I thought the same thing in regards to the credential issue when I spoke to a neighbor who transferred out a few years back. They absoultely hated the school.

I have oft wondered How a school located in the Laurel, my neighborhood, have such a high percentage of Asian students? I believe they are over 80% of the campus population.

This school is sneaky in my opinion. My neighbor said that they attempted to go to a board meeting yet the parents never knew when and where they were held. They later found out the only hold one meeting a year.

Is this legal? The school has lost a lot of love over the past years from my view. I used to be a supporter , but am disgusted by what I have read and heard.

Of course blogs are a space where anyone can be anyone and anything can be said, yet first hand stories are abound of this school. Too bad. Test scores will only carry you so far John Glover.

I have 4-5 students who transferred from American Indian. They are all very good students, and when I asked why they transferred, they said things like: “It used to be all about academics, but now it is all about discipline.” They also told me that in 9th and 10th grade, they had the same teacher for multiple subjects, so I wonder how 1 teacher can be credentialed in all of those things. Finally, they said that they were told that they were enrolled in AP classes, but their trancripts say otherwise. I checked the College Board website, and indeed it lists only 3 approved AP classes at American Indian.

Perhaps this is all something for an investigative journalist to look into.

If benefits accrue to those schools with the best test-takers, we can expect to see all the same kind of enrollment and recruitment shenanigans we see undertaken to secure high school quarterbacks and point guards, except on a mass scale.

If the entire society is going to look at my school through the lens of API, why the hell shouldn’t we DHP the hell out of lousy and truant students?

Oh, yeah, because we have morals, and we care about the struggling individuals. But why should the system be antagonistic to good morals?

As for John Glover, screw you: I have talked to former students of your school who are EXCELLENT students yet because they didn’t fit in to your scheme were HIT and MOCKED relentlessly by ADULTS, put in detention and isolated for WEEKS on end. And no, I’m not talking about “thugs,” these are SpEd kids. You don’t have to expel them, you just make their life a living hell until they beg their parents to leave.

We take all comers at American Indian, and we set high expectations for everyone. Did you know that over 90% of Oakland’s passing AP Calculus AB scores for black and Latino students came from AIPHS? To accomplish this, we must be serving a diverse student body (and serving them well).

Alice (and anyone else curious about our schools), you’re more than welcome to come see what we’re up too over here – stop by anytime. You will see kids working at a wide range of levels. You’ll also come to understand that I consider it a personal failure whenever a student leaves our school by any means other than graduation. Never have we expelled a student at American Indian.