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Would be neat if you advertised the site around school. Maybe the forum could become the berkeley high forum where everyone goes.

Well, one of my best friend's brother registered late. He doesn't live in Berkeley, and used a fake address late to register. Apparently, if you register late, you don't have any choice in what school you choose, EVEN IF you want large school over anything else.
So now he's stuck in SSJE and hates it.

In the 70's and Berkeley High had about 5 small schools: School of the Arts(performing arts), Genesis(hippie), Agora(political), College Prep(remedially), Model School A (honors stuff).

The year I started Genesis and Agora were combined into one school. That's the one I was mostly in, though I took some classes from MSA, School of the Arts, and the larger (common) school. Much to my surprise, too near the end of my time at BHS, I came to understand that I probably would have been happier in MSA than G-A.

I liked it. It made the whole experience better than it would have been w/out the small schools.

We mostly got whichever school we asked for. Though I had asked for Genesis before they combined and the combination greatly changed the tone of the school. I don't know what having the assignments be by lottery would be like. As a student I wouldn't like it. If the idea is to avoid Balkanization, forget it BHS has always been that way and always will be.

Overall I think small schools is a good idea. I'm amused that they come and go cyclically. Like tracking comes and goes cyclically. When I went they were pretending tracking didn't exist. Which is always a lie, and therefore not really a good thing.

Life is but a span... James

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