I personally don't think so..But looking at admissions from, say, Harvard in comparison to OSU.. It's a ten point difference on your ACT, and I won't even say anything about the SAT..
..I'm glad we're running an article on the standards of education this week in Satellite, because.. It really isn't just an issue of maybe high school students will be in uniforms in two years, or that kids can't afford uniforms, or school safety, or..whatever crap they're trying to justify it with. It's really that the standards in this town and in this country are failing it's people, and we're falling behind. Because literally everything is affected by the education you receive when you are trying to prepare yourself for life.
I hate to be a silly Booker T. magnet school kid, but really. Every school should be held up to our standard, and there's no excuse why the schools in this town are not held the standards that I know Jenks, Booker T., and other high testing schools in this state are being held to. It's laziness on the part of the school board, and their failing their students by refusing to admit the facts.
That they're openly happy and fine with opening a million dollar complex to teach kids how to flip burgers and apply for a food-handlers license, instead of teaching them and encouraging them to take college prep classes. (Yes, really.)
And that they don't want to have to take money away from, say, a river development project, to educate their next generation.