Balboa and Leadership High Should Be Kept Seperate
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We, the undersigned, are the community and the foundation of Balboa High School.
After asking and receiving the opinion of many faculty members and students around our school, we have come to a universal consensus.
All of the students, parents and faculty members that we asked strongly disagreed with the merging.
This is caused by the following:
1. We will lose our own space in school.
- The third floor and basement of Balboa will be lost to Leadership High
2. The schedule that many students of Balboa are used to, may change.
- Leadership is a charter school, which means the state of California must cater to their needs. Bell schedules will be different, which may interfere with our fellow peers' education.
- Early dismissal on Wednesdays may be lost. This early dismissal on Wednesdays allowed students to go home and catch up on homework.
3. Spawning of hatred between schools.
- If the schools do merge, Leadership and Balboa may suffer high levels of rivalry to see the other school fail.
- Fights may break out between schools
4. Classrooms will be extremely crowded.
- Leadership is a charter school, and they are used to 15-20 students per class. This will cause the students Balboa High to suffer in extremely crowded classrooms. Our classes are crowded enough as it is, and having to endure more students per class will interfere with our learning. This definitely goes against the SLC (Small Learning Communities) that the SFUSD is aiming for.
After asking and receiving the opinion of many faculty members and students around our school, we have come to a universal consensus.
All of the students, parents and faculty members that we asked strongly disagreed with the merging.
This is caused by the following:
1. We will lose our own space in school.
- The third floor and basement of Balboa will be lost to Leadership High
2. The schedule that many students of Balboa are used to, may change.
- Leadership is a charter school, which means the state of California must cater to their needs. Bell schedules will be different, which may interfere with our fellow peers' education.
- Early dismissal on Wednesdays may be lost. This early dismissal on Wednesdays allowed students to go home and catch up on homework.
3. Spawning of hatred between schools.
- If the schools do merge, Leadership and Balboa may suffer high levels of rivalry to see the other school fail.
- Fights may break out between schools
4. Classrooms will be extremely crowded.
- Leadership is a charter school, and they are used to 15-20 students per class. This will cause the students Balboa High to suffer in extremely crowded classrooms. Our classes are crowded enough as it is, and having to endure more students per class will interfere with our learning. This definitely goes against the SLC (Small Learning Communities) that the SFUSD is aiming for.
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350 signatures
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Latest Signatures
13 January 2016
350.
Angelina F
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Walking from one class to another is already hard as it is. So many people crowd the halls and stairways. Putting Leadership in our school would make matters extremely worse. I'm very sure that no student from Balboa would like to give up their education
5 January 2016
28 December 2015
348.
Guadalupe C
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please do NOT merge our school with Leadership,it will just cause a LOT of unnecessary stress.
10 December 2015
347.
Nancy M
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why should we have to merge and change everything, from our class schedules to our daily reutines, just for people who HAVE a school to go to already? They DO HAVE bungalows. And it`s not balboa`s fault for what leadership has become. It`s what y`all get
5 November 2015
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1 September 2015
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Jeffrey Fh
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I, a current Balboa student, STRONGLY disagree with the proposal to merge Balboa High and Leadership [Charter] High School. The SFUSD cannot torture Balboa with the burden of Leadership's students, principal, and faculty being crammed into Balboa's alread
31 August 2015
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27 July 2015
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23 June 2015
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Philip L
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we should be seperate for teh safety of students. Gang wars would happen if we combined.
26 May 2015
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13 May 2015
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Andrea W
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Iam graduating this year but i still support my school and i dont think the merging of schools will be a success.
29 March 2015
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24 February 2015
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