[quote author="no_vaseline" date=1259127850][quote author="bkshopr" date=1259126465][quote author="no_vaseline" date=1259118789][quote author="bkshopr" date=1258714893]Here in IHB standard any school falls short of the top 10 is not acceptable.</blockquote>
And that's a shame. The high school I attended is a 62 - the highest in the county by a long shot. I turned out okay.
The fact somebody is dissing an opportunity to attend an 86 is reprehensible ? and does a disservice to the greatest factor to your child succeeding in education ? namely, involved and active parents.</blockquote>
I hope you did not take my comment seriously.
Can you tell when I am serious and not?</blockquote>
I knew you were messing around, which was fine.
OCresident73 ment it, and that wasn't OK. There is a real meme around here that you nailed dead center, and it more than pisses me off.</blockquote>
Yes, I did mean it, but because I speak from experience, not from some inherent sense of Irvine snobbery. I lived in East Orange for 10 years. I found most of my neighbors, as well as many of the Old Towne historic society people to quite bigoted and intolerable. I attended the raucous school board meetings about 10 years ago, shortly after I moved there, when the El Mo student who tried to start an LGBT club was villified for engaging in beastiality. No, I'm not kidding. I hoped this was just a fluke until I got to know more of my neighbors, and later regretted that, for similar reasons. At the time, Orange Unified teachers were the lowest paid teachers of any district in the county. Now they're about in the middle, but it will take years for morale to improve.
When Steve Rocco was elected to the school board for, as far as anyone can tell, indicating "Educator" as his occupation, I finally knew that Orange residents deserve what they wish for - a poorly run district that thrives on intolerance. While some El Mo parents may very well be involved parents, when they teach their children the kind of horrid stereotypes and ignorance that I heard firsthand, I can only say that I fear for our future, since those kids will be in charge one day.