Opinions on Edina High school

[MN-Born-n-Raised]

Originally Posted by 57special

I speak as a "move in" to Edina about 10 years ago. I came from a place where the school system was so mediocre that we had to put our kids in a private school system. I have noticed that the face of the school system has changed since we first moved. There are far more Asian faces than there used to be. We notice these things as we are a mixed race family. I can't say that there are any more AA families than there used to be. Definitely a lot more Somalians. In general, we have had a positive experience. BTW, we looked at Minnehaha too for my eldest (pre-explosion), who is quite the athlete. Determined that it was too much $$, and too much driving...also had some qualms about the influence religion had on the teaching there. On to your questions;

- it's all there for college prep- if your son wants is prepared to put the work in. He ended up with 13 AP courses....a brilliant friend of his had 25! He was admitted to Harvard, of course. If he wants to be a slacker, he can find that too, of course. I would just say that there is quite a crowd of high achieving students at EHS though.

- Diversity...as I said before, Edina is getting more diverse. Maybe I am influenced a bit because my son is of mixed race, and many of his friends were of many races. Best to tour the school when it is in session and see what you can see. I do know that very bright AA friend of his went to Berkeley for CS...

- Don't know what to tell you about HW. That's up to your son. Both of mine are quite studious, and like attracts like. A lot depends on what academic track your son is on. Is he taking advanced math? AP courses? Honors?

- Basketball has been quite good the past few years. Two years ago they beat both of the teams that were in the State finals during the season. My son ran into Trey Jones at his University when Duke was playing an exhibition there. They had a laugh about the Apple Valley/Edina games. Hockey is the big dog, of course, but tennis is good, as is swimming, skiing. Baseball is decent, too. The problem is that the Lake conference is a buzzsaw, with EP(football..Ugh), Tonka(everything), Wayazata(everything), Hopkins(basketball), Edina (hockey).

- there also all sorts of clubs like Debate, Robotics, Model UN, Math club, etc., etc., etc..

- My eldest was(and is) a Varsity athlete, quite social, and found it quite a challenge to keep his marks up, but got it done because he surrounded himself with like minded friends. I would say that he "stuck out" because he was also a Varsity athlete(now a college athlete), a high academic achiever, and of mixed race. He had very few problems having to do with race...maybe a few times when he was playing against other towns from opponents... my youngest complained a bit the other day because he keeps getting "borrowed" as a "Biracial" for other's projects on "diversity". It's pretty PC, here, but that's better than intolerance, I guess.

Hope this helps. I have lived in many places in the world, so I don't get the resentment that some local people seem to have against Edina. I have found the people to be quite friendly and easy to get along with, for the most part.

The reason: (all too often) jealousy.

[Tyryztoll]

Originally Posted by MN-Born-n-Raised

The reason: (all too often) jealousy.

Another reason: (all too often) too white. I call it "white fright".

Can't have that anymore - gotta have "diversity"!

Reverse racism at its finest.