High School "Medals" in U.S. News Survey

The Hometown Weekly, reports that Westwood High School has been recognized as a "Silver Medal" school by U.S. News and World Report in their Best High Schools feature. The Boston area did very well; the magazine does an in-depth profile of two Gold Medal "winners:" Boston Latin and MATCH Charter and awards Silver Medals to our neighboring Norfolk county high schools in Needham, Brookline, Medfield, Millis, and Sharon. Wellesley Senior High and Dover-Sherborn Regional were also Gold Medal winners.

I think it is great the school is getting some recognition, but I'm a little tired of these U.S. News rankings. It's fun when your school, city, college, graduate school, or whatever else they dream up comes out on top or at least better than somebody you don't like...but what's the point really? The schools should be the best they can be for our community--which is less about test scores and more about relevence to preparing kids for the future.