Archive for September 16th, 2011

Hey, I Know That Place!

Posted September 16, 2011 By Dave Thomer

Another off night tonight, but while I was looking on thenotebook.org for details on the latest contract snafus in Philadelphia schools, I found this item that mentions my own school a couple of times:

Students face long odds at many popular schools

Parkway Center City, where I teach, admits the smallest percentage of its applicants, and is one of the high schools in the city with the largest number of applicants. On the one hand, it’s certainly nice to know that lots of parents and students want to be part of our community. But it also reminds us that lots of parents and students want something from their education that they only feel they can get from a selective-admission school. There may be no getting around that, but it sure would be nice if there were even more of those options available for students across the city.