First off, let's make it clear that it's pretty much impossible to make apples-to-apples comparisons between high-quality high schools across the country and that it's mostly to sell issues that Newsweek and now U.S. News & World Report are making the Quixotian attempt to rank America's high schools. (That goes quintuple for Newsweek and the ranking algorithm that they must have spent minutes figuring out: AP tests taken divided by students.) Despite that, it is heartening to see that U.S. News' (less stupid) methodology has found that Benji's high school in 12 years or so, Adlai Stevenson High School, is the best traditional (i.e. public, open-enrollment, non-magnet) high school in Illinois and one of the 30 or so best traditional schools in America. Yay Stevenson.
Also yay Ames High School for being named in the same rankings as one of the best two public schools in Iowa. Ames Hi aims high, etc.
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
