CMS Back-to-School Pop Quiz
With classes starting Thursday for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, here’s a pop quiz to gauge how ready you are for the opening bell:
School buses will be out in full force, heavy traffic is guaranteed. To arrive at work on time, drivers should:
a) leave home a half-hour early
b) scout alternate routes in advance
c) play hooky and catch up on recorded episodes of “Rescue Me.”
If you decide to brave the traffic, remember that the shortest distance between two points is:
a) a straight line
b) a subdivision cut-through
c) the space between “Coach” Joe White’s ears
The price of a school lunch increases this year by:
a) 5 cents to $2.05
b) 50 cents to $2.05
c) you have to pay for lunch?
With the district’s new bell schedules, an expanded school day and consolidated bus stops, most students will have to wake up:
a) a half-hour earlier than last year
b) a half-hour later than last year
c) about an hour after they arrive at school
Mobile classrooms are to CMS what cows are to:
a) a farm
b) Golden Corral Steakhouse
c) Dairy Queen
Over/under for the number of kids left on buses the first day of school:
a) four
b) ten
c) CMS Communications is still scrambling for an answer
The official line from CMS will be that on the first day of school, interim superintendent Hugh Hattabaugh arrived for work at:
a) 5 a.m.
b) 4 a.m.
c) he’s been sleeping on an Ed Shed sofa since Tuesday
CMS’ student dress code prohibits:
a) spaghetti-strap dresses
b) flip-flops
c) t-shirts with a picture of Bill James
CMS reorganized its seven learning communities last year into five zones: the Central-Elementary Zone, the East Zone, the Northeast Zone, the Southwest Zone, and the ——
a) Central-Secondary Zone
b) Twilight Zone
c) End Zone
CMS has a projected enrollment of approximately:
a) 125,000 students
b) 138,000 students
c) it is way past time to deconsolidate
The Board of Education’s Theory of Action outlines:
a) a framework for continuous academic improvement
b) managed performance/empowerment
c) different ways to bamboozle $27 million from county commissioners and taxpayers
With the launch of new pre-K-8 campuses, elementary school kids will be:
a) seated in the front rows of school buses, with middle-schoolers in the back
b) packing extra lunch money
c) learning a whole new vocabulary of, um, colorful words
Before sending your children to school, you should:
a) give them a huge hug
b) provide plenty of encouragement and support
c) tell them you love them bunches
From our House to yours, best wishes for a great school year.
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