Sunday, May 9, 2010

What Those Scholarship Folks Don't Understand

So...skunked again on state and national scholarship winners. Don't these people KNOW how smart our kids are? Don't they read the STAR and see those exhaustively lengthy lists of honor roll students?


And what about our perfect 4.0 kids? We have 21 seniors and 25 juniors who posted perfect 4.0 GPAs for the third quarter....and none of them was worthy of a major scholarship?


We've been robbed!!!!!


Did we mention that the 3rd quarter honor roll lists were released in the last couple of weeks?
Ho-hum!


High school
QTR2... 41% made the honor roll; QTR3...what do you know...41% made the honor roll.
QTR2 81 kids (1 of 20 kids) scored a perfect 4.0; QTR3... 82 kids


Middle school
Lo and behold...we did have a slight decline here. Is someone listening?
QTR2... 60% (840)made the honor roll; QTR3...what do you know...only 55% (770) made the honor roll this time. Slackers!


But...some of the middle scholars are actually doing better.
116 kids scored a perfect 4.0 in QTR3, compared to only 103 in QTR2.


Timelines - Comparing Honor rolls 2008 vs 2010
We thought it would be interesting to dig into the archives and see how things compare to 2 years ago....you may recall...that fateful error that put 83% of high school kids on the honor roll? In retrospect, some are wondering if that wasn't one of the final nails that Culver used to seal Paul Keats' fate.


Well...we compared the high school and middle schools, and hey...at least we have consistency going for us. In 3rd quarter 2008 41% of high schoolers made the honor roll...same as in 2010. In 3rd quarter 2008, 55% of middle schoolers made the honor roll, same as in 2010. The one significant difference was the for 3rd quarter 2008, 18% of middle schoolers received a 4.0 GPA, while in 2010, less than half, 8.4%, made that grade.


Telling statistic?


Read the QTR 2 blogpost