Welcome to our newest SAUSD thread – “High School Issues!” We have added this thread by popular demand. Our 2009 SAUSD thread already has over 400 comments. Now we are offering a series of new threads so that our readers can focus on specific issues related to the SAUSD.
In this thread we invite parents, teachers and other community stakeholders to discuss “High School Issues.”
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So how’re things going at the different high schools? Been pretty much no news after a lot in the past. I heard new Saddleback principal, Rob Laxton, though with the personality of Mr. Spock, has been a welcome reprieve from prior bosses of SHS.
more like a combo of mr spock and mr rogers. but at least he is completely ignoring the fact that 15 of his faculty are getting laid off. but hey, what price do you have to pay to get the master schedule and school in general back into shape? teachers, counselors, and benefits should do… right?
It should be possible to determine the probablitlity for each rif’d high school teacher to be called back. A reasonable enrollment projection can be made, avg. class sizes have already been pushed up to contract max – even with J.Lopez’s bizarre averaging method. It should be possible to look at posititions lost, which and how many displaced teachers have appropriate credentials to fill rif’d teachers positions, and number of classes in each subject needed next year to arrive at a probablility for a given teacher to be rehired.
“Do I take a job elsewhere, or do I wait to be rehired?” For some this will be 95% certainty the District will need them, lower for others. District is supposed to make those decisions in May, but each year over the last decade (except the last 2 years) District grossly underestimated enrollment leading to ridiculous classroom crowding in September, with sign-carrying teacher protests followed by a flurry long-term sub hirings. I would expect the same this year, except we might have our own teachers to re-hire, but how do they make the decision to chance this? Do some of us have the experience to offer some help here?
Can someone please explain to me why pregnant teens have to go to their regular high schools and not a teen parent school? I have heard there are several pregnant students at Segerstrom. Doesn’t this normalize teen pregnancy?
The problem would be money. The broad variety of classes needed at the high school level for students to graduate requires quite a large and diverse faculty. Limited budgets preclude a special high school with a relatively small enrollment.
Number 4 As a former staff member of Segerstrom I can confirm that pregnant teens do attend normal classes. Why I don’t know!
I think Saddleback has special accommodations for pregnant teens, like a parenting class. But yes, there are pregnant teens all over the place and it seems very normal in that when I see another it’s no longer shocking, more like an “oh, there’s another” type of reaction. There is small stigma associated with it, but since the majority of the community is anti-birth control, anti-abortion, and without proper sex ed, what is to be done? I actually had a hs student who asked me if a baby girl can get pregnant from a baby boy if they are in the womb together (fraternal twins) because they are sharing fluid. Looks like that abstinence-only education the board supports really works, right?
Doesn’t Valley have a segregated teen parent building far in the corner of the campus? If ADA funds are the concern, then perhaps a portion of the school should have a designated teen parent classroom(s) away from the general population.
When I was in high school, once a student started showing, she was transferred to continuation.
As of this writing, I have 2 pregnant students (one is pregnant with her SECOND child), 1 married mother and 2 fathers. A few of my colleagues have a good number of pregnant FRESHMEN. The district needs to address this issue and abandon the abstinence-only approach.
SHS: http://visionweb.occourts.org/Vision_Public/DisplayHearingInfo.do
Case # 08CF3283
In progress.
I didn’t realize that this was the norm at the high schools. Anytime a certain group is required to attend a specific school for any reason, the district has to provide free transportation. In addition to all of the costs for a Teen Parent program, the additional costs for transportation would also be prohibitive. Santa Ana is a large city and trying to provide transportation to students during the most congested times (before and after school) is very difficult. I would agree that the abstinence-only approach is a complete and utter failure.
SAUSD stopped teaching abstinance only ages ago when Sal Tinajero was on the Board and was the deciding vot. This was even though his mother was there to support the abstinence only program.
But there is a major problem.SHS has had about 50 pregnant students this year and very few are on track to graduate.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/students-report-santa-2359733-dropouts-year
Report: Santa Ana dropouts may cost community $105 million
Full Register story posted in the News link at OJ.
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