Morning Report: The Imported School
Posted: Monday, December 6, 2010 8:19 am |Updated: 9:30 am, Mon Dec 6, 2010.
Posted on December 6, 2010
Mission Bay High essentiallywouldn't exist if it weren't for San Diego Unified's practice of busing students in and out of different neighborhoods: Nearly 80 percent of its students come from outside the area.
"We really are an inner-city school at the beach," one parent says.
Everyday life at Mission Bay High revolves around the school bus. Teachers start class late on rainy days to give the buses the extra time they need. School administrators need to know other parts of the city well and have held parent meetings as far away as Sherman Heights. The student body president has made it her mission to improve school spirit in a place where attending afterschool activities is always complicated by transportation.
"The unusual school is one window into the evolution of busing in San Diego Unified," writes education reporter Emily Alpert, "a longtime fact of school life that is still hotly debated between those who believe busing is a golden ticket to opportunity and those
