re: Where is a good place to live in north Atlanta

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it has a significant amount of low income families that Walton and Lassiter do not have. That makes it a worse school, what do you not understand about that.

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I just don't think that makes it a bad school. You have to teach the students you are given. When I applied to colleges, nobody held it against me that I went to sprayberry.

Like, If I were to conduct a experiment to determine which school was the best, I'd keep all the teachers/faculty/principal/facilities/etc. from each school, then I'd put a random sample of freshmen,sophs,jrs,srs and place them in each school so that no school has an advantage, then I'd test before/after the year. Then I'd do this enough times to where I had a big enough sample size to conclude something.

If you did that, I'd be shocked if you could conclude any school was definitively better than the other. Maybe if one school could recruit better teachers, but I don't believe they can. Likewise, I think if you picked a random high-school aged kid and put him in Sprayberry, I don't think he'd be any worse-off than if you put him at Lassiter/Walton.

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I'm not even trying to hate on Sprayberry

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Its cool. I ain't mad. I just hear this all the time having gone to sprayberry and I've come to defend my school's honor.

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Well by that logic all schools are equal and there is basically no way of saying one school is better than another

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Haha thats my general philosophy.

I think you can make an obvious case that private schools are generally better though because they can spend more money on better teachers/facilities/etc.. And obviously Some public schools are better than others because they get better local funding and recruit smarter teachers from better local colleges. But within East Cobb, cmon... I'd prefer to go to sprayberry and save a hunnid grand on a home.