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No one has asked what is a solution that any student from any high school has access to. My message all along wasn't really to bash IUSD high schools; it was to clarify the truth of things. For my own baby, when the time comes, I won't be worried about which high school he goes to. We'll stay...

In life, you rarely get a true second chance at anything, but community college is exactly that. If you maintain at least half A's and half B's at a California community college, you'll have a UC waiting for you. And when you apply to a 4-year school, they no longer need an SAT score or high...

So in that 2015 thread with WillJoy and Bones and you, there was some misunderstanding with what Bones meant when he said he sees a "humanitarian" trip to a third-world country as inauthentic. Bones simply meant it needs to be a real, extended effort over a number of years that shows real...

Yes, pretty much going to a high school that gives the student a REALLY good chance to get into the top colleges, and the IUSD high schools are no longer designed for that.

Please don't misunderstand me. Troy, Oxford, Del Norte, Sagehill, Sunny Hills, they all have a bunch of tracks/tiers. So there might not be too much harm in letting your high schooler chill in the lower tracks at some of the best high schools, where they can stay out of the rat race at the top...

Yes, I did notice that. That's why I finally decided to chime in. From around 2010 up to now, the IUSD high schools are shit, except for University HS, which is more like higher status feces, like Kopi Luwak coffee. Note that I haven't made any references to elementary schools. I feel that as...

Not just that. Different regions use different tests. Even within a state, a lot of things are looked at. Impossible task really to sort out thousands of high schools. So lots of shortcuts are made.

A ton of stuff. Really.

When was your birthday?

So you are saying send Kaos and Akula into China?

Then let's just compare the present IUSD to the one 15-20 yrs ago. All the reputation IUSD has on rankings websites and Zillow and through the grapevine are outdated. The top students at University HS also think their school sucks and credit their performances not to their teachers or school...

You are calling him fat?

You are not part of the 3rd group that you mention.

Liar Loan, thank you for your thoughtful way to say those people are in certain contexts dumb!

I don't want to state it explicitly, but I will say that if I stated it, all races involved would be angry!

Yes, others and I have a leading hypothesis as to why IUSD wanted to dumb down its math and science. We have evidence from several angles.

Did you ever consider the possibility that Caltech, Harvard, Amherst, and even Berkeley students might in large part be conditioned early on in their intellectual lives to be extremely skeptical of "far left brainwashed education"? So the fact that you regurgitate that stereotyped cliche notion...

The best schools we have close to Irvine are, in order of rank, Troy, Whitney, and Oxford Academy. All three schools are superior to University HS in Irvine, which is the flagship of the IUSD high schools (the rest, in order of rank, are Northwood, Woodbridge, Irvine (for the pot smokers), and...

Wear masks. Don't politicize.

I'm not sure about the difference in quality. I agree part of that perception might come from the number and level of options. Cal Pac options are kept very basic, but you can get mostly what you want aside from some greater limitations, in my opinion, on backsplash/shower tiles. In addition...