Just getting along...
Gee, I wonder what the problem is. Heck, give `em amnesty. That'll fix it.
People with sense. People with intelligence. People who value civilization. People who value liberty. GET YOUR KIDS OUT OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS!!!
LOCKE DOWN!
We need to apply some innovative liberal solutions to this problem. But it might take some money.
1. Midnight basketball
2. Make condoms available on request
3. reduce classroom size
4. retrain teachers
5. team sensitivity teaching
6. more diversity training
7. expand school lunch subsidies
Brawling really is a distraction from studying for the AP exams....
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.
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!
With no evil whites there, why isn't it a wonderful paradise where everyone holds hands, respects each other, and is friends?
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.