One wuestion – have you compared your experiences with Skyline High to similar students going to Piedmont High, and High Schools in Contra Costa County? And have you discussed with your parents your experiences and whatever else you have learned about other schools in the Bay Area? have your parents discussed your experience with Skyline compared to their own at whatever high school they went to?

- Last year at the begining of the school year, me and some other sophmores were put into an AP Chemistry class. Sophmores are not allowed to take Ap chem. SO why was I put there if they knew that? I put in numerous class change request and ended up sitting in the back of Ms. Mchughs 6th period Ap Chem. class for 5 weeks.
Thanks to Mr. Miller, (who is not even a counselor by the way) I was put into a regular Chemisty class.

-At the begining of the year my schedule also had about
3 teachers with the name vacancy. That could not just be a strange coincidence.

- I also got put into Ms. Thompsons over occupied English class. It was so full that people we sitting on counters and the floor. She was also one of the most incompetent teachers I’ve ever had to deal with. I learned how to capitalize in 1st grade. No offense or anything. Just the truth. Then I got switched into Mr. Konigsbergs English class. He was worse than Ms. Thompson. I got to waste a WHOLE ENTIRE year just sitting and talking and eating. People walked out of his class 15 minutes early. The whole class would have a community test taking and tell one person to do one part of the test and then they will switch.
He also liked to give the answers to the test sometimes. When students would complain to the counselors and staff. NOTHING was done to help the situation.

-I also got a Geometry teacher that left for a month and then made us take a final. I didn’t recognize anything on the final, and yes I failed it.
The class was filled with freshman and had two or three sophmores in it. We had to take CAHSEE last year and we didn’t recieve ANY preperation for it at all. I personaly struggle at math in general and I get to take the math portion of CAHSEE again next year.
Fortunately I passed the English portion with a perfect score. No thanks to Mr. Konigsberg of course.

-The people I would actually like to thank for being helpful is Mr. Miller, the (counselor?), and my AP World History teacher, Ms. Morici.

I thought this might help you guys narrow down on the really important problems so you could have a more clear vision on what you want to happen at Skyline High School. Any school for that matter.
Students come first. No matter what race or gender. If you look at the student body as seperated people it makes it harder to accomodate for everyone.

But that’s just a student speaking.

The economy that is unfolding is sweeping away underperforming blacks (and anybody that acts the same). In your failure factory black “graduates” are having trouble getting an honest job that supports a family – or didn’t you notice. And around half of the black students in Urban America that start 1st grade are gone before 12th and don’t even “graduate”. And it’s no secret why. Your failure factory school has failed them. Most of them could have been saved from what is happening had they been properly schooled instead of spoiled.

And you say it’s “racism” to call out the emperor has no clothes. It falls on my deaf ears. I’m black – and my white co-workers sure don’t give a damn. Your Hispanic neighbors don’t seem to be crying “racism” as they take control of the labor unions and the civil service machines – not to mention the service jobs in California.

Back to the thread – I want principals in place like the old school principals who look at these kids and see soon-to-be employees fitting into the economy of the bay area (and sees the MINORITY of school kids that can fit into higher education). I want Principals who will do that it takes to force these square kids to fit into the round holes of the workforce.

That doesn’t mean making the students or their families happy or comfortable. That’s nice if that happens but it’s purely optional.

And getting rid of loser liberal instructors and replacing them with teachers that fit into the program on not being a failure factory goes with the territory.

And one of the cardinal issues with “liberal” is teaching and whining to the students that they are victims and that those who don’t cater to them are racists. Or that “racism” has anything to do with the failure of the student to rise economically. Racism doesn’t work that way. Except for loser liberals.

Just good ol’ plain talking racism, that’s all it is.

John’s comments may sound flip to you. It would. You preside over failure factories. People like me often use gallows humor in dealing with crash landings with the clients we deal with.

In point of fact the OUSD principals could use a working knowledge of the California Penal Code. They are grooming students, especially the black students, for prison. To this I might add that a working knowledge of communicable diseases wouldn’t hurt either for the same reasons.

If only things were different.