The Washington Post reports that SAT scores are down across the nation, but Howard County students have outperformed their peers. The average 2006 Howard County student received a 1636 (out of 2400, but I am not sure why there are two different writing scores listed for each of 2006 and 2007). In Maryland, the average score was 1511. The 2007 scores are actually slightly lower across the board, but not very much. Good job, kiddies!
Here is something that will bore you, but I think is interesting: I am certain that I have found a mistake in the Glenelg Country School general information brochure (pdf). According page 6 of the linked document, the average SAT results was 1217. This would have been a fairly good score back when I was taking the SATs (when they were out of 1600 total points), but now that score is not an acceptable average. Something tells me that the propagandists at Glenelg Country School forgot to add in the score of one of the three SAT sections. If that is not the case, many parents are paying $18,000 a year for tuition to send their kids to a school that is far below what they could get for free from the government. If one of the sections is in fact omitted from that score, and we divide by 2 and multiply by 3 to estimate the true total, it puts the average at 1825 which is more than 10% above that of public schools. I would curious to know what the deal is here.
We’d complain if the County was running gas stations, but we let them run our schools. Makes sense to me!
2 comments:
Glenelg Country is a Joke. Did you know Teachers don't even need to be certified to teach there. Infact, they don't even need to have degree in teaching.
Howard County Public School system is currently dealing with two pedophiles and someone who had crack in their car on school grounds- all certified teachers. Glenelg Country School will hire people that they know can do the job; the reputation of the school is on the line. That is a pretty good incentive to get qualified people to teach.
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