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re: Rummel's enrollment numbers dwindling and principal to resign
Posted on 2/25/15 at 11:44 am to Hangover Haven
Posted on 2/25/15 at 11:44 am to Hangover Haven
Congrats I guess.
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Posted on 2/25/15 at 11:47 am to LNCHBOX
quote:I can give you an example of this very thing happening last year at Rummel. you know the "special program " that Rummel gets bashed for .
What schools are doing that?
quote:When have I discounted?? You cant argue with numbers. Jesuit obviously does a great job.
You kinda are.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 11:47 am to Hangover Haven
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I write my a/c man a check for $250 for a 45 minute a/c yearly service,
quote:
Rummel alum
go figure
Posted on 2/25/15 at 11:49 am to Hangover Haven
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I didn't mention how many a/c units, did I....
you said a 45 min yearly checkup...as in a single unit Flippy
Posted on 2/25/15 at 11:52 am to Hangover Haven
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"keeping up with the Joneses school".
Please elaborate. I know many people that have their kids there and have never got that impression from them.
This post was edited on 2/25/15 at 12:00 pm
Posted on 2/25/15 at 11:55 am to Slippy
quote:
There is no such "class." Those boys who are still on the accelerated track by their junior year spend the first quarter of Honors English IV doing a lot of PSAT prep.
I would be kinda pissed if my HS had wasted time teaching a standardized test.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 11:57 am to CrippleCreek
quote:
I would be kinda pissed if my HS had wasted time teaching a standardized test.
Accelerated track, not every student gets to do this. And those students are still doing other English class type assignments while prepping. Jesuit covers more than enough to prep for college
Posted on 2/25/15 at 12:05 pm to CrippleCreek
Here are the facts:
-Nola metro demographics have changed. Less baptized catholic babies
-Nola Metro Charter schools improvement have affected CHS enrollment
-Katrina changed the game and turned HC from an afterthought to the nicest campus in the city.
-Jesuit has a lot of NMS a year. The rest have about the same # per year which is around 1 or 2.
-Bishop Sullivan hates ARHS because they think ARHS purposesly made the floor sweat at their gym during a '96 basketball playoff game causing the game to be delayed resulting in a historic come from behind win for the Raiders!!
-Nola metro demographics have changed. Less baptized catholic babies
-Nola Metro Charter schools improvement have affected CHS enrollment
-Katrina changed the game and turned HC from an afterthought to the nicest campus in the city.
-Jesuit has a lot of NMS a year. The rest have about the same # per year which is around 1 or 2.
-Bishop Sullivan hates ARHS because they think ARHS purposesly made the floor sweat at their gym during a '96 basketball playoff game causing the game to be delayed resulting in a historic come from behind win for the Raiders!!
Posted on 2/25/15 at 12:07 pm to CrippleCreek
quote:
I would be kinda pissed if my HS had wasted time teaching a standardized test.
Definitely not up to the challenge of slaying the dragon
Posted on 2/25/15 at 12:23 pm to geauxtigers87
So I take that St Katherine of Siena is the "it" catholic elementary school in NOLA.
Kinda like what St George and aloysius is in BR?
Kinda like what St George and aloysius is in BR?
Posted on 2/25/15 at 12:26 pm to Modern
quote:
St Katherine
in metry brah
Posted on 2/25/15 at 12:31 pm to CrippleCreek
quote:
I would be kinda pissed if my HS had wasted time teaching a standardized test.
Well, my kid earned a full ride in college because of that wasted time. Horrible. Simply horrible.
Why are people such morons.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 1:14 pm to Modern
Some of the biggest degenerate shitheads I know come from St Catherine and Jesuit lineage. St Catherine is no different than any other catholic grammar school in jeff parish. They have some good and some bad
Posted on 2/25/15 at 1:15 pm to Slippy
Rummel 09 grad so I can speak accurately about a relatively recent Rummel experience. PSAT prep & the college application + scholarship process were the only 2 key issues I felt I was slighted on relative to other schools. I likely would have ended up at LSU regardless, so it's a fairly moot point.
