I distinctly remember going on a school trip from Girls¹ High to see the new University City High School. I also remember how hard the community fought to have this nice, new school with pool and TV studio in their neighborhood.
I quite remember being shocked to my foundation when I went to do a teaching stint there in 1982 at how the place had deteriorated in just the ten years or so years since I first visited there as student. There were students there then who would smear feces in the classroom, wires hanging from the ceiling, pool closed; never found out what happened to the TV Studio. No, I do not think a new building would be he answer until the students there respect it enough to not destroy it. I was at UC fifteen years ago and I think things in the district have gotten worse since. On 3/12/07 4:12 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a message dated 3/12/2007 4:06:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> It's been that way for a LONG time. Not just at West Philadelphia High >> either but all over the district. >> >> At least you don't have to go inside and spend your day in that sort of >> environment, be trained and re-trained and re-trained in the name of "School >> Reform." >> >> OR >> >> Be held accountable if they don't do well on standardized tests; have to >> present your credentials to proven "highly qualified" to be in there and try >> to teach them. >> >> OR >> >> See no consequences for the students or their parents; just you and/or your >> administrator. >> >> This is how people are treated who WANT to be there and want to teach. >> >> We shall see how the public reacts when contract negotiations start soon; as >> the district tries to pare down even more of our rights and heap more >> responsibility on us. > Does anybody think that all the time spent on the "forum" to pretend Community > Input drove the plans to build a new facility for West Philadelphia High has > had any positive impact? > > Does anybody think that a new building will solve any or all of the problems? > (I don't, and can point to what's happened at the new campus-like Atlantic > City High School to back up this belief. It's as bad there as it was in the > old high school building. > > > > Always at your service and ready for a dialog ® brand resident and housing > provider, > Al Krigman > > > > > AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from > AOL at AOL.com <http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000339> . >
