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On the eve of the my 50th Reunion ... LAHS can't obtain an API score of 800 out of 1000 when the range "starts" at 200 and now they "hope" to obtain a 600 "or better"?
They should have closed the school after the earthquake.
Anyone want to venture a guess as to what organization "wasn't" around 50 years ago?
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LAHS CHARTER SCHOOL or .... CLOSURE?
What's happened in the last 50 years?
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Don Merrigan 
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Posted 11 June 2010 - 03:41 PM
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Posted 13 June 2010 - 10:24 AM
Much of this revolves around the revolving principals at Rome, over the last few years, and apparent
lack of leadership. Can't blame the kids. Kids will learn with effective leadership.
lack of leadership. Can't blame the kids. Kids will learn with effective leadership.
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Posted 15 June 2010 - 11:14 PM
[quote name='Robert H. Irvin' date='13 June 2010 - 09:24 AM' timestamp='1276449878' post='89']
Much of this revolves around the revolving principals at Rome, over the last few years, and apparent
lack of leadership. Can't blame the kids. Kids will learn with effective leadership.
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It is easy to blame the "leadership", but at what level of leadership does one point the finger? Are we talking about the Principal, who is driven first by the the directive to maintain high homeroom attendance (strictly for ADA funding) and secondly to maintain a reasonable level of competence by the students taking biased standardize testing? Or the leadership of the Area Administrators, with the job of meeting funding goals (via ADA, Title I, etc)? Front office, as in the Superintendents, etc, whom are political creatures, appointed by people who are not educators, but housewives, political hopefuls using the Board as a springboard, or others that are not qualified to drive the second largest school district in the United States?
If anyone asked my opinion, I would point towards the option of privatizing LAHS in the form of bringing in Green Dot, Inc. The problem with moving to a charter school designation is that despite the Mission Statement, curriculum plans, and the staff, such a school is still under the direction of LAUSD, and as such is subject to the failing of LAUSD. Of course, this is just my opinion, and I am sure by the number of replies to this topic, that my opinion is not really a concern of any Alum.
Much of this revolves around the revolving principals at Rome, over the last few years, and apparent
lack of leadership. Can't blame the kids. Kids will learn with effective leadership.
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It is easy to blame the "leadership", but at what level of leadership does one point the finger? Are we talking about the Principal, who is driven first by the the directive to maintain high homeroom attendance (strictly for ADA funding) and secondly to maintain a reasonable level of competence by the students taking biased standardize testing? Or the leadership of the Area Administrators, with the job of meeting funding goals (via ADA, Title I, etc)? Front office, as in the Superintendents, etc, whom are political creatures, appointed by people who are not educators, but housewives, political hopefuls using the Board as a springboard, or others that are not qualified to drive the second largest school district in the United States?
If anyone asked my opinion, I would point towards the option of privatizing LAHS in the form of bringing in Green Dot, Inc. The problem with moving to a charter school designation is that despite the Mission Statement, curriculum plans, and the staff, such a school is still under the direction of LAUSD, and as such is subject to the failing of LAUSD. Of course, this is just my opinion, and I am sure by the number of replies to this topic, that my opinion is not really a concern of any Alum.
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Posted 21 June 2010 - 12:24 PM
I don't really know much about education policy anywhere, much less in LA (I left town shortly after graduation). That said, maybe the problem is requiring kids to go to school who don't want to. I know there aren't many good options, or many options period, but that's no reason to turn HS into just another bad option. Now, I talked a lot of trash in 1965-8 about how pointless it was to go to school and how little relevance there was in anything I was supposedly learning, but the truth is I probably wouldn't have dropped out if I had the choice. After all, I didn't drop out when I did have the choice. But there were then and there are probably even more now students who really didn't want to be there.
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