GOOD LOOK: Rethinking High School

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Uploaded by on Apr 13, 2010

Less than 10 years ago, Locke High School in Los Angeles was a "dropout factory," run by gangs. Then Green Dot Public Schools took over and reopened Locke as a campus of small charter schools with high expectations. Now, Locke's graduation rate is double the average for the Los Angeles Unified School District, and a cohort of young Angelenos can look forward to a future of greater opportunity.

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  • Schools in the US... *Shivers*

  • @overtrist

    That school is in Inglewood, CA. Im pretty sure they have met all of those kinds of trouble teens and have helped them in a positive way so that even if they dont make dont make the best grades or go to college.

    Whatever reality they live in, they at least have some tools to getting one step closer to getting out of that situation. They know their lives arent going to be fixed. But they are giving them tools to live a better life. Of course not everyone will be saved.

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  • damn how i miss this school!!!

  • i miss high school

    CLASS OF 2009! MODESTO HIGH BABY!

  • hopefully i get into a good high school.. this is suckish i did great in elementary just to find out that h.s doesn't even look at those grades. wth!! i'm getting like B'S c's a rare D, and i'm not stupid, but i think my teachers are.

  • i really like locke how it is now, they only thing is that i wish is that the students could choose and take the electives at other locke campuses. that would be really fun.

  • Ms, MEDINA!!! the best math teacher i had at locke high school! 07 baby!

  • close all public schools.. its wrong to rob people to fund the education of someone else's kid

  • Soooo where did they send all the black kiddos that use to attend Locke High? Twin Towers? I see some sprinkles here and there but damn things have really changed.

  • Read: Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto Youtube and/or Google Charlotte Iserbyt

  • They didn't bother to keep up the pretense back then.

  • @JoePaparazziTV o then u know wassup with south los huh

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