Thursday, October 16, 2008

Relieving Overcrowding at San Pedro High School

If you support the construction of South Region High School #15 because the Los Angeles Unified School District told you that building it was necessary to relieve the overcrowding ONLY at San Pedro High School, this post has some information that you need to read.

If you believe folks at LAUSD are completely forthcoming with their propaganda concerning who would attend the new campus, please read the document prepared for LAUSD.

If you find yourself feeling cheated because you offered your trust in LAUSD, please don't feel so bad. It seems they are in the business of misinformation, double-speak, and deception by some in order to push forward schools that communities don't want.

If you feel that San Pedro is going to suffer because of a need to relieve suggested overcrowding at Narbonne High School, you are not alone. Oh, by the way, there is less overcrowding at Narbonne High School than there is at San Pedro High School.

If you click on the document it will get bigger and you should get madder!

"South Region High School #15 needs to be built to ease overcrowding at San Pedro High School."

How many times have you read or heard that, and really believed it?

"South Region High School #15 needs to be built to ease overcrowding at San Pedro High School."

The main reason to build SRHS 15 is to reduce the number of students at San Pedro High School.
"South Region High School #15 needs to be built to ease overcrowding at San Pedro High School."

Students will be allowed to go to a new campus from San Pedro High School because the current high school is too overcrowded and needs relief.

"South Region High School #15 needs to be built to ease overcrowding at San Pedro High School."

Due to a recent request utilizing the Freedom of Information Act, internal documents reveal that if SRHS 15 is built, 150 of the 800 students' seats proposed to be at the new campus will go to students who would have normally attended Narbonne High School.

It is believed that a "boundary change" will be inacted moving areas that would normally have sent high school students to Narbonne High School, to the San Pedro area high school(s).

So it seems 150 slots that could go to students attending the "overcrowded" San Pedro High School campus, would be eliminated because those seats would go to students who would normally attend Narbonne High School.

I think I have written a thing or two about the deception practiced regularly by some at LAUSD.
I think this latest information demonstrates clearly that LAUSD can not be trusted.

"South Region High School #15 needs to be built to ease overcrowding at San Pedro High School."

I guess now the quote needs to be changed to something like; South Region High School #15 needs to be built to ease overcrowding at San Pedro High School and Narbonne High School, or something to that effect.

Please continue to visit the following Web site for great information:
Let's analysis what was produced in May, 2008 and around the time the plans for SRHS 15 were changed.
San Pedro High School is 15.7 acres SMALLER in size than Narbonne High School.
S.P.H.S. has had, currently has, and will ultimately have, more students attending it than at Narbonne High School.
Statements made by LAUSD personnell and by a member of the Board of Education since May, 2008 stating that the new campus would be used to relieve overcrowding specifically at San Pedro High School are FALSE and UNTRUE.
Even after the construction of the proposed new campus, Narbonne High School would be further away from its capacity than San Pedro High School will be.
There are more 'portable classrooms' at the smaller (San Pedro High School) campus.
I think you get the picture.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What amazes me is how communities like ours have lost control of determining how they are configured. We have a mega-organization (as insensitive as any mega-corporation), LAUSD, sending down edicts about how our community is to be unalterably changed - how it must accommodate non-stakeholders by changing the traffic & population in otherwise quiet neighborhoods - without our objections counting a bit! Meanwhile, our existing high school is passed over for a much-needed infusion of $$$ to build infrastructure that has been held together with "temporary" structures for decades! It's amazing to me that we are living this social-political reality and I wished more of us were as outraged as I am.