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ffof
Citizen
Username: Ffof
Post Number: 1946
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 8:59 am: |     |
Upcoming events all interested community members should put on their calendars:
March 6 - Music Marathon in New Cafeteria - all day - Bands, orchestras, chorus, jazz bands
March 12, 13, 19, 20 at 7:30 All School Musical "Peter Pan"
March 14 and 21 at 2:00
April 7 - School In Action Night - 7pm til ?
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vor
Citizen
Username: Vor
Post Number: 175
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 9:02 am: | |
ffof
Your approach is much better then mine.
Humbly yours
VoR |
ffof
Citizen
Username: Ffof
Post Number: 1947
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 9:12 am: | |
(I almost responded too but I must have woken up on the right side of the bed this morning!) |
lah
Citizen
Username: Lah
Post Number: 189
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 1:11 pm: | |
Just bumping this one up (because the other one is so offensive!) |
lah
Citizen
Username: Lah
Post Number: 190
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 1:12 pm: | |
While we're on this topic, does anyone have the latest stats on college acceptances at CHS? The early information that I heard in December was very encouraging. |
kathy
Citizen
Username: Kathy
Post Number: 755
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 1:51 pm: | |
Lots of early acceptances this year (as usual), including Harvard (2), Yale, Cornell (5), Columbia, Barnard (2), Penn, Chicago, Tulane, Duke, Muhlenberg (at least 2)....Those are just kids that I can think of off the top of my head. Acceptances from schools that do rolling admissions are starting to come in. Standard date for regular decisions is early April. |
ffof
Citizen
Username: Ffof
Post Number: 1949
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 2:37 pm: | |
also Tufts, Univ of Chicago |
r2boy
Citizen
Username: R2boy
Post Number: 139
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 2:51 pm: | |
Williams College |
lah
Citizen
Username: Lah
Post Number: 192
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 4:40 pm: | |
As long as we're on good things at CHS, did anyone go to the dance recital a few weeks ago? I couldn't make it, but heard good things. |
bklyntonj
Citizen
Username: Bklyntonj
Post Number: 179
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 4:53 pm: | |
You've given the information of 14 students going to credible colleges out of 2100 (none based on fact) and this is the rise of Columbia? No, I'm not being pessimistic but let's be realistic... Wouldn't you agree it takes more than this to show Columbia is on the rise? |
Marc
Citizen
Username: Bautisma
Post Number: 95
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 4:57 pm: | |
And you based its fall on the increase of black students. Wouldn't you agree that it takes more to show that Columbia is on the decline.
And what is it on the decline from? From you went to Columbia? From last year? From what? |
vor
Citizen
Username: Vor
Post Number: 181
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 5:05 pm: | |
Dear ffof
I really want to respond to njtobklyn, but I don't want to suffer from the rath of Dave, because if I start I won't be able to control myself. I look to you for guidance.
Sign me Enraged |
bklyntonj
Citizen
Username: Bklyntonj
Post Number: 181
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 5:12 pm: | |
I'm glad you said that Marc. I did mention black students who come from a background that's not supported by an example of academic acievements. I also mentioned a flight of white students for whatever reason, I'm not sure (perceived decline of CHS maybe) as the reasons for CHS's decline. I mention this to be based on the resident opinion of SOM. Now I here comments about my character but nothing about the fact that this is what people are saying. I'm just repeating it. Why are people acting like race plays no issue and we all get along so well? Honesty is what breaks down barriers, not this "we're all one happy family" bullsh*t. |
harpo
Citizen
Username: Harpo
Post Number: 1245
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 5:38 pm: | |
Just want to add my 2 cents in support of a great place to live with a problematic message board.
From the first moment I discovered MOL, 2 years after moving here from Brooklyn, I became aware of a very small number of rightwing posters who held the view that Maplewood was being ruined by liberals moving from Brooklyn. These posters repeatedly changed their screen names to appear to be more numerous than they were when they bemoaned the "decline" of the town because of a liberal influx. They also put up on troll posts on the education thread, pretending to be disillusioned liberals, dissatisfied with the schools, lured here by false promises, now frightened by the constant danger -- out of the belief that potential liberal homebuyers from Brooklyn were reading the education boards and would be scared away (and therefore not come here and vote for Democrats!). When half a year ago I saw a new poster named "bklntonj" I silently asked myself: "How long before this person has an ostentatious 'wake-up' and 'pulls his head out of the sand' about how awful and hypocritical Maplewood is -- all for the benefit of MOL readers?"
If you are reading this and thinking of moving to Maplewood, you don't need to read MOL and probably wouldn't, which is dominated by people who are so isolated in their negative opinions of the town they have to come here to find 8 other people who might commisserate with them. Spend some time here. Quality of education and safety in the schools remains high because the parents and teachers are so demanding.
Furthermore, Maplewood really is the premiere choice for people who need a diverse community filled with adopted children, interracial couples, mixed marriages, blended families, same-sex couples, and all the other good things you've heard. Off MOL, in the neighborhoods and schools, you will repeatedly encounter friendly, considerate, open-minded people who wouldn't live anyplace else in the metropolitan area -- and their property values just keep going up.
