Dear Editor:
The News Tribune weighed in on recent ACT test results indicating Helias, Calvary Lutheran, and Blair Oaks high schools' test results are not necessarily indictive of smarter students. I believe this is only a partial truth, but it is less about financial advantage and more about social and lack of traditional family structure. The ACT is not a total litmus test to future success, but it is a good indicator.
Then more recently the two, local public high schools were compared with regard to the Annual Performance Review (APR) - "Blair Oaks at 98.9 percent and Jefferson City at 76.1 percent, a wider margin above minimum accreditation. I am certainly not impressed either at maintaining such a dismal level of accreditation above the minimum 70 percent.
We got our tax bills for 2016 recently, an increase in both personal property due to a car purchase and a $239 increase in property taxes due to schools' funding - 17.5 percent. For those in "Rio Lind" that is: 0.175 x $1,374, "oh never mind," you'd never get it. Too bad this increase will never translate to an increase in academic results. But, I do wonder if there will be a wide margin of academic ratings of the two high schools when complete - but, I doubt it. See above; there appears to me a similar family structure and value system in many areas on both sides of the school district - something that does not exist in the Wardsville area.