Three's a crowd when it comes to Eastside schools

11-10-2009

By Esmeralda Bermudez/Los Angeles Times

Things were a bit discombobulated last week on the Eastside, where a generations-old allegiance to Roosevelt Senior High School has been upset by a new relative: the recently opened Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez Learning Center. At Roosevelt, hallways shimmered with gold and crimson banners hung in anticipation of the biggest football game of the season, against Garfield High School. At the new Mendez high school -- populated by many students transferred from Roosevelt's overcrowded campus -- the walls were bare; the gymnasium empty. At Roosevelt, students celebrated spirit week and crowned a homecoming queen.At Mendez, students felt unsure about their newly selected