Manhood Development class aims to support black males
February 16, 2012 • Kemish Rosales
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Fremont Federation of High Schools has freshmen added a new elective — Manhood Development — specifically designed to help African American males succeed. The class is taught by Jason Seals, who also teaches at Merritt College and who ran a pull-out class called “Males in Motion” for... Read more »
Media drops Spanish from freshman schedule
January 6, 2012 • Pearl Joy Balagot & Tiffany Sanders
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To save teacher jobs, Media Academy freshmen are not taking Spanish classes this year. School officials decided freshmen should take two media classes instead. That’s the explanation Media Academy director Michael Jackson gave the Green & Gold. Due to declining enrollment at Media, there weren’t... Read more »
Teachers weave movement into math, history, journalism
January 3, 2012 • Jorray Hart
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Teachers have been occupied with tying a worldwide issue with an Oakland angle into their classrooms lessons — Occupy Oakland. During the first week of Occupy Wall Street, social studies teacher Elizabeth Siarny began teaching her Media Academy students in American Government about the movement. She... Read more »
New tardy policy sweeps students out of school gates
January 3, 2012 • Martin Ortiz & Jose Rodriguez
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Students without hall passes are getting swept off campus and they must stay there until the next period starts. That is the new truancy policy that began at the Fremont Federation of High Schools campus on Oct. 3. Students have mixed reactions on the policy. Some think the truancy sweep is a good idea,... Read more »
Belarus visitors teach students about censored news
January 2, 2012 • Frenanda Lopez
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Students got a taste of a 10,000-year-old country on Nov. 4 , when five visitors from the European country of Belarus visited Media Academy. Belarus, composed of 800,000 mostly Jewish people, used to be part of the Soviet Union but broke away in 1991. The visitors spoke to fourth period Michael Jackson’s... Read more »
Freshmen Receive Reading Assistance
December 15, 2011 • Jameela Rougeau
& Sherry Munguia
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Fremont students are now getting help in reading with a new literacy program. Literacy specialist Michelle Gonzalez started teaching “Academic Literacy” in the first few weeks of the school year and already some students have “graduated” from the class with improved reading skills. Students... Read more »
Occupy Oakland draws students, teachers to General Strike
November 26, 2011 • Diego Garcia & Kemish Rosales
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“Kim Kardashian’s wedding could have paid for my college tuition for 580 years… And I’m supposed to be okay with that?” This was one of thousands of signs carried by protesters at the General Strike held in front of Oakland’s City Hall on Nov. 2. The strike was called as part of the Occupy... Read more »
Fremont debate wins first place on home turf
November 5, 2011 • Gloria "Jack" Mejia-Cuellar
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Debaters Jazmin and Diego Garcia beat out Skyline to win first place varsity team. The tournament held at Fremont on Nov. 5. Diego Garcia, a Media Academy junior, also won first place varsity speaker at the tournament. Nick Ross, a junior at Mandela Academy, won first place junior varsity team, debating... Read more »
Bullying is the target of freshman workshop
November 3, 2011 • DeAnna Wooden
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Bullying at Fremont includes cyber threats, fighting and name calling. That’s what Media Academy freshmen said during an anti-bullying workshop on Nov. 3. The workshop was run by volunteers from the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Public Health and took place in three... Read more »
Fremont campus would be rebuilt under district plan
November 1, 2011 • Katelyn Bauzon
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Momentum is growing for a plan to rebuild the whole Fremont campus. It is unclear how much money the school district will try to raise for the project, but some people say it could be as much as $70 million. “Rebuilding the facilities would be one of the most critical ways we can improve the image... Read more »
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