After enduring many painful issues in the public school, I searched long and hard for an AFFORDABLE alternative for my daughter’s middle school years. I was blessed to stumble upon Ivy Prep. The teachers, administration and scholars are WONDERFUL! When they say there is no tolerance of things like: fighting, verbal abuse, weapon possession, bullying, etc., they mean it. I cannot say the same for what I experienced before Ivy Prep.

We, the parents of Ivy Prep make an ultimate sacrafice in return for a top-notched education. We “MUST” provide our own transportation, lunches and pay for uniforms. Our girls do not have a gymnasium or some of the other luxurious programs that are provide in your regular public school due to low funding. But what we do get is teachers who care and go the extra mile to make sure that are children are EDUCATED.

It has been said that we are stealing from the Gwinnett County School System. Well, I disagree! Do you know that Ivy Prep still receives far less funding for each student than your traditional public school? If our children were attending the public schools in their areas wouldn’t they reap the benefits of a more expensive education? They way I look at it, the Gwinnett County School system is saving money and my daughter is receiving a quality education…so who’s losing here?

PLEASE HELP US SAVE OUR SCHOOL!

Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (GSMST) mission is to nurture the talents of high potential students (NOT OPEN ENROLLMENT) as is the definition of a Charter School.

(iii) Charter schools are public schools of open enrollment. As such, charter schools may not use admissions criteria or admissions applications that would not otherwise be used at a traditional public school. Charter schools may not use enrollment applications that require submission of letters of recommendation, essays, resumes, or other narrative summaries of a student’s school or community activities, grades, test scores, attendance record, or disciplinary history.

Required GSMST Advisement Checklist Form
Students interested in registering for GSMST must schedule an advisement appointment with their
GCPS middle school counselor OR a GSMST counselor in order for the registration process to be
complete. Parents must accompany students in the advisement session. This Advisement Checklist
Form should be reviewed and completed during the advisement appointment.
Counselors: Please place your initials in the blank as you discuss each item with the student at the
advisement appointment. Use the attached pages as a guide as you complete this check-list. Your
assistance in the GSMST Registration Process is greatly appreciated.
______Review standardized test scores for students who have been successful at GSMST.
______Compare student’s test scores with scores of students who have been successful at
GSMST (provided by student permanent file at middle school or compiled from StART and
entered into attached table).
o 8th Grade ITBS
o 8th Grade CogAT
o 7th Grade Gateway
o 7th Grade CRCT

Seems they are being shortchanged to the tune of about $1200 per student by the county.

Ivy Preparatory Academy

perhaps the parents of the 250 young ladies at New Life acad. should file a suit against GCPS for sex descrimination. Obviously the system feels it should be cheaper to educate girls.

Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology

Why? cause it’s the only one the system has approved and is operated by the system to provide for the brightest. A CHARTER for less than the stellar, supported by local funding? Naw–we will take that one to court.

WTG ALVIN, Dan, Louise, Robert, Mary & Carole, your true colors are showing! You may have trouble hiding them come next elections. hmmm, 2010? that would be Danny and Bobby

since the blog gremlins ate my last response I’ll give it another shot.

From what i understand the state has not said the system must spend local dollars what they’ve said is that they will withold STATE FUNDING–equal to Local funding being witheld by the county and use these funds to support the charters. So the question then is can the state dictate how state funding for schools is spent? I’m guessing there is plenty of precident that says they can.

So lets spend a couple million fighting this and when we lose we can claim the money spent in the courtroom was better spent than had it been spent in the classroom.