Posted on 11/25/2015 2:45:39 PM PST by SaveFerris
This school is unusual. A comprehensive high school was broken up into three separate academies that share the campus, athletic program, and library. There is a Gates Foundation tie-in that explains some of the experimental character. The website makes it hard to find current demographics and SES info. I tracked links to an outside scorecard. The 2010 figures are given separately for the three constituent schools. The demographics differ slightly from one to the next but the largest group in all three is hispanic, followed by Asians. Blacks and whites clock in at 10-15 percent each. Test scores are not great but are not terrible either, especially for an urban public school. There is a high rate of free and reduced price lunches. Looks like an interesting school. My guess is that it has a challenging gap between the white and Asian students, who comprise 40 percent plus of the students, and everyone else. But that is just a guess. I will defer to anyone who knows the area.
Oh, those playful Amish.
True. If it’s serious enough. I’ve had several in my life.
One caused my vision to dim.
Now you know what my problem is. LOL
Sorry to have misled you inadvertently.
As our great media reports hardly any relevant facts on these matters, they ought to be looking for girls named with names ending in ‘aquonda”, “queisha”, or two white girls both named Heather.
My kids went to that crappy school district. I fought them tooth and nail for all the deviency they were trying to force down the kid's throats 50 years ago, and they're only gotten far worse since.
I’m kind of dopy and slower than normal onthe uptake today.
No reflection on you. :)
Think I’m coming down with something.
Terribly sleepy every time I eat.
Doc wants to check my bloodcount and sugars.
Maybe I’d better hustle down there.
Haven’t been the same since my flu shot-maybe my stupid thyroid is going haywire again. I have hypothyroidism and my thyroid had an identity crisis last year at this time and went hyper for a bit. Sometimes that gets hard to keep up with.
What’s a comprehensive high school?
Is that a purty name for a continuation high school?
I remember that particular episode!
Did you know Al once scored 4 touchdowns in one game?
It is beyond shameful how they hide the details.
If I had a dime for every time I goofed up here, I’d be a rich man.
No problem at all. Hope you feel better.
Sorry to hear you are feeling a bit under the weather.
Take care. We need you...
D1
I know.
What
When
Where
Who
How
We get parts of what. We don’t get much of the rest.
Thanks.
I don’t really add much to the discussion, but I am behind the cause.
:)
Hey, I see you around. Don’t say that.
= :-)
Yep, Kelly could be a bad a$$ when she wanted to be.
“Comprehensive” high school was the term they used on their own website. I presume it means a big one-size-fits-all school of the type that has become the norm in U.S. secondary schooling. In this case, they chose to break up the larger school into three smaller, specialized schools on the same campus, each with a different area of focus. It strikes me as an elaborate way to sneak formal tracking back into the system without using a taboo word.
I had to look up formal tracking.
In a nutshell, it was separating the student body based on acedemic standing or area of study(honors, steam, hospitality, etc)
They do something like that at my kids’ school.
I never had a problem with it though. They kept their grades up and stayed out of GP(general population where the people who don’t care, or the troublemakers are)
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