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Melrose AP Scores

Great Article on Wicked Local Melrose today and props to the students who have taken on the challenge and to Principal Merrill and his staff for their support

http://melrose.wickedlocal.com/news/20170724/melrose-kids-earn-high-marks-on-advanced-placement-exams

The numbers speak for themselves. Great things have been happening at MHS the past several years and the quality of these kids continues to be seen in their college plans, their performance in the class room, on the athletic fields and in the community. Outstanding kids! Parents and teachers should be proud.

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Great news for the MHS students.

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AP scores mean jack. Those are scores from a relatively small segment of the school population. You need to look at SAT scores (an accumulation of knowledge and skills over the years) to get a representative view of Melrose students acheivement versus other districts.

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Guilfoil did its thing (that we taxpayers pay $900/month for) and put forward a fluffy little feelgood piece to convince Melrose parents who need to feel better about the lousy school system that in fact their darlings are in the school that proves that America is Great, most particularly that Melrose is Greatest and that they were not duped into paying ridiculous property taxes, inflated home prices, and obscene extortionist water-sewer bills (which of course they/we were/are). Those AP scores tell the superficially pleasant tale that too many desperately need and want to hear. The SAT scores and the college matriculation/graduation rates tell an entirely different story that the administration most definitely does not want publicized. Melrose continues to score BELOW the state average on the metrics that count for life. So sure, go ahead and drink the Koolaid since you clearly need to. The mess is not the fault of Melrose students but rather the fault of a bunch of parents who continue to prop up a bunch of frauds and failures as the so-called educators and administrators of the district. Get out your pompoms and rah-rah all you like, but that hasn't helped the students survive the ravages of an administration run by the likes of a wretched school committee/Mayor Dolan (self-proclaimed "education expert") under the hack job of their chosen Taymore or Casey before that. Melrose could and should be so much better. But sure, just look the other way and buy into the mindless crap that the PR agency puts out there for you to nosh on.

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Go on a real web-site and see that Melrose schools do not even show in the first fifty or more.[Psst]

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The poster above is correct Melrose schools do not show on the website.

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Not good for Melrose, CT, Mayor, MA and more in the administration.

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The homeowners, taxpayers, residents, and most of all the students. The students are forced to stay in this failed schools. We surely did not get our monies worth in Melrose.

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Casey and Taymore, such failure's to Melrose, wasted years now for the students. You did not get what you paid for buying a house in this city. You have to take a loan out to send your kids to a private school.

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MHS graduates 3 or 4 years running have killed it in the college admissions and scholarship arena. Take a look at the college admissions list of all the local private schools and where the Melrose residents have gone on to.. They pale in comparison to MHS. I have hard more parents choking on their private school bills and loans making the decision to send their kid to state school because they didn't have the money for the college their kid wanted to go to...meanwhile MHS kids are crushing it with the best schools in New England. $60,000 for MC or AP...save your money folks.

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I don't know about that
MHS graduates 3 or 4 years running have killed it in the college admissions and scholarship arena. Take a look at the college admissions list of all the local private schools and where the Melrose residents have gone on to.. They pale in comparison to MHS. I have hard more parents choking on their private school bills and loans making the decision to send their kid to state school because they didn't have the money for the college their kid wanted to go to...meanwhile MHS kids are crushing it with the best schools in New England. $60,000 for MC or AP...save your money folks.


what a crock

The bee up Vuvu/Clown's butt must be buzzing again....

MHS apologist showing how pathetic MHS and its apologists are, once again.

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Melrose 2016 SAT ( a true test of cumulative knowledge and college readiness)scores at the bottom of the barrel in the Middlesex league and in comparison to surrounding communities of similar socio-economic standing. Read it and weep on DESE website. Seems to be we have even gone backwards in some cases since CT has clawed her fangs into our school system. Expect more of the same as she seems to have something on Dolan. Any school competent committee would have been rid of her by year two, but not Driscoll and her angels.

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dumb all around
I don't know about that
MHS graduates 3 or 4 years running have killed it in the college admissions and scholarship arena. Take a look at the college admissions list of all the local private schools and where the Melrose residents have gone on to.. They pale in comparison to MHS. I have hard more parents choking on their private school bills and loans making the decision to send their kid to state school because they didn't have the money for the college their kid wanted to go to...meanwhile MHS kids are crushing it with the best schools in New England. $60,000 for MC or AP...save your money folks.


what a crock

The bee up Vuvu/Clown's butt must be buzzing again....

MHS apologist showing how pathetic MHS and its apologists are, once again.


Wait until MEF Jen McA and Margaret D compete and clash during SC meetings.
Dolan will back Jen for SC Chair.

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Margaret versus Jen
dumb all around
I don't know about that
MHS graduates 3 or 4 years running have killed it in the college admissions and scholarship arena. Take a look at the college admissions list of all the local private schools and where the Melrose residents have gone on to.. They pale in comparison to MHS. I have hard more parents choking on their private school bills and loans making the decision to send their kid to state school because they didn't have the money for the college their kid wanted to go to...meanwhile MHS kids are crushing it with the best schools in New England. $60,000 for MC or AP...save your money folks.


what a crock

The bee up Vuvu/Clown's butt must be buzzing again....

MHS apologist showing how pathetic MHS and its apologists are, once again.


Wait until MEF Jen McA and Margaret D compete and clash during SC meetings.
Dolan will back Jen for SC Chair.


Once, they are in office, it is so hard to get then out. She will destroy Melrose.

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It did not help the residents the 900 hundred a month for the disgusting schools and principals she hired.

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Naiveté 101
Guilfoil did its thing (that we taxpayers pay $900/month for) and put forward a fluffy little feelgood piece to convince Melrose parents who need to feel better about the lousy school system that in fact their darlings are in the school that proves that America is Great, most particularly that Melrose is Greatest and that they were not duped into paying ridiculous property taxes, inflated home prices, and obscene extortionist water-sewer bills (which of course they/we were/are). Those AP scores tell the superficially pleasant tale that too many desperately need and want to hear. The SAT scores and the college matriculation/graduation rates tell an entirely different story that the administration most definitely does not want publicized. Melrose continues to score BELOW the state average on the metrics that count for life. So sure, go ahead and drink the Koolaid since you clearly need to. The mess is not the fault of Melrose students but rather the fault of a bunch of parents who continue to prop up a bunch of frauds and failures as the so-called educators and administrators of the district. Get out your pompoms and rah-rah all you like, but that hasn't helped the students survive the ravages of an administration run by the likes of a wretched school committee/Mayor Dolan (self-proclaimed "education expert") under the hack job of their chosen Taymore or Casey before that. Melrose could and should be so much better. But sure, just look the other way and buy into the mindless crap that the PR agency puts out there for you to nosh on.

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The students of Melrose have to $uck up the 15 years or more of rotten administration. This administration only hire low salary staff. Melrose has hit a low.