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kyugy

A sad end for a fine institution...

May 22, 2005 01:35

It was announced yesterday that my old high school will be closing it's doors at the end of this year and never opening them again. Bayley Ellard has finally been shut down by the diocese. It was not the finest institution ever as far as academics go, and the student body had a higher average of delinquents, sex fiends and drug users, but that ( Read more... )

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webmistress_liz May 22 2005, 23:11:41 UTC

i don't care, and let me tell you why...

i graduated 5 years ago...

kyugy May 23 2005, 05:25:11 UTC

Yeah, but consider this: we met at Bayley. Imagine how many people aren't going to meet and become friends because that school is gone. I got a lot out of Bayley, and it's not like they can take any of that away from me, but it's for all those kids who won't get the same chances to meet great people and make great friends that I'm truly sad for. Bayley was a special place, and now that place is gone, and it sucks for all those people who wanted to go there...

webmistress_liz May 24 2005, 21:22:07 UTC

fate is fate... consider all the people who DIDN'T meet because their parents threw them in private schools... i mean... the only thing that sucks is all the underprivelaged kids who have to either pay more or find another cheap high school that isn't in newark or irvington...

and really... bayley was special in the short bus kind of way... some of my friends in college thought it was one of those high schools for the emotionally disturbed...

kyugy May 25 2005, 04:07:48 UTC

I stick to my previous statement that things would have turned out a lot wrose for me had it not been for Bayley, and I can think of quite a few other people who that applies to.

I'm not trying to pretend Bayley was a high school Harvard, but it was still a better alternative than a lot of other schools. A lot fewer people fell through the cracks at Bayley, especially the kids coming from Newark. The alternative for them would have been a public school that would have pushed them through and graduated them no matter what they did. I mean the literacy rate alone in the Newark high schools is enough to make a sane person sick. And there are a lot of publich schools in Morris county that would have just looked at lazy kids and figured they were brain dead and let them go. I'd like to think that while Bayley didn't save everyone, it at least made a better effort than the public school system.

webmistress_liz May 25 2005, 18:52:10 UTC

no, plenty of people slipped through the cracks... bayley let you graduate no matter what you did... trust me, i'm one of them...

like i said before, the people who benefited most from bayley were the people who's options were places like east side or berringer... for those kids, a private school their parents can afford, or one that will pay for them to go there, is their best bet...

i'm not saying bayley was hell on wheels, i'm just saying i don't mourn it's loss like you do because it wasn't this wonderland of knowledge... people did drugs in the bathrooms, cheated, lied, and got floated through just as much as in public school...

kyugy May 25 2005, 21:15:57 UTC

Maybe you're right and I'm just being nostalgic....but I really think that you underestimate just how bad a lot of the public schools have gotten in this state. But then again, it's a nationwide epidemic and education is on a downward slide across the boards. I think the idea that when I have kids they won't have any truly good options barring paying for a school like Delbarton makes me really sad ( ... )

webmistress_liz May 26 2005, 14:28:50 UTC

this is my future career, and to prepare i have to go to schools and be on the other side of the desk... i've learned that all schools in this country suck... the richer the district, the more expensive the drugs, and the less the students give a shit what is coming out of the teachers' mouths... at least in the poor districts kids have the concept of escape through education... it's faint, but it's there... nobody is going to buy their way outta there... their parents won't pay for college... it's up to them... and this is describing a small percentage of the students, but there is a very different atmosphere in the two kinds of districts... and bayley had plenty of drug problems... we just didn't hang out with the junkies... just because we didn't see it, doesn't mean it wasn't there... bayley was composed of everyone, so there was no overriding socio-economic standard we were witness to... and we got as much outta our education as we wanted to get, but regardless of how much anyone put in, everyone graduated... you were in the ( ... )

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