Originally Posted by Kurt Fortmeyer


The schools are terrible


Originally Posted by Stevens119
Really?...I liked my school. I would even go as far to say that it was a great school. Not disputing there are bad schools as well, but it depends on where around Nashville you live. But, It's like that everywhere. Terrible? You make it sound like the schools all have metal detectors to keep kids from bringing firearms in or something.

[quote=Kurt Fortmeyer]


Did you go to a public school in Davidson County? If so, then you probably didn't get enough of an education to understand what the statistics mean. An extremely small percentage of public school students are performing anywhere near their grade levels in any subject.
Metal detectors? Everybody knows that the state legislators made it legal to carry firearms into schools...no, wait a minute...that was bars.
When I first came out here, one of the first decisions I made was that my daughters would not finish high school here. I commuted to and from eastern North Carolina for three years to make sure that they both got to graduate from the school where they did. One graduated (Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude) from Brandeis University and is now in grad school at the University Of Texas in Austin, and the other went through Columbia University (NYC) and is now working on a Phd in Chemistry at Princeton. I'm convinced that their high school had a lot to do with it.


Nope, I didn't go to school in Davidson County, I went to school in Sumner County. But that's just as close to Nashville as Williamson County is, and they have some really nice schools there, just a couple of minutes from the middle of downtown...minus traffic. My point was that every city has rough patches, and a person could certainly get a worse education elsewhere. And if you bring the Nashville private schools into it, they are nice too..almost as nice as the public schools in the surrounding counties.