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QND's enrollment down for 8th straight year....I guess that puts a dent in the theory that the Whig is biased toward QND with its negative coverage of the public schools.
posted by Allthenewsthatfits at 6:11 AM
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It's hard to see a news item such as an enrollment report as favorable or unfavorable to QND. The same report about QPS would hardly be viewed as such. Let's be realistic here.
821 is right, not dent
It's hard for me to see any way that a story about eight years of enrollment declines at a largely tuition-financed private institution is not bad news. When the Whig put bad news about QPS at the top of Page One, commentators cried out that it was biased in favor of QND.
If QHS enrollment is going in the opposite direction, you might have a point.
5 grand a year to go to QND. Thats enough to piss anyone off. Go QHS!
Why would anyone pay $$$ to send their kid to QND's daily fashion show? The curriculum at QHS is much more broad. If you raised them to have a desire to learn, QHS is far an away better for them. If you raised them to compete with their peers on who has the most $ and who can be the snootiest, waste your $$$ and send them to QND.
There's plenty of QND-QHS bashing in previous posts and other blogs, thanks. My point remains that this was definitely a bad-news story.
Public school enrollment reflects an area's demographic trends. Private school enrollment reflects the conscious choices of parents to send their children to that particular school. And each one of those kids who doesn't go to QND, as Mr. Mad as Hell observes, is a direct $5,000 dent in the QND budget. Although the QND Foundation kicks in its million-plus every year to help finance the school, try telling every teacher, cook, or maintenance worker at the place that declining enrollment is not bad news.
Overall, however, I do agree with the premise that QPS's coverage in the Whig has more negative elements than QND's. I wouldn't attribute all of that to bias, however. As a public body, QPS has to hang out its dirty laundry for everyone to see, while a private institution such as QND has fewer such legal obligations.
as an outsider, what I really find funny is the parents who come to this discussion as if they were in high school.
"My school is better than yours because..."
If you take a step back, it is pretty important to have choices in everything, including education.
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