Ulysses S. Grant Senior High

Bill S the teachers at Grant H. is from the same generation as you high school frinds. Have you desipointed the enginering profession to the same degree as your frinds in the teacher progession has......

I graduated from Grant, Class of 76. I am now an Engineer, and my fellow classmates that I have kept track of have also gone on to a successful career. It is sad to see how badly the students are currently doing. I put my own son into a Charter school for just this reason. Charter schools at least hold teachers accountable for their results. By the way, it already looked physically like a prison to me by the time I started attending there. Maybe the impression of a prison now comes from the future of its students, trapped in low income jobs because their teachers failed them. If the public school system faculty doesn't get the message about accountability soon, instead of concentrating on their supposed "rights", then their faculty will have to wave bye bye to their jobs as Charter schools take over. Wake up!!!

I am the parent of a graduate of the 2001 class.

Grant was a great school for my daughter and her friends, most of whom went on to 4 yr universities, Ivy League schools, too.

School is a partnership between the educators, parents, students and community. I do believe, if you are involved, you can succeed. My son will be in the 2014 class!

As a member of Grant's first graduating class in 1961 I am concerned about the information presented here.

It would be enlightening to understand the dynamics involved in Grant's change from an "academic" high school in 1961 to one that obviously has some serious academic issues to solve.

If the statistics are available, a comparison of the number of Grant students from each year that successfully completed tertiary levels of education may demonstrate when the drop in academic standards occurred.

My high school academic achievement was below average however, as a mature age student I became a veterinarian and now live and practice in Australia.

A fellow Grant student, Clayton B Quinn, became a PhD research scientist with GE. Another, Valery Bradley, became a company director in Boston and Washington DC. Another, Gary Paul, completed a PhD in Library Science at Stanford. The list of those who achieved would be impressive.

I drove past the school a year ago and it looks more like a prison than a place of learning.

What Happened?