mean they should take away the base school privileges. I have been dreaming to go to Broughton and play on the tennis team for as long as I can remember, and I don't think that's fair to all of a sudden tell someone they can't go to a school that they have been planning on going to for quite some time. I am fighting this cause and hoping it will get changed within a year and a half.
Prediction
Wed, 10/22/2008 - 13:40 — NWRaleighMomI predict Growth Management will leave most of the prominent ITB areas in. They will give the rest priority selection in the 'lottery' process this year. In the end , it won't make any easier for OTB to get to this school.
School System and Board Need to Be Canned
Wed, 10/22/2008 - 13:09 — Raleigh (not verified)The School System and the Board have failed to understand their mission is to provide quality education, not to conduct social engineering and to spend our tax dollars shuttling kids around the County. There is no evidence that has shown putting kids from different races, religions, or economic backgrounds into the same school has added any value to learning or to the quality of education. It could be shown that integration (call it magnet program, low or free lunch, or economically disadvantaged) has taken our public schools from the top of the developed world (until the 1960s) into the worst of the developed worlds. Please vote against ALL incumbent Board Members and send them an email you want to get rid of all the magnet programs and quotas in our school system. Various court systems are now looking into the quota system used by Wake County as discrimination, and hopefully one of these courts will see the light!
NC House and State reps
Wed, 10/22/2008 - 16:09 — AngelaWNC House and State reps where applicable too.....
Whoa!
Wed, 10/22/2008 - 15:40 — Dadof3Leave Ron out of that mess. He's the lone parent advocate on the board. That's the problem I have with the simplistic "vote em ALL out" rhetoric. Makes nice pretzel-and-beer posturing but is as dangerous as voting for the same person repeatedly.
Don't hold your breath on ITB reassignments
Wed, 10/22/2008 - 12:00 — EqualtreatmentLast time I checked, Broughton's district extended NW across the Beltline all the way to Glenwood Ave and Duraleigh Rd. Look for pressure to be exerted to reassign OTB nodes. This is a familiar pattern for ITB schools looking to relieve themselves of population pressures.
Floyd!
Wed, 10/22/2008 - 09:58 — JSB (not verified)You're a funny guy!! Welcome to our (the real) world!! It ain't pretty on the other side!!
Just Secede
Wed, 10/22/2008 - 08:40 — FloydTurboCan NBHS simply "secede" from WCPSS? Declare itself an independent sovereign institution. The ITB Ravenscroft.
WCPSS ruins everything it touches and has long had its evil eye on NBHS. When Bill Ayers becomes America's Education Czar I guess this will seem trivial by comparison.
Hey ITB: join the club
Wed, 10/22/2008 - 07:19 — Dadof3Now that the stercoraceous bovine shrapnel is flying about, it should be fun (in a schadenfreude kind of way) to see as this "more equal than others" school gets its own medicine.
Now then, august students and alumni of Broughton, you're getting a 1ml dosage of what OTB gets for 5 squares a day. Yet, I expect the tail WILL wag the dog. Remember: power first; agenda second. Del-chuck rides the Broughton bronco!
Insert boilerplate slogans here:
Break this monster up. At large BoE voting. Go Ron!