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Thursday, May 12, 2011

The dumb walk out.

Everyone has their own opinion and I respect that, so please respect mine because I know that a lot of people are against the whole changes that will be happening to the school and those students aren't going to agree with what I am about to put here on my blog.
On May 10, 2011 there was suppose to be a sit-in in Belgrave court to protest against the changes that was planning to be made for the school. Those changes are things like, to make 5 different school, such as Libra Academy, inside Huntington Park, have all the teachers here at Huntington Park reapply to keep their jobs, and changing the schools name.
Some how, at the sit-in, it turned into a walk out and all the student walked all the way to downtown to the district building to protest. I am almost 100% positive that a little over half of those students that walked out went just because they didn't want to go to their other classes. Less then half of those students were truly passionate about protesting. I'll give you my reasons why I am for the changes:
Libra Academy is making way better test scores than all of Huntington Park put together. That's really embarrassing since Libra Academy is filled with pure freshmen and sophomores. If those schools that are going to be made as good as Libra Academy, I don't see why people are complaining!
A lot of the teachers that work here at Huntington Park don't do their jobs as teachers. There are less good teachers that there are bad. I'm not talking about personality wise, there are a bunch of cool as teachers here that pass you and that's why most of you student would like them to stay, but really did you learn anything? For those of the teachers that actually do their job, there shouldn't be any reason for them to not get their job back, so don't worry about that. But for other teachers that don't do there jobs, which I know all of you guys have had at least once, I hope they leave.
Other students are worried about the school's name, how it's sad that it's been called "Huntington Park High School" for over 100 years, "it's not fair." Who gives a rats ass about the name! It's not the name that will be taking you to college or what ever you wish to do with your life, it's the education that you are getting!
All I'm saying is that there are a bunch of students that are here for the wrong reasons, just to chill, to hang, and that needs to stop! There are a few students that I have in some classes that just sit there and do nothing, I only hope that the new changes will do just that. :)

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