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SoCalDem

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11. Unless you are poor & in Watts, it's unlikely to be a choice

Reply to liberal_at_heart (Reply #8)

Thu Sep 12, 2013, 12:43 PM

Sep 2013

This is ONE school in ONE place, but their formula seems to be a bright spot on a very blighted map.

They seem to have figured out a way to motivate kids, and a part of it may be to instill a zeal for learning as a way OUT of a bad situation.

Many kids are stuck in a bad place no matter where they live, and school is no longer a safe/fun place for many kids.

Schools are getting larger, more impersonal and so many students get lost in the shuffle

The rich kids, the cheerleaders & jocks will always breeze through school, having fun as they go, but most kids struggle and too many zone out...

The outside world they all go to when 12th grade ends, is not a very accommodating place.

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College Acceptance for this school is 100% [View all] SoCalDem Sep 2013 OP

When you can select your students, it makes all the difference. Brickbat Sep 2013 #1

They chose poor kids in gang-infested communities SoCalDem Sep 2013 #2

Which is great. But they choose poor kids in gang-infested communities who are likely to succeed. Brickbat Sep 2013 #3

Yup I agree gopiscrap Sep 2013 #9

And the grades are often cooked as well. If the teachers and principals don't do what parents want, duffyduff Sep 2013 #21

They cherry pick. That is what makes them private schools. duffyduff Sep 2013 #20

And they can choose who they want from that community gollygee Sep 2013 #5

Yep. kcr Sep 2013 #22

OMG I so fully agree gopiscrap Sep 2013 #27

Yeah, right. I have a bridge to sell you. n/t duffyduff Sep 2013 #19

Don't community colleges in CA have open enrollment? KamaAina Sep 2013 #4

UCR is not a community college SoCalDem Sep 2013 #7

Two students went to UCR that we know of KamaAina Sep 2013 #10

The Jesuits have very quietly set up a group of these high schools hedgehog Sep 2013 #6

my son struggles in school but there is no way I would enroll him in a school like that. liberal_at_heart Sep 2013 #8

Unless you are poor & in Watts, it's unlikely to be a choice SoCalDem Sep 2013 #11

$15,000 tuition Nine Sep 2013 #12

This is great. Now, let's make our public schools the best in the world! Scuba Sep 2013 #13

DING! DING! DING! We have a winner!!!! gopiscrap Sep 2013 #28

So... what happens to the C students at the local high school? bobclark86 Sep 2013 #14

Should those C students drag Ricardo and Roberto down with them? Recursion Sep 2013 #15

Yeah, those horrible C students... who do they think they are bothering with an education... bobclark86 Sep 2013 #16

Good for them. kcr Sep 2013 #17

A dear friend once loved this phrase SoCalDem Sep 2013 #23

LIke I said kcr Sep 2013 #24

Copied the headline of an article.. did not write the headline SoCalDem Sep 2013 #25

Oh, I see. kcr Sep 2013 #26

Yup I agree with you!!! gopiscrap Sep 2013 #29

Big deal. It's a private school. They cherry pick who attends it. duffyduff Sep 2013 #18

Yup when my wife worked in a private school the admin treated her like shit gopiscrap Sep 2013 #30