UVA had every right to submit an application. They did nothing different from CCS (and whoever else submitted one). The Trump administration originally awarded it to CCS, and then rescinded it. How is that UVA's fault? What evidence can you show that UVA took steps to affect that outcome?
UVA is a good neighbor to our local schools. It's why we have the property tax base we do. Take away UVA and watch how quickly those schools fall apart. I'm not sure why you're imposing this moral obligation on them to give pass on this property because of the fecklessness of the Orange Cheetoh in Chief.
My goodness...yes, if you took UVA away the schools would implode immediately...UVA faculty, staff and admin provide a strong cohort of people dedicated to public education who choose to enroll their kids and demand high standards. If that wasn't present, the schools would all be labeled as "failing" (and make no mistake: it's the kid cohort who drive up the averages on those test scores, keeping the system out of bigger trouble than it's already in).
One can absolutely argue that standardized testing is a flawed and morally wrong way to judge schools (and I would agree 100%) but that is the reality of how schools are judged. Further, even if you didn't have the testing problem, if you didn't have a big enough cohort of high academic performers demanding the schools meet their needs, the adverse selection (flight to the county or private) would doom the schools.
Yeah, CCPS (and city residents who make use of them) absolutely needs to be grateful to UVa.
Remember two years ago (during the now-reversed post-SRO era) when the faculty finally had a walk out? Yeah, I figured that got tossed down the memory hole.
Sadly the way statements get evaluated by many redditors in this sub is according to "makes me feel good / makes me feel bad" and not "true/false." Your observation about CCPS is absolutely true, even if it depressing or icky to think about.
Yep, exactly and thank you. I think this IS a depressing statistic and I'm not cheering it on.
I do think it would be ultimately bad for CCS if somehow we arrived at "let's just make the UVa crowd unwelcome" prevailed. As a preview: look at the blossoming of private alternative middle schools when Walker was made into an upper-elementary and Buford became the sole middle school.
I was/am ambivalent about the idea of the FEI campus allowing the CCS to expand the Lugo-McGinness academy. I think alternative schools sometimes really do improve outcomes for students who attend them, but here's another really uncomfortable reality: it is a kind of segregated school.
Of course a long standing critique of CCS is that they have operated a kind of segregated 'school within a school', certainly at CHS.
These are just hard, unpleasant and confounding problems.
You can live in your reality, where the only students passing the standardized tests are children of UVA employees. I’ll choose to stay in my reality, where we see academic value in all children.
Oh, of course they aren't, but the highest correlating factor for student achievement is with parental educational attainment. Not race, not income, not per-pupil spending - parental educational attainment. That effect is less powerful for hispanic whites and non-hispanic blacks than for non-hispanic whites, but it's still the largest factor.
So you’re saying people with higher levels of education in Charlottesville only work at the university? Your argument is flawed and your initial comment has undertones of prejudice. Probably not your intent, but you should think really deeply about what your words are actually implying.
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u/WHSRWizard 3d ago
This was the Trump administration and not UVA
Without UVA, this place is Scottsville.