The Governor’s School, a six-week summer residential program for gifted students in North Carolina, is scheduled to begin June 15. The program already has its share of controversy, but it looks like the weird factor is back this year, too.
As recently as Monday, the Governor’s School Web site contained an anomalous link. The “GS East” link directed visitors not to the Governor School East Web site, but to the homepage of Cary Academy, an expensive private school just outside Raleigh.
Wait, it gets better. The new GS East site contains some…uncouth content. Clicking on the FAQ tab brings this up:
Q: Why is this website so lame?A: Because some months ago the host for our webpage stopped supporting our old web development software. The host didn’t tell us about this change, and so we are now forced to learn new, much more complicated software on the fly. As we learn, expect the site to improve in quality.
Directly below that is FAQ number two:
Q: Why is the food so much better at GSE than GSW?
A: No one knows. It just is.
Continuing to explore the site, one will find this under the “News” tab:
Better Buses! DPI Turns Bus Lemons into Lemonade
For many years, GSE has had to depend for transportation on the worst rejects from the one public school district willing to rent us buses. When even that old standby proved unwilling to rent the buses this summer, DPI administrators contracted with a private bus company to secure us much better buses for those trips to the museums, malls, and the American Dance Festival.
This all goes to show something. I’m not sure what.
