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Originally Posted by Pete
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I would say this is very good news for Fort Bragg High School Students. Now they go to E E Smith.
Of course at the bottom of the story is...
One parent said Friday she has issues with E.E. Smith High School, where Fort Bragg students are assigned, while Sicinski said his daughter has had a good experience at the school.
Carrie Sutton, a former school board chairwoman, said she thinks Fort Bragg wants to build a charter school because officers' wives don't want their children to attend E.E. Smith. She said she thinks charter schools can lead to segregation.
Earle called Sutton's statement "very unfortunate."
"I'm not going to say any more, but that's very unfortunate," he said...."
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I'm glad to hear this is happening. I went to a different high school in Fayetteville in the late '80's and E.E. Smith had a terrible reputation even back then. When I was stationed at Bragg a couple of years back, it didn't look like things had changed. Maybe it is different now, but I don't think so.
IMO, back when I was in high school the only thing that was holding Smith together was the Fort Bragg dependents, who were typically more motivated, better disciplined, and more academically inclined. I totally understand why E.E. Smith wouldn't want this to happen, they'd lose a lot of their best students. At the same time though, if I had high school-aged children and I lived at Bragg, I'd want them to go to a different school than Smith.
I don't know where the "segregation" argument comes from, the only "segregation" will be between dependents and non-dependents, it has nothing to do with race.