I'm far from a brainiac but graduated near the top of Rummel & could have gotten into nearly every school that's not elite elite nationally. Unfortunately, paying for those schools without a great PSAT would have been a lot for even a fairly upper class family. Rummel allowed us to blindly walk into the PSAT without as much as a minute spent describing the test itself or material prep. It's extremely difficult to become national merit unless preparing on your own or being overwhelmingly intelligent. It's hard to fully appreciate how important national merit money is as a 16-17 y/o. I strongly believe I would have been national merit with a little work done to prepare for it.
I don't feel I was slighted on any course material, course load, or teacher effectiveness in the honors/AP curriculum there, but some guidance on the PSAT and an introduction to college applications would have been nice.
I'm far from a brainiac but graduated near the top of Rummel & could have gotten into nearly every school that's not elite elite nationally. Unfortunately, paying for those schools without a great PSAT would have been a lot for even a fairly upper class family. Rummel allowed us to blindly walk into the PSAT without as much as a minute spent describing the test itself or material prep. It's extremely difficult to become national merit unless preparing on your own or being overwhelmingly intelligent. It's hard to fully appreciate how important national merit money is as a 16-17 y/o. I strongly believe I would have been national merit with a little work done to prepare for it.
I don't feel I was slighted on any course material, course load, or teacher effectiveness in the honors/AP curriculum there, but some guidance on the PSAT and an introduction to college applications would have been nice.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 2:56 pm to CrippleCreek
quote:It's simple. When McGannon was still teaching the course (which would reach back into the 80s, don't know where this mysterious "brother" and his after school class came from), you studied ~3000 vocabulary words and worked practice sessions up to the test in October in addition to the "normal" course load of poetry and prose work covered in English IV.
I would be kinda pissed if my HS had wasted time teaching a standardized test.
You were directed towards the vocabulary list and exercises at the end of 10th grade (don't know where the materials in 8th grade thing came from), and you were expected to put in some work over the summer learning that vocabulary. You may have also taken a practice PSAT at the end of 10th grade, as well... don't remember, it's been a while. Oh, and there were poorly drawn pictures on the chalk board as motivation as well, but I'm doubting that the kids are squeezing an extra point or two out of that.
McGannon's retired now (which is just a strange thought for anyone who went through his class), so I have no clue what's changed at Jesuit in the last year or so. It's not some secret special work, class, or program, though. You just have to be willing to study a little more and work a little harder if you want to succeed.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 3:30 pm to CrazyTigerFan
My Jesuit 8th grader has a book of PSAT/SAT vocabulary that he has to use and make note cards from for English class, so yes it starts as early as 8th grade.
Doing well on the PSAT meant a National Merit scholarship for my daughter worth full tuition at her private college, equaling about $185,000 over four years. So Jesuit can prep my son for the PSAT until his ears bleed and I will not complain.
Doing well on the PSAT meant a National Merit scholarship for my daughter worth full tuition at her private college, equaling about $185,000 over four years. So Jesuit can prep my son for the PSAT until his ears bleed and I will not complain.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 3:31 pm to vistajay
quote:
My Jesuit 8th grader has a book of PSAT/SAT vocabulary that he has to use and make note cards from for English class, so yes it starts as early as 8th grade.
Where else would you like your kid to learn vocab from? That's not prepping for the test in 8th grade
ETA: At least not anymore than any other school teaching vocab to 8th graders, which I would hope all do.
This post was edited on 2/25/15 at 3:33 pm
Posted on 2/25/15 at 4:04 pm to LNCHBOX
This thread has truly fricked-up my Joxy...
Posted on 2/25/15 at 4:09 pm to RummelTiger
Can't believe it is still going.....
Posted on 2/25/15 at 4:10 pm to RummelTiger
I can only imagine
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