Friday, September 24, 2010

National Merit Scholarships, good news and bad news

The National Merit Scholarship foundation recently announced the semifinalists for Northeast Indiana. The good news is that FWCS has one semifinalist, Peter Manges, from Snider High School. Congratulations to Peter and good luck toward becoming a finalist. Actually luck has nothing to do with it. If he becomes a finalist, he will have earned it.

The bad news is that one semifinalist in all five high schools ties FWCS with home schoolers. Canterbury, where FWCS school board president Mark GiaQuinta sent his kids, had eight semifinalist, Dwenger and Homestead each had two and Carroll had one. Yeah, I know, it's not "fair" to expect kids from FWCS to do as well as those from suburban districts. It's more expedient to push them though our "LEAD" schools with social promotion and give them a diploma to get them out the door. Let them find out what "fair" means when they they get into the real world.

A long, long time ago my graduating class at SSHS had ten finalists and twice that number of semifinalists. My how things have changed. For the worse.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's fair to have the urban students do well as the suburban students. High standards for all students in any school system are the fact that schools push their students hard! I have been in classrooms in the suburban where there are lazy teachers, in addition to urban classrooms. However, what I have found that is there a number of lazy teachers and administrators not pushing their students in FWCS. There are enough community members, Shirley Woods, Jonathon Ray, Joe Jordan and others who are leading the efforts to ensure that students receive instruction afterschool, in addition to all the extra field trips, etc. The problem becomes that the students are usually 2 or more years behind, not because of the parents, but so many FWCS has just given up. Sad, but true.

Anonymous said...

Pete Manges is the son of Tim Manges, the former City of Fort Wayne attorney.

Spencer Clay said...
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Code Blue Schools said...

They start behind, so that's why it's so important to make an all out effort to get them caught up by third grade. I can understand why teachers in higher grades give give up as the need for remediation grows. The can ony do so much of it.

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