by altha-admin | Apr 21, 2012 | Articles
Speech from Charlie Chaplin's 'The Great Dictator' I am tired of populists who look to ensnare the souls and minds of human beings, as if appealing to their sense of self tied in with their meaning in a group will liberate man from his present...
by altha-admin | Apr 21, 2012 | Articles
South East High School in South Gate opened in Fall of 2006, to help relieve overcrowding in nearby South Gate and Huntington Park High Schools. It did not seem to help much, because the average class had 42 students. The first ten weeks of the school year, there were...
by altha-admin | Apr 21, 2012 | Articles
The Academic Advantage had one fundamental disadvantage: they were funded by federal dollars from No Child Left Behind. I sat through two days’ worth of rules and regulations. The whole thing would have put most people to sleep. At the time, I was just so excited...
by altha-admin | Apr 21, 2012 | Articles
It was about two weeks ago — I am writing this in September 2012, yet I am including this note their the comments that I have made about Salk and the students whom I met there. I met some of the students who were enrolled in the Jonas Salk program at one of the...
by altha-admin | Apr 21, 2012 | Articles
"The Academic Advantage" — the last vestige of education which I ventured to explore. I was learning so much, doing so much, and I was really excited. For the first time in a long time, I had given myself permission that I did not have to be a teacher,...
