Highland Park
A STAR IS BORN!!!
Aldama Dual-Immersion Kindergartens star in their own LA Times front page California section piece! Big congratulations to all involved!!! And good luck, kids!!!
Either go to latimes.com and search “Aldama Elementary” (piece ran 9/4/08) or try this link:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-aldama4-2008sep04,0,1141614.story
Our fab Highland Park public school mom pals Jessica and Courtney initially let us know this good news. If you’re looking for great public school options in Highland Park, contact:
Courtney Mykytyn (pronounced Ma-Kitten)
(323) 256-0436
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While we always recommend visiting your local home school first, it’s worth noting that Highland Park is home to:
Latona Elementary
which as of last year was an 8 magnet point school. So if Latona is your home school, your kindergartener is automatically at the topic of any magnet school list. Nearby magnet schools parents say they love include:
Arroyo Seco Museum Magnet (K-grade eight)
Plasencia Math/Science Magnet (K-5) (boasts whom we biasedly feel is one of the best and funniest math teachers in the world!)
Parent contact for Plasencia:
Virginia Keeney (president of Plasencia parent group):
5 Responses to "Highland Park"
November 18, 2008 at 1:03 am
Thanks, Jennifer!
One of our central missions/challenges of this whole 21st century U.S. public education deal is making parents feel empowered, particularly, weirdly enough, powerful parents. Not speaking of Mt. Washington particularly because I don’t truly know the population, although the demographic MAY apply, sometimes the most educated, intelligent parents feel the most helpless and powerless (causing them to “hive” fearfully together in tiny elite enclaves). Meanwhile, out in places like Van Nuys, many of the rest of us are going: “Hey! New parent WITHOUT biker tattoo! THAT’S diversity!”
I can’t wait until Mt. Washington families “brand” a public middle school. . . That would be such a terrific boon for the area.
Best,
Sandra
November 18, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Hello! What does it mean that Latona is an “8 magnet point school.” My son will be attending Kindergarten in the Fall and we live right on the boundary between Latona and Glen Alta, however, the LAUSD School Finder lists our neighborhood school as Glen Alta. I’m wondering if we’d have a better chance at a Magnet school if our local school was Latona?
Thanks for all the information. Love the site!
Mary Jane
November 18, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Dear Mary Jane,
For a primer, go to top right of our website, under PAGES, and scroll down to “Top FAQ’s re: magnet schools.” Feel free to post any further questions once you read that. In the meantime, the short answer is yes, while demographics change from year to year, it currently appears that an LAUSD home school of Latona would yield 8 magnet points (PHBAO and three-track) while Glen Alta would yield 4 magnet points (PHBAO and single-track, which is NOT considered overcrowded).
Best,
Sandra
December 9, 2008 at 4:37 am
Thanks, Sandra, for hyping our Dual Language academy at Aldama… Coming to the end of the fall “semester”, I am so damn happy to say that all is swell at our little neighborhood school. My boy is LOVING his kindergarten teachers and the whole thing is remarkably lovely. Here’s to all your hard work for the public schools. Really!
Cheers,
Courtney
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November 17, 2008 at 11:35 pm
I’d just like to give a “thank you” to Sandra for her suggestions to parents at Mt. Washington elementary. I attended the Magnet school discussion and found it to be very……….insightful. The number one message of: if a parent invests as much time and energy to their child’s future school as they do at Mt. Washington, they’re child and the school will be fine. I’ve seen first hand the parent paranoia. It’s scary. I worked at Mt. Washington for 5 years and I’ve seen some pretty devoted, but crazy parents. Thanks again.