  Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 4002 Registered: 10-2003 |
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/article?AID=/20071204/NEW S01/712040319/1001/NEWS quote: | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 2304 Registered: 04-2006 |
That's great. | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 2309 Registered: 04-2006 |
No one had anything else to say? | ||
Toog05 Member Username: Toog05 Post Number: 164 Registered: 03-2006 |
Cass Tech class of '05 baby! | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 4107 Registered: 02-2005 |
Goes to show that motivated students/concerned parents in DPS can seek out schools that are not only adequate but will permit the student to excel. From my knowledge, there is a pretty substantial pipeline from Cass Tech to U-M. | ||
Mayor_sekou Member Username: Mayor_sekou Post Number: 1769 Registered: 09-2006 |
Cass Tech students are everywhere 6/10 black students at State I swear are former Cass kids. Meanwhile I can count us Murray Wright students on one hand. But this is good news that is not that surprising to people who have been dealing with these schools. | ||
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336 Post Number: 3873 Registered: 02-2007 |
Cass has had the honor before, good to see 4 more. with all the consistently negative crap out there about detroit schools, this should have gotten MUCH more play than what I saw | ||
Bobj Member Username: Bobj Post Number: 3185 Registered: 11-2003 |
That is great! | ||
English Member Username: English Post Number: 619 Registered: 10-2003 |
HOORAY!•••••••••••• Go Renaissance! (Class of 1995) Go Davis Aerospace! (Staff, 1999) Go Cass Tech! (Staff, 2001-2005) ...and "Go King!" (Just for being the first PSL State Champions!) Glad the nation's finding out what many, many universities, employers, and especially GRADUATES already know! | ||
Toog05 Member Username: Toog05 Post Number: 165 Registered: 03-2006 |
English, you were a staff member at Cass 2001-2005, who are you? | ||
English Member Username: English Post Number: 620 Registered: 10-2003 |
Post your email & I'll contact you.  | ||
Toog05 Member Username: Toog05 Post Number: 166 Registered: 03-2006 |
toog03@hotmail.com | ||
English Member Username: English Post Number: 621 Registered: 10-2003 |
You've got mail! Always nice to meet a Technician! | ||
Popcanman55 Member Username: Popcanman55 Post Number: 10 Registered: 08-2006 |
English would you happen to have been Mr. payne's student teacher in 99? Did you also attend Bates Academy? | ||
English Member Username: English Post Number: 622 Registered: 10-2003 |
I sure did attend Bates! And yes, Mr. Payne was my mentor (and former teacher @ Ren!) Are you a Bates or Davis alum? | ||
Trstar Member Username: Trstar Post Number: 13 Registered: 05-2007 |
DPS has some good schools and many good students. Its just that DPS is wildly inconsistent. Plus the press won't run this with much fanfare, because it doesn't fit into the "DPS is crap dogma". Often a little acknowledgment and encouragement can add to changing the attitudes in this region. Thats why I so glad that a DPS team finally won a State football championship. Anyway its the parents that makes the student and the school, not the other way around. Congrats Parents. Obligatory CT shout out here. | ||
Crystal Member Username: Crystal Post Number: 81 Registered: 05-2007 |
My Mom is a proud graduate of Cass Tech, class of 1948.  | ||
Hamtragedy Member Username: Hamtragedy Post Number: 18 Registered: 10-2007 |
Would you be referring to Mr. Payne at Ren who loved Diana Ross so much he put a cutout of his face in a magazine shot with Ms. ross, which he kept under the glass on his desk? Or how 'bout "we love vocab" button on his lapel? RHS '85 | ||
Durango Member Username: Durango Post Number: 39 Registered: 10-2006 |
Hamtradedy, I was in the class of '86 at RHS. I was in Mr.Payne's junior English class in the basement of the old building. I remember his obsession with Diana Ross and the daily vocabulary drills. Mr. Payne and Mr. Arbogast in Latin class were very helpful with the development of my vocabulary. | ||
Hamtragedy Member Username: Hamtragedy Post Number: 19 Registered: 10-2007 |
I graded your papers and checked off the extra credit for daily use of the vocab words of the week....in the basement. Also the year before, did the same thing for the 84's who were juniors or seniors, only on the first floor. My brother gradyated in 89. Also a vocab snob. As I recall, Cass was rated one the top 5 schools in the country in 1984. I think the extremely broad curricula had a lot to do with that. Several friends that went to Cass and grew up in Grandmont never held back an opportunity to rub it in some RHS kids face how good they thought they were, and they were everything from singers, theater people and photographers, to auto mechanics. . Still in contact with several Technicians and RHS people from 80's. My father's a Technician from 1960, so I caught that same business at home too...... | ||
Durango Member Username: Durango Post Number: 40 Registered: 10-2006 |
Hamtradedy, Now, I remember Mr. Payne always had an assistant in his classes who sat at a table to the right of his desk. I had several friends who went to Cass and they would always boast about the history of Cass the school's tradition. The reality was many of them didn't pass the test to get into Renaissance at the time. I am still in contact with several people from Renaissance and Cass as well. Renaissance and Cass were great schools at the time and they are still good schools today. I am glad to find another person who has some positive memories of Detroit and Renaissance. I am sorry I don't remember your name. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 5695 Registered: 11-2003 |
