• en_US
  • es_MX
  • Community Resources
  • About Us
  • Archives
Monday, May 12, 2025
No Result
View All Result

  • La Jolla Village News
    • Top Stories
    • News
    • Features
    • Opinion
    • Education
    • Arts Entertainment
    • Sports
    • Business Directory
    • Expert Advice
    • Real Estate
  • Beach Bay Press
    • Top Stories
    • News
    • Features
    • Opinion
    • Education
    • Arts Entertainment
    • Sports
    • Business Directory
    • Expert Advice
    • Real Estate
  • Peninsula Beacon
    • Top Stories
    • News
    • Features
    • Opinion
    • Education
    • Arts Entertainment
    • Sports
    • Business Directory
    • Expert Advice
    • Real Estate
  • Downtown News
    • Top Stories
    • News
    • Features
    • Opinion
    • Education
    • Arts Entertainment
    • Sports
    • Business Directory
    • Expert Advice
    • Real Estate
  • Uptown News
    • Top Stories
    • News
    • Features
    • Opinion
    • Education
    • Arts Entertainment
    • Sports
    • Business Directory
    • Expert Advice
    • Real Estate
  • La Mesa Courier
    • Top Stories
    • News
    • Features
    • Opinion
    • Education
    • Arts Entertainment
    • Sports
    • Business Directory
    • Expert Advice
    • Real Estate
  • Mission Times Courier
    • Top Stories
    • News
    • Features
    • Opinion
    • Education
    • Arts Entertainment
    • Sports
    • Business Directory
    • Expert Advice
    • Real Estate
  • College Times Courier
    • Top Stories
    • News
    • Features
    • Opinion
    • Education
    • Arts Entertainment
    • Sports
    • Business Directory
    • Expert Advice
    • Real Estate
  • Mission Valley News
    • Top Stories
    • News
    • Features
    • Opinion
    • Education
    • Arts Entertainment
    • Sports
    • Business Directory
    • Expert Advice
    • Real Estate
  • Home
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Community Resources
    • Report News
  • Publications
    • La Jolla Village News
      • Top Stories
      • News
      • Features
      • Opinion
      • Education
      • Art & Entertainment
      • Sports
      • Business Directory
      • Expert Advice
      • Real Estate
    • Beach Bay Press
      • Top Stories
      • News
      • Features
      • Opinion
      • Education
      • Art & Entertainment
      • Sports
      • Business Directory
      • Expert Advice
      • Real Estate
    • Peninsula Beacon
      • Top Stories
      • News
      • Features
      • Opinion
      • Education
      • Art & Entertainment
      • Sports
      • Business Directory
      • Expert Advice
      • Real Estate
    • Downtown News
      • Top Stories
      • News
      • Features
      • Opinion
      • Education
      • Art & Entertainment
      • Sports
      • Business Directory
      • Expert Advice
      • Real Estate
    • Uptown News
      • Top Stories
      • News
      • Features
      • Opinion
      • Education
      • Art & Entertainment
      • Sports
      • Business Directory
      • Expert Advice
      • Real Estate
    • La Mesa Courier
      • Top Stories
      • News
      • Features
      • Opinion
      • Education
      • Art & Entertainment
      • Sports
      • Business Directory
      • Expert Advice
      • Real Estate
    • Mission Times Courier
      • Top Stories
      • News
      • Features
      • Opinion
      • Education
      • Art & Entertainment
      • Sports
      • Business Directory
      • Expert Advice
      • Real Estate
    • College Times Courier
      • Top Stories
      • News
      • Features
      • Opinion
      • Education
      • Art & Entertainment
      • Sports
      • Business Directory
      • Expert Advice
      • Real Estate
    • Mission Valley News
      • Top Stories
      • News
      • Features
      • Opinion
      • Education
      • Art & Entertainment
      • Sports
      • Business Directory
      • Expert Advice
      • Real Estate
    • Find Your Newspaper
    • Archives
  • News
    • Features
    • Opinion
    • Art & Entertainment
    • Education
    • Local Sports
    • Report News
  • Event Calendar
  • Business Directory
  • Subscribe
  • Advertise
  • Digital Editions/Archives
SDNews.com
Home Duplicate

Possible school closures unfair to PB, Peninsula

Tech by Tech
October 26, 2011
in Duplicate, Opinion, Peninsula Beacon
Reading Time: 2 mins read
0 0
A A
0
0
SHARES
2
VIEWS

