Did any of you attend a school that looked this much like a prison?
School population: 5% "other"...
Is this "affirmative action" brought to maturity?
Posted on 05/10/2008 4:46:19 AM PDT by Haddit
A fight between rival groups of black and Latino students at Locke High School quickly escalated into a campus-wide melee Friday, with as many as 600 students brawling until police restored calm with billy clubs.
The troubled campus in South Los Angeles was locked down after the fight broke out at 12:55 p.m., as students returned from lunch to their fifth-period classes. Overwhelmed school officials called Los Angeles police for help, but students and faculty said it took about half an hour before dozens of officers, many in riot gear, restored order.
"The kids were crazy, running from place to place, jumping on other kids," said Reggie Smith, the school's band director, who said he ran to pull his students from the melee. "Some of my kids were crying because they were walking to class with friends and they got jumped."
Los Angeles Unified School District police said that there are only two officers assigned to Locke but that the school police force brought in about 60 officers after receiving word of the brawl. The Los Angeles Police Department also dispatched more than a dozen patrol cars and about 50 officers.snip
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Speaking a language does not create a race.
But if a recession is defined as "feeling bad about the economy" I guess speaking spanish defines a race.
Close enough for gummint work.
“It is always possible.It is a matter of priorities.”
I pay $9000 a year in property taxes on a $360,000 house in Corpus Christi. I am pretty ticked about it. I refuse to pay that money and get nothing in return for it. Our kids go to public school and we take an active part in it. I went to public school and I graduated from Annapolis with merit. The public schools will not get better if smart people like us let the teachers get away with making the system a jobs program.
My money is on the Mexicans! If things go against them, they can call in the Mexican Army. I doubt the Feds would even respond when their Army comes in.
I don't know where you're living now but if you think your state is immune you're kidding yourself.
This is an epidemic and it's spreading throughout the country!
"Improvise, adapt, overcome!"
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Did any of you attend a school that looked this much like a prison?
School population: 5% "other"...
Is this "affirmative action" brought to maturity?
This is a perfect example that “our diversity is our strength” is a lie, and a dangerous one at that. For many decades, this nation knew otherwise, if a nation can “know” anything. There are so few things that bind us to each other anymore.
Quick! find a way to blame Whitey!
Yeah they got rid of the racists and trouble makers years ago. It's now a paradise.
With no evil whites there, why isn't it a wonderful paradise where everyone holds hands, respects each other, and is friends?
They would instantly drop that North vs. South Mexican gang mentality the moment an opportunity arose to attack blacks.
If prison culture is any indicator, Hispanics are much more organized in group violence than blacks.
Whites more than anyone as a rule but on the outside whites are neutered....or is it “spayed”?
you beat me by 4 minutes..lol
One way around this is “escorted classes”, in which entire classrooms of students are given the same classes for that year, then class times are staggered at 5 minute intervals.
Students arrive at a lockdown campus, and each group assembles at a different entrance, where a teacher is waiting. The students have a 10 minute window in which to assemble. Then the teacher escorts them to their first class.
It sounds very complicated, but it is less so if teachers are given timed pagers.
As an example, from 7:20am to 7:30am, four groups of students assemble at four entrances. Any students not of that group are not permitted on school grounds. At 7:30, each of the four groups are taken to the class taught by that teacher, for an hour. Then the 7:30am-7:40am four groups start to assemble at the entrances.
One hour later, the 7:20-7:30 classes are escorted by their 1st period classes to their 2nd period class, where their new teacher is waiting. The 1st period teachers then return to their classroom, to await the arrival of their next class.
It seems terribly complicated, but in practice it can be done efficiently. And while it is much like prison, in the long run, it can help keep students out of prison.
I can’t imagine sending my child into this everyday.
Summary
Alain Leroy Locke Senior High Email
Public - Grades: 9-12
District: Los Angeles Unified
325 East 111th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90061-3003 (map)
(323) 757-9381
Schooldigger California State Ranking:
1139th (of 1416 public high schools)
Type: Regular school
Status: Operational
Locale: Large city
Total Students(2005 - 2006*): 3122
Fulltime teachers: 133.0
Student/Teacher Ratio: 23.5
Eligible for discounted/free lunch: 2489 ( 80 %) Am. Indian/Alaska Native: 2 ( 0 %)
Asian/Pacific Islander: 6 ( 0 %)
Hispanic: 2005 ( 64 %)
African American: 1107 ( 35 %)
White: 2 ( 0 %)
Unspecified: 0 ( 0 %)
* This is the most current data available from the U.S. Dept of Education
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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Reading some Locke at Locke high school might also be useful.
The public schools will not get better unless there is substantial competition to them. The smart kids having alternative arrangements in sufficient numbers becomes competition. Then the public schools will improve. In the meantime it is unconscionable for intelligent parents to inflict public school on their children and on themselves. In public school you get little or no actual history. the math is questionable and depends on educational fad. English is simply not taught though a lot of social programming goes under the title.Your child may be very bright and get a lot on his own but much of that is in spite of the system and he would get so much more in an actually educational environment. He is being cheated in public school.
Based on that, I’d expect hispanics to totally come out on top in places like Cali, but what about the SE, where hispanics will be the “second minority” for a few more decades? I’d call that an unstable formula.
yep...hard to figure the outcome in seriously black places
plus...what will whites do?
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