jjaba is a Cass Tech. Printer, Class of 1959. At that time, Cass Tech. had 5,000 students, from every corner of Detroit, including the Chinese who lived so close it was their neighborhood high school. Wing Lee was a Cass Tech. Printer jjaba remembers. jjaba. | ||
Durango Member Username: Durango Post Number: 41 Registered: 10-2006 |
Jjaba, It looks like you're burning the midnight oil in the midwest. I am currently riding out a snow storm in Denver. I wish Renaissance had a history as long and rich as that of Cass Tech. I better start a Renaissance trend to see what we have amassed year to date. | ||
Popcanman55 Member Username: Popcanman55 Post Number: 11 Registered: 08-2006 |
English Yes I am both a Bates and Davis alum. I was actually in Mr. Payne's class when you were student teaching. Lets just say our mothers worked together at Bates mine still does. I believe you also when to school with my older brother and maybe sister. | ||
Irish_mafia Member Username: Irish_mafia Post Number: 1152 Registered: 10-2003 |
That's great! | ||
Leoqueen Member Username: Leoqueen Post Number: 1668 Registered: 07-2004 |
Leoqueen is a PROUD CASS TECH ALUMNA, Class of 1972!! My daughter is a current Technician, Class of 2010! And a shout out to my Aunt Etta in heaven, Cass class of 1929, who just passed away at age 96.... | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 10941 Registered: 10-2003 |
No surprise on who is not commenting on this thread. Congrats to the students and teachers of these four outstanding DPS schools. | ||
Hamtragedy Member Username: Hamtragedy Post Number: 21 Registered: 10-2007 |
jjaba, I'm an avid reader of your posts. Hamtragedy, on the River to Greenfield, transfer to dexter (@outer drive) or just walk | ||
Hamtragedy Member Username: Hamtragedy Post Number: 22 Registered: 10-2007 |
jjaba, I'm an avid reader of your posts. Great grandfather drove the interurban to Mt. clemens. Grandfather took him lunches at the concord yard, rode for free. Hamtragedy, on the River to Greenfield, transfer to dexter (@outer drive) or just walk. | ||
Scruffy Member Username: Scruffy Post Number: 24 Registered: 04-2007 |
Does anyone know what the make-up of the student body is at the School for Fine and Performing Arts? Do they allow students from outside the district? | ||
Broken_main Member Username: Broken_main Post Number: 1351 Registered: 06-2005 |
And of course let me chime in CASS TECH c/0 1983. Congrats to all of the schools that have been honored!••• GO DPS | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 10944 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote: When they opened the new place they had expected a pretty high number of students from the suburbs. Not sure how the numbers came in in that regard. | ||
English Member Username: English Post Number: 624 Registered: 10-2003 |
Hey there, Popcanman! I know exactly who you are! I brought a number of my undergrads to Bates last month to see "excellence in urban education". I saw your mom (although I'm not sure she recognized me). She says you're all doing well... great to chat with a fellow Bates alumni. (If you haven't already, join our Yahoo! group!) And yes, Mr. Payne was wonderful to more than 4 decades of students. I was lucky enough to have him as my student teaching supervisor during the last semester of his career. However, the last I heard, he had taken ill and is now living with his daughter in Chicago (Allison Payne, a WGN anchorwoman). I'd love to send holiday greetings to him, but need to get the address from the contact. | ||
Dabirch Member Username: Dabirch Post Number: 2488 Registered: 06-2004 |
A fantastic accomplishment for the schools to be sure. But they are accomplishments that need to be tempered by the methodology. quote: If the first test was passed - i.e. modified for statistical fact that economically disadvantaged students performed worse, then it is on the the second test: quote: Ultimately, the methodology, it appears, is trying to level the playing field vs. looking strictly at the top performing high schools in the country. Not taking anything away from the Detroit high schools that made the list - but it does not mean that Bad Axe High School actually performs better than Grosse Pointe South. | ||
Parkguy Member Username: Parkguy Post Number: 168 Registered: 04-2007 |
"Ultimately, the methodology, it appears, is trying to level the playing field vs. looking strictly at the top performing high schools in the country." This kind of statistical analysis is designed to show which schools do better than would be expected given the conditions they operate in. Schools are often compared this way to show which ones give the most "bang for the buck," to look at best practices, and so on. | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 783 Registered: 03-2007 |
Congrats to current faculty...and every grad of the four named schools...from a Denby TAR '59...if only my school were still one of the top schools in the city. | ||
Jaja Member Username: Jaja Post Number: 3 Registered: 12-2007 |
CASS TECH 1963 grad..... I remember back then some ranking that put Cass Tech second (or maybe third) in the country behind the Bronx High School Science... A sad note... last week one of the best Cass Tech chemistry teachers... Harold Merritt passed away... | ||
Young_detroiter Member Username: Young_detroiter Post Number: 215 Registered: 08-2004 |
Do not forget to mention CMA, which also received a Bronze ranking. I am a proud alumnus of Communication and Media Art's Class of 2005! Alright, maybe DPS will stop trying to shut it down now. (Message edited by Young_detroiter on December 18, 2007) | ||
Islandman Member Username: Islandman Post Number: 1254 Registered: 08-2004 |
English, I went to Bates as well (first graduating class). Are from the old guard or the new? Did you attend the reunion last year? Class of '88 Cass Tech! |
