waiting2buylater_IHB
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Overall I feel that the newer schools have a positive effect on education. They might be able to attract "better" teachers and the new technologies allow the student to expand their capabilities. Beckman has an Olympic-sized pool so its students/swimming team have much greater access for practice. It has computers and flat screens everywhere so learning can be more efficient. Take those 2 examples and extend them to other areas such as arts, labs and you can have a positive cumulative effect on the student body. One of my kids went to Foothill for 1 year and then transferred to Beckman and I think it turned out to be a better place for her.
k.o., I went to a predominantly minority-dominated and poor high school on the East Coast but I turned out OK too. Individually we can fight ourself out of poverty or a bad environment through hard work and determination but I have a feeling that most of my high school classmates didn't do as well.
IPO, I have mentioned this before on another thread. Multi-cultural is fine and dandy but the gap between the rich and poor students is so wide at some of the Tustin schools that it can be a big problem. If I had my choice, I would have sent my kids to Northwood HS where you still have the racial diversity (admittedly mostly just between the Asian and white kids) but without the problems of rich and poor kids.
k.o., I went to a predominantly minority-dominated and poor high school on the East Coast but I turned out OK too. Individually we can fight ourself out of poverty or a bad environment through hard work and determination but I have a feeling that most of my high school classmates didn't do as well.
IPO, I have mentioned this before on another thread. Multi-cultural is fine and dandy but the gap between the rich and poor students is so wide at some of the Tustin schools that it can be a big problem. If I had my choice, I would have sent my kids to Northwood HS where you still have the racial diversity (admittedly mostly just between the Asian and white kids) but without the problems of rich and poor kids.