"If you have an AA, no one is worried about what type of H.S. diploma you have."
***Actually, I found that employers stopped asking about high school well before I got an AA degree. As soon as I had a few college classes under my belt, high school had become completely irrelevant. Just by saying you attend a certain college, their assumption is you have a high school diploma.
And there is no stigma attached whatsoever. I actually bring it up as a point of pride that I never graduated from my ridiculous high school but I have a college degree.
My high school was among the worst in the nation at the time, even though it was in a "good" neighborhood, because there were forced busing policies from the areas that had high concentrations of minorities (and they closed down the schools in the minority districts). It was a mess caused by well-meaning liberal administrators. Basically the school had the same problems as inner city schools without the teachers nor administrators having the slightest idea of how to deal with it.
A woman who taught in my school wrote a book about her experience, titled "My Posse Don't Do Homework". It became a hit movie: "Dangerous Minds" with Michelle Pfeiffer.
Oh My,You are from my neck of the woods then.I went to Mills High a bit north of your way,Class of 65'.Back then it was a pretty rough place,lots of working class Irish and Italian working class kids.We had a few nasty riots there back in the day.When my brother went there a few years later it was hippie high,lots of dope.
Now it is plurality Asian and very highly ranked as the home of quite a few National Merit scholars.
A woman who taught in my school wrote a book about her experience, titled "My Posse Don't Do Homework". It became a hit movie: "Dangerous Minds" with Michelle Pfeiffer.
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That sounds like a curse - "may you end up in a school that is fodder for a Hollywood movie".
Hollywood would never make a movie about the modest Christian private school that ably teaches our children (in 2nd and 4th grade now) the basics in reading, writing, math, etc., Bible, in a good environment. The only thing Hollywood would find interesting is that there are children from many ethnic backgounds; ah, but almost all are from Christian homes.
My high school was among the worst in the nation at the time, even though it was in a “good” neighborhood, because there were forced busing policies from the areas that had high concentrations of minorities (and they closed down the schools in the minority districts). It was a mess caused by well-meaning liberal administrators. Basically the school had the same problems as inner city schools without the teachers nor administrators having the slightest idea of how to deal with it.
A woman who taught in my school wrote a book about her experience, titled “My Posse Don’t Do Homework”. It became a hit movie: “Dangerous Minds” with Michelle Pfeiffer.
***I recently ran across the Wikipedia entry for this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlmont_High_School#Dangerous_Minds
[edit] Dangerous Minds
The novel My_Posse_Don’t_Do_Homework (ctrl-click)”>[[My Posse Don’t Do Homework]] by LouAnne Johnson and subsequent movie Dangerous Minds were loosely based upon her experience as a teacher at Carlmont in the 1990s.[3] Most of her students were African-Americans and Hispanics bused in to Carlmont from East Palo Alto, a then-unincorporated town at the opposite end of the school district from Carlmont. With the closure of Ravenswood High School in East Palo Alto in the early 1970s, much of its predominantly African-American and Hispanic student body was bused to other high schools in the Sequoia High School District, including Carlmont, which had an equally predominantly Caucasian population at the time. A subsequent ‘Open Enrollment’ policy in the school district permitted East Palo Alto students to attend high schools closer to home, space permitting.