Superintendents from Montclair, Verona, Tenafly and Montgomery Township have joined schools around the country in firing off a missive to Newsweek, telling the magazine to stop ranking on their schools.
Not only are the schools refusing to provide info the magazine needs to compile its America's Top Public High Schools, they are also asking not to be included in the rankings at all. The primary gripe is that the ranking system is inherently flawed because they use a single criterion -- the number of students taking AP or IB tests.
More here about the letter and other schools joining in from the folks at U.S. News & World Report, who seem happy to gloat a little about their Best High Schools ranking not being part of the boycott.
I think a Jonathan Alter column is in order. Meanwhile, the guy who developed the ranking system talks back here.
Wah, wah, wah - cry about it. How many of the undersigned have schools in the top rankings of the survey? Yep, thought so.
Evey study is based on a certain criteria - this one compiles a list based on the AP stuff. Instead of dropping out of the rankings, parents and administrators and all those aids we pay for should be whipping those kid's butts in AP-shape! Ater all, we need to keep up with the Joneses.