The honor code requires folks from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools to respond to this News & Observer editorial. in the concluding paragraph, N&O editors toss a fireball their way,

Pockets of excellence amid swaths of mediocrity — that seems to be what the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools have bargained for. Wake County aspires to better than that, and clearly has a strategy for attaining it.

For an overview of the issue, read this.