The San Diego Unified School District’s Board of Education should reject the staff recommendations to close two middle schools: Pacific Beach Middle School, and either Dana or Correia in Point Loma. These are not merely school closures, but drastic realignments of the entire educational system in those two clusters. Such a radical change should not be undertaken just to save a buck, without any educational rationale or even any study of the educational impacts.  In the Mission Bay cluster, district officials are proposing to eliminate the middle school entirely and combine grades 7 through 12 on the Mission Bay High School campus. The six-year high school is a concept that was abandoned by most of American education several generations ago, for sound educational and developmental reasons. Before going back to it, there should be a real evaluation of the idea, and the community and educators should be given a chance to buy into it or reject it. It should not be imposed by fiat from downtown for purely financial reasons.  In Point Loma, the district is proposing to destroy a unique alignment that has produced some of the highest-achieving middle schools in the district. (Dana Middle has the highest API score of any of the schools proposed for closure.) Currently, all fifth- and sixth-graders in the Point Loma cluster attend Dana Middle as a transition from elementary to secondary education, while seventh- and eighth-graders attend a traditional middle school at Correia. This highly popular system was developed with a lot of community input, and the results show how effective it is in educating these grades. Again, the district staff is proposing to blow up this system without any thought to the educational effect of the change. All fifth-graders would be sent back to the elementary schools, increasing their student bodies by 25 percent (this includes the effect of an elementary school closure which is also proposed for the cluster). The remaining 7-8-9 middle school would have to absorb a 50 percent increase in its enrollment. The district’s own figures show that the elementary schools and the remaining middle school would not have the capacity for such an increase.  We all know the district has serious financial problems, but let’s solve them is a way that is smart and fair. Go ahead and close elementary schools, where the students can be dispersed into nearby elementary schools without drastically realigning the entire educational system of the cluster. And spread the closures out more fairly throughout the district. The current plan puts half of the closures into just two clusters, Point Loma and Mission Bay. That’s not fair and it’s not right. 

Previous Post

Baby scratcher gets jail time

Next Post

Perking up the community, one cup at a time

Tech

Tech

RelatedPosts

wave
SDNews - News

San Diego Wave settles for controversial draw

by Hector Trujillo
May 12, 2025
sdfc
SDNews - News

San Diego FC beats St. Louis on the road

by Hector Trujillo
May 12, 2025
wildfire preparedness week 2025 san diego 54504604270 o
La Mesa Courier - News

San Diego burn demonstration underscores value of wildfire mitigation measures

by SDNEWS staff
May 12, 2025
image1
Downtown News - Expert Advice

How Employees Can Contribute to Improving Workplace Safety

by San Diego Community Newspaper Group
May 12, 2025
2025 graduation ceremony 5
Downtown News - News

City of San Diego recognizes graduates of Adult High School Diploma Program

by SDNEWS staff
May 12, 2025
img 6838
College Times Courier - Top Stories

SDSU softball takes conference crown, moves on to Los Angeles Regional

by Dave Thomas
May 12, 2025
little free library
Beach & Bay Press - Features

Little Free Libraries sprouting up like spring flowers in Pacific Beach

by Dave Schwab
May 11, 2025
page 6 editor's desk mtc
College Times Courier - Opinion

Soak in all school has to offer 

by Dave Thomas
May 11, 2025
Next Post
Possible school closures unfair to PB, Peninsula

Perking up the community, one cup at a time

Discussion about this post

  • SD News
  • Event Calendar
  • Business Directory
  • Advertise
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Community Resources
  • Staff Writers
  • Subscriptions/Support
  • Publications
  • La Jolla Village News
  • Beach Bay Press
  • Peninsula Beacon
  • Downtown News
  • Uptown News
  • La Mesa Courier
  • Mission Times Courier
  • College Times Courier
  • Mission Valley News
  • Find Your Newspaper
  • Archives
  • News
  • Features
  • Opinion
  • Arts Entertainment
  • Education
  • Local Sports
  • Report News

CONNECT + SHARE

© Copyright 2024 SDNews.com Privacy Policy

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
No Result
View All Result
  • en_US
  • es_MX
  • SDNews.com
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
  • La Jolla Village News
    • Top Stories
    • News
    • Features
    • Opinion
    • Education
    • Art & Entertainment
    • Sports
    • Business Directory
    • Expert Advice
    • Real Estate
  • Beach Bay Press
    • Top Stories
    • News
    • Features
    • Opinion
    • Education
    • Art & Entertainment
    • Sports
    • Business Directory
    • Expert Advice
    • Real Estate
  • Peninsula Beacon
    • Top Stories
    • News
    • Features
    • Opinion
    • Education
    • Art & Entertainment
    • Sports
    • Business Directory
    • Expert Advice
    • Real Estate
  • Downtown News
    • Top Stories
    • News
    • Features
    • Opinion
    • Education
    • Art & Entertainment
    • Sports
    • Business Directory
    • Expert Advice
    • Real Estate
  • Uptown News
    • Top Stories
    • News
    • Features
    • Opinion
    • Education
    • Art & Entertainment
    • Sports
    • Business Directory
    • Expert Advice
    • Real Estate
  • La Mesa Courier
    • Top Stories
    • News
    • Features
    • Opinion
    • Education
    • Art & Entertainment
    • Sports
    • Business Directory
    • Expert Advice
    • Real Estate
  • Mission Times Courier
    • Top Stories
    • News
    • Features
    • Opinion
    • Education
    • Art & Entertainment
    • Sports
    • Business Directory
    • Expert Advice
    • Real Estate
  • College Times Courier
    • Top Stories
    • News
    • Features
    • Opinion
    • Education
    • Art & Entertainment
    • Sports
    • Business Directory
    • Expert Advice
    • Real Estate
  • Mission Valley News
    • Top Stories
    • News
    • Features
    • Opinion
    • Education
    • Art & Entertainment
    • Sports
    • Business Directory
    • Expert Advice
    • Real Estate
  • Subscribe
  • Advertise
  • Report News
  • Find Your Newspaper
  • Digital Editions/Archives
  • Community Resources
  • RSS Feeds

© Copyright 2024 SDNews.com Privacy Policy