Crenshaw Senior High

Concerned graduate of "83". I think the kids today has an attitude of not caring, not realizing this is their future and you have to have a degrees and proof of graduating to get a job today. Kids do not know the long run of not learning and getting all you can, extra means less you will need to know in the future and the better repaired they will be to take on any challenge.

Crenshaw is a school of diverse backgrounds that struggles to succeed in an environment of citizens who sometimes lack incentive. Teachers must invest their time and care to override the plight of the students surroundings. The love and necessity of education must be shared and modeled by those in authority. The students who attend Crenshaw are creative and intelligent and need true leaders of their community to step up and get involved. Teachers and administrators must concentrate on the hearts and minds of their students in a more positive way. A teacher dress code should be enforced and intense class room visits from the district must take place for the academic environment of Crenshaw HS to rise to an acceptable standard. Teachers and administrators must reform the school by tightening up security and creating mandatory intervention courses.

The problems will never be solved because too many students are not in school. It does no good to count students without looking at the excessive absent or truancy. There is no penalty for being absent as the school/teacher is required to provide "make up work". The allure of lots of money right now is too great a lure for yound people these days.
I have had students challenge me about comparing my teacher's monthly pay against what was earned by any drug dealing student. The brag was " ha ha- I made that this morning on the way to school". That was a kid who was there! Too many are not in school and should not be scored-

Crenshaw High School, like UTLA and LAUSD, cares more about protecting the salaries of incompetent administrators than it does about students. The bottom line is that there is no mechanism in place at Crenshaw to control student behavior (which is uniformly atrocious) or eliminate excessive absences. The net effect is that the troublemakers run the school and the students who want to get an education can't learn because of the chaos swirling around them. The situation at Crenshaw High School is a human rights violation.

wow, look at those test scores! 2% proficient? now, i wonder if the parents at this "proud" high school made their kids learn their math? give me a break, all the money in the world won't fix this broken community.

My first teaching experience was at Crenshaw High School. Those were wonderful years. I can remember the APEX program, whereby we had students coming from Chatsworth and other high schools to get certain courses. I spent many years at Crenshaw. I am not in Texas, retired as a former Principal. I have nothing but good things to say about Crenshaw. Of course that was many years ago.

When I attended Crenshaw, Dr. Jubert walked the halls inspecting the classrooms asking students about their education. We had guidance counselors who tracked our progress from day one until we graduated. I wanted my sons to go to my alma mater but I opted for a private school education because of the accreditation problem the school had a few years back. LAUSD please get back to the basics of educating our children.

Kenneth Smith, Class of 83'

I am a 15 year old student that attend crenshaw, and it is really a organized school. The reason we have low test scores is because the students is the ones that are not applying their selves. If they would pay attention more in class & do the work im sure the test scores would go way up. I transfered to crenshaw from a charter school, andd my grades was really bad. But ever since I came here, I been maintaing a 3.8 so its not the school fault. And another thing is, many students are not in school because of their parents not caring. Well not saying about all parents but 50% of them is the reason. They are not paying attention to their children.