ORANGE COUNTY'S TOP HIGH SCHOOLS--AREN'T IN COSTA MESA
Here's the LINK to the OC REGISTER'S feature on the 63 public High Schools in Orange County that appears in today's paper.
The Register has a lot of information about schools, so if you want to get things down to the nth degree, be sure to navigate around when you visit the paper's site.
For our purposes, it's probably enough to say that the worst schools in the ring of cities were in Santa Ana. Santa Ana's Century High School came in dead last at 63.
In Costa Mesa, Costa Mesa H/S came in at 58 and Estancia ranked as 51.
Corona del Mar came in at 12 and Newport Harbor came in at 37.
Newport Beach's rankings are driven down by having many Costa Mesa students in that city's schools. It's sad but true.
Irvine's High Schools came in as follows: Woodbridge 10; Northwood 9; Irvine 5; University 3.
Remember, the lower the number, the better the school.
WHY THESE RANKINGS MATTER
When upwardly mobile young families look for homes, the price of homes is not always the most important factor. They look for homes near schools that are high-performing so their kids can get a leg up on life.
Costa Mesa is losing too many of these families to South County. It's important, if we want to make Costa Mesa a nicer city, that we be the kind of city where these folks will want to live and raise their kids.
We need to get our school rankings up.
We can't do that, however, as long as we are an illegal alien sanctuary city.
Please don't make the mistake of saying that Costa Mesa has failing schools or bad teachers. We don't. The problem is that we have too many failing students and they're driving down the scores in our schools.
Costa Mesa's "bad school" problem is not a school or school district problem. It is a city problem. It can only be fixed by the City Council, not the School Board.
And, how can it be fixed by the City Council?
By turning Costa Mesa back into a First World City by getting us off the downward path to becoming a full-blown Third World City.
How many Santa Anas do we need in Orange County, anyway? Isn't one enough?
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GANG GRAFFITI COVERED UP
The gang graffiti in Katrina Foley's Mesa Del Mar neighborhood, that we reported in CM PRESS # 380, has now been covered up. If you missed it, don't worry, there will be more, maybe by tomorrow.
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NOMINATED FOR BEST FICTION BY MENSA
We just received notification from MENSA that one of our short fiction stories is up for another award from the high I.Q. society.
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Those are our opinions. Thanks for reading them.
