Election complaint about Wake Education Partnership

Their success has downsides... You are correct the success of their false adverstisement of hiding student failures behind school data has many downsides.

Five years ago... It wasn't a matter of it not affecting me, it was a matter of believing the false advertisement. For the umpteenth time, this is not about my kids - they are fine, it's the ones that I used to be like that concern me.

The 40% - It's WCPSS GM's hang-up. They are the ones that put it in the policy based on that study from the '90s, made reassignment plans to change school X's F&R  % from 42% to 32%, etc. and list out the F&R % of every node and every school before and after the reassignments. Technically, the 40% is referred to as a "target" in the policy and the policy says "Whenever any of the following targets are exceeded, the Board directs the Superintendent to review the reasons for exceeding the target, study trends across several years, and recommend ways in which the student assignment plan could help achieve the targets."

It rubs me because as they make such a big deal out of F&R%, people have gotten all paranoid about F&R. It sends the wrong message. Also, in the pursuit of the target the things that other studies have shown as keys to academic success (parental involvement, community involvment and stability) have been shoved aside, which is why we've been spinning our wheels educationally. 

I don't think many people in Wake are liberals who care about things... This one had me absolutely ROTFL. Liberal elites run WCPSS and have for a long time. They would be the ones who claim to care in the first breath and then explain how low-income cannot achieve anything and are hopeless and worthless in the next breath. They would be the people who don't want to acknowledge the achievement gap and keep trying to redirect the focus on schools instead of students. They are the ones who have cut classroom teachers and supplies while keeping overpaid administration. They would be the ones stiring up divisions within our community with labels instead of approaching things with open minds.

That place from where I come that is more united, where people are treated as individuals and not stereotypes, where the schools exceed demographic expectations, the achievement gap is much less, low-income students are in honors and AP classes, and there is a tremendous amount of community support, service and giving - you'd be hard pressed to find an elitist liberal there. You will find a lot of people who care and use common sense.

You won't find overpaid administration or wasted resources either. Right now the county is complaining to the state government there because the state government is replacing perfectly good road signs within the county for no reason other than the state needed to spend some stimulus dollars somehow. Back home, they like for all the citizens to be able to eat pork there, not have their money wasted on government pork spending. To me there is nothing wrong with not wasting precious resources, but rather using them wisely before asking for more. As the local governement uses resources wisely, they get more when they need and ask for them. It is the same as charitable giving. People are more willing to give to entities that use what they give effectively. It's really shouldn't be that hard of a concept to comprehend.