Hope that helps sort through the noise!
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lumpynose
Citizen
Username: Lumpyhead
Post Number: 698
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 6:06 pm: | |
Harpo- Stop blaming everything on right-wingers. The true right-wingers moved out of Maplewood in the 1980's. Perhaps the split is coming from disillusioned democrats that moved here expecting a utopia and finding the real world. Who knows what they were running away from in Brooklyn.
I don't know the numbers or percentages of the CHS students that go on to college but I think it is very high. |
jem
Citizen
Username: Jem
Post Number: 903
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 6:11 pm: | |
Nothing like shooting from the hip, there bklyntonj: Last I heard, 2100 is the total population of the high school, not the size of the senior class. Those off-the-top-of-someone's-head "14 students" are early decision and early action acceptances, not the entire list of college-bound seniors.
In January, the district published the names of the kids and the schools to which they were admitted early action/early decision.
Here's the whole list of schools and numbers accepted higher than one in parentheses, from the Board of Ed Highlights - I don't think it's appropriate to list the names of the students. I believe this accounts for 27 kids.
Barnard, Bucknell, College of NJ, College of Wooster, Columbia University, Cornell (5), Duke, Emerson (2), George Washington, Hartford, Harvard (2), Johnson and Wales, Lehigh, Muhlenberg, University of Pennsylvania, Stevens Institute, Tufts, Tulane, Vassar, University of Vermont, Williams, Yale
Most years over 90% of graduating seniors go on to higher education. And the drop-out rate is very, very low, so that figure speaks well of the school.
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harpo
Citizen
Username: Harpo
Post Number: 1248
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 6:15 pm: | |
nah, lumpy. Not so. Or how about neo-rightwingers?
I don't think people are running away from anything in Brooklyn, as the neo-rightwingers keep repeating in hopes of making it seem true. Most people move from Brooklyn because their family situation has exceeded their present space or because they believe their kids should grow up where there are backyards and lots of trees. The families that Maplewood attracts in particular are those who do not want to live in a white flight suburb for very well thought out reasons. Most already have life experiences of knowing exactly what the real world is and what they want.
To the extent that people find that Maplewood doesn't meet all their expectations, the reasons are very quirky, and often have very much to do with the specific house they buy or street they live on. People who are really unhappy tend to move, and it's hard to find a house in Maplewood because not many people move.
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lumpynose
Citizen
Username: Lumpyhead
Post Number: 699
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 6:28 pm: | |
Harpo- Maplewood is a great place but it has it's problems like everywhere else. I have been here for a while and have noticed that it is some relative newcomers (1 to 3 years) that are disillusioned and some feel they have been sold a bill of goods. I am not sure if they are neo- right wingers or not but some are disappointed with the level of crime etc.. Buyer Beware! |
lumpynose
Citizen
Username: Lumpyhead
Post Number: 700
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 6:40 pm: | |
BTW- A quick search on Bklyntonj's past posts how absolutely no political affliation or opinion. He/she moved here in Aug. 03 and has buyers remorse. So much for your conspiracy theory of neo- right wingers. They sure are easy to blame and a good scape goat but try to remember where you are. |
bklyntonj
Citizen
Username: Bklyntonj
Post Number: 182
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 11:17 pm: | |
Good research Lumpynose. But the only remorse I have about Maplewood is a bunch of people claimimg to be so diverse in a town which lives in denial of its seperatism and "dinner table" racism. Other than that, its not a bad town. |
ffof
Citizen
Username: Ffof
Post Number: 1950
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, February 14, 2004 - 8:05 am: | |
Hear ye hear ye!!!
Once again, I invite all community members young and old to the events listed in the first post of this thread to get first hand experience of greatness going on in the high school. Hundreds of kids of all skin colors will be represented! |
eab
Citizen
Username: Eab
Post Number: 30
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 15, 2004 - 7:08 pm: | |
Not sure if this is the right thread, but...
The Gospel Chorus of CHS serenaded our church today with songs (yeah, Black History Month) and a more polite, well-spoken and golden-throated group of teens could not be found. And they had to sit with us and eat lunch, too. They were a living advertisement for CHS. |
Redsox
Citizen
Username: Redsox
Post Number: 416
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 6:41 pm: | |
declining state ranking
borderline sat score average
illegal students
pc vs. abc
denial
drink the koolaide
decry those who don't |
kathy
Citizen
Username: Kathy
Post Number: 758
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 6:37 pm: | |
Redsox is doing his Dead White Male imitation. |
Diversity Man
Citizen
Username: Deadwhitemale
Post Number: 650
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 8:31 pm: | |
Thanks, Kathy.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
I did demand a Yankees sweatshirt draped on the back of a chair in an office be removed before I would sit in it.
This was witnessed at 157 Chambers Street, 4th floor, on 17 Feb. 04 - in an office.
Those witnesses would need a subpoena before appearing on-line.
But, truth be told, I am not a Red Sox fan.
I am a truth in education fan.
That's why I love the Board of Ed and Super H.
DWM
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