Hard Work … Works!
The LA Times supports Area Man’s post below with an article today on King/Drew Medical Magnet High School, which despite its Watts location, sends students to UCLA, Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Duke, Cornell, and other UC campuses:
“It demands that students take the rigorous courses meeting UC and Cal State system requirements. That means, among other things, four years of math, two years of science and two years of foreign language. King/Drew actually goes further and requires a third year of foreign language and four years of science.”
One reason for its success is that the parents chose it for their kids:
“‘Our mom let us choose our high school — thank God,’ said Tiffany Russell, a 5-foot-3-inch bundle of intellectual energy wrapped in cornrows. She lives within three blocks of Washington Preparatory High School, among the city’s lowest-performing schools.”
She must not know that school choice is a bad thing.
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