Top feeders
September 11, 2007 at 4:23 pm by Helen Herbst in NewsA pep rally is in order.
Turns out my alma mater, Lassiter High School, the gem of east Cobb, is this year’s top feeder school to UGA. Go Trojans!
That a school of wealthy, largely white students sees fit to open its doors for even more wealthy white students is a point of pride at Lassiter.
From the AJC:
“That means we’re doing our jobs,” Lassiter Principal Chris Shaw said.
“Most of our students are born and raised here, and we do everything we can to prepare them.”
I don’t know this Chris Shaw guy (a fellow named Jimmy Carter was principal when I walked the hallowed halls), but I can vouch that these recent graduates will be fully prepared for the Athens scene — ready to attend as many football games or listen to as much Of Montreal as the curriculum requires.
I don’t mean to imply UGA does not have a lot of smart students; they do. Their admissions standards are pretty tough, so it stands to reason that their incoming freshmen not only know their asses from their elbows, but can also write a convincing five-paragraph essay comparing and contrasting the two.
The only person whose intelligence I’m questioning is the guy who decided that one school’s supposed value is best determined by another’s reputation.
For UGA freshmen such as Lassiter grad Phillip Mote, whose 4.7 GPA and high SAT scores meant he would be accepted at almost any school, seeing his high school consistently on the feeder list helped his decision.
“It made a big difference,” Mote said. “People from Lassiter left a positive legacy. When you want to get involved in organizations, people know what to expect.”
There you have it.
UGA is good because it’s populated with Lassiter students, and Lassiter is good because its students will inevitably go to UGA. Doubtless there will be more generations of these kids with stupidly high grade point averages, packing up their Marietta things into their Range Rovers and moving their lives to Athens.
Incidentally, Lassiter also once topped the list of feeder schools to Kennesaw State, the best school in the history of the world,* but this, it seems, is not newsworthy. But if Lassiter’s happy with its apparently prestigious ranking, I’m happy for the school.
And Pope High School only tied for eighth place, so they can suck it.
(*The blogger’s opinion. Go Owls.)
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September 11th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Go Blue Devils. Bring it on, Helen!
September 11th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
The most famous Lassiter graduate is LITA — real name Amy Dumas, who graduated from Lassiter and DID NOT got to UGA but became the world champion female wrestler instead and made so much money that she is now retired and living in Decatur.
All the rich honkie brats who go to UGA from Lassiter will become republican stockbrokers who get drunk every weekend and beat their wives in private while they praise Jesus and think Sonny Perdue is smart and Mark Richt is a good football coach. Morons. Honkies. They’re doomed. Peak oil and the housing and stock market crashes witl crush them like bugs.
September 11th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
The valedictorian of my class had a stupid high GPA, too (or at least I’m reasonably sure…)
What I remember best about LHS was the ungodly rampand grade inflation…
September 11th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
rampant*
September 12th, 2007 at 7:54 am
I was an East Cobb brat who graduated from Lassiter with a less than stellar GPA despite having been a ‘gifted’ student since elementary school. People told me I was bored with class because it was too slow for me - but the truth is that I was slacking off because I only wanted to be a professional musician and I hated living in the suburbs.
With my scores, Kennesay State was the only school I could get into. It took me 10 years to gradutate with a BA because I was constantly distracting myself with playing in bands, but I’m glad I kept with it. Turns out that getting to be a music pro is a one in a million chance, and working a M-F office job actually provides me with health insurance. Thank you KSU and Lassiter! I love my bland office-monkey life and dental insurance!
Problem is, I still hate the suburbs and refuse to go live in a wasteland like East Cobb again, even for the benefit of my own son who will be starting school in a few years. I fear he won’t have the same chance I did to grow up in the land of sprawling subdivisions and shopping malls and become a second-generation office monkey like his daddy.
September 12th, 2007 at 8:53 am
I guess I’m one of those Lassiter grads (’94) who went to UGA (’98)because I was white and middle class.
I still live in Cobb County, I am married, I do have children and I drive an SUV.
To Skippy: I’m not rich, I’m not Republican, I’m not a drunk and I don’t beat my wife.
Strange how statistics can be misleading like that. By all accounts I should be a real douche.
September 12th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Miss Herbst,
Just because an argument is circular and question begging doesn’t make it invalid.
Oh wait, you’re right. It does.
Must be my (not as good as Lassiter or UGA) public education.
All Republicans go to Lassiter and UGA and beat their wives.
love,
David