For those who talk about their premier schools in Wake County, they need to talk to my sister and brother-in-law about what happened when they moved their rising fifth grader from Brassfield to a school out of state in one of the best performing school districts in the country based on test scores.

Brassfield is one of the highest ranked elementary schools in Wake County.

Their daughter has been struggling all year to keep up, yet she made straight A's for K-4 at Brassfield in Wake County.

Wake County may be good but students from Wake County have a hard time adjusting to better schools in better performing counties.

Guess what, that county has 240,000 population with 24 elementary schools and has no magnet schools or socio-economic diversity (race) based busing.

This county has neighborhood schools and the only busing is within each school's attendance area.

Doing more research, Wake County has a reputation because of it's diversity program, not it's classroom performance.

Why can't we just get some people on the school board who care about WCPSS and not their own political agendas! Get rid of the politics entirely and just do your job!

The Taxpayers group should be more concerned about the lack of long term planning with the WCPSS! The impact of the future taxes for the old GOP led board's choice plans are going to increase property taxes a lot of $$$$$

Per the Democrats on this forum, it's okay for Democrats to file a complaint with Advanced about the Republicans but it's not okay for Republicans to file a complain about Democrats for the same offenses.

Democrats are such hypocrites.

"Copying someones complaint, changing the names, and refiling it is 100% publicity stunt. The NAACP may have been misguided or wrong, but at least they were sincere" - bill0

Actually the citation of the Democratic board members behavior is extensive and detailed - so it is more then a copy-n-paste job.

I believe that both complaints (NAACP and Wake County Taxpayers Association) are equally absurd. I also believe that Rev Barber and the NAACP coming to Raleigh to complain about a neighborhood assignment proposal in Wake when the county he lives in uses neighborhood based assignment is nothing more than a publicity and fund-raising stunt for the NAACP, there is nothing sincere about it.

Wah, wah, wah....same old story. Enough already.

Surely this story is a joke, worthy of the Onion? The Wake County Taxpayers Association is non-partisan? A "group that has historically supported conservative candidates" is non-partisan? There is no way any group run by Russell Capps is non-partisan. He is an extremist right winger who has a long history of lunacy. I still remember his letter to the N&O proclaiming that Evolution violates the 2nd Law Of Thermodynamics. (No it doesn't. You many believe in Evolution or deny it, but it doesn't violate the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.) Come on WRAL, you need to call a spade a spade. In a January, 2011 piece, you called it "conservative". What's changed your mind to start calling it non-partisan?

WOW, some people need to check their egos at the door, roll up their sleeves and get to work FOR THE CHILDREN (not their own self-interest)! I don't think anyone should be eligible for the board that does not have children in the system.

"So I am waiting for you to state that the complaint filed by the NAACP about the Wake County School System with AdvancED was just as improper as the recent complaint filed by the Wake County Taxpayers Association. If you don't then my assessment is spot on."

Copying someones complaint, changing the names, and refiling it is 100% publicity stunt. The NAACP may have been misguided or wrong, but at least they were sincere.

as a wake county taxpayer I feel that this small group using a title like this is misrepresentation at best...

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