Homicide spike hits home for many at Fremont
February 23, 2012 • Kim Mejia-Cuellar
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Senior Marcus Robinson lost more than 10 relatives and friends, many to violence, One of the 10 was his close friend, Mandela High School sophomore Lovell Hadnot, who was killed in January of last year. “His death made me think that every day, I can be a victim of violence,” said Robinson. Robinson... Read more »
Gay history now required in social studies classes
February 23, 2012 • Deyonvei Frazier
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Gay history is now required to be taught in California public schools, thanks to a law that Gov. Jerry Brown signed in July. The law adds lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans to the groups of people social studies teachers need to include in their history lessons. Reaction to the new law,... Read more »
Tardy sweep rules modified
February 23, 2012 • Jose Rodriguez
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Instead of being swept out the front gate, students roaming campus without a pass are now being swept to class. This is a change from a tardy policy that started in October. On random days, staff members go from one end of the school to the other. They take the names of every student they see without... Read more »
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 »
New Fremont plan includes ‘colleges,’ freshman house
February 16, 2012 • Jorray Hart
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With a new school year, there will be a new Fremont. There could even be a new principal. In addition to having a freshman house next year, Fremont High will be split up into two different colleges. College Preparatory & Architecture Academy will become the College of Science. Media Academy and Mandela... 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 »
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