406 E Noble St
Louisburg, NC 27549

nice school to be in for kids to learn

While I interviewed for a job in Franklin County, I visited 6 schools. I am picky as to which one I will accept employment at as a teacher. I was very impressed immediately with this school and the "family" environment I walked into. In total, I was offered 3 positions from 3 different schools, so I thoroughly checked out all possiblilities. Both the principal and all of the staff at this school was speaken very highly of by all other school's administrators even those competing to hire me! It is true that NO child left behind, can hinder so-called "performance" ratings at the schools; but "growth" comes in many ways and nothing is apples to apples in such an environment when making comparisons. I can honestly say that "AYP" did not impact my choice of school for employment. I based it on much more than just that.

The "parents" who wrote the good reviews here are positively clueless, because this must be truly one of the worst high schools in the country. The principal has absolutely no history or professional training in educational administration (good luck finding any C.V. on any of the administrators or teachers on the school's website)--and she constantly twitters Bible quotes (being a Christian hardly qualifies one to be a high school principal); the students have no textbooks (in English classes, the teacher reads aloud parts of books; the students are not required to read any books themselves--I wish I were kidding, but I am not); they learn NOTHING about American history, other than about local personages such as Robert E. Lee (I challenge anyone to quiz a history class at this school on even the most fundamental knowledge of either WWI or WWII: the answers you get will be guesses, or "we were fighting the British"); there are no handouts because the school says they can't afford the paper; the teachers--with few exceptions--are sub-par, offering the students haphazard or no intellectual challenge whatsoever. The school boasts a relatively high graduation rate, but it means nothing: many of the students they "graduate" are semi-literate, at best. In fact, it is the norm at the school just to push students through, regardless of their capacities. The entire institution needs an overall; North Carolina's children certainly deserve better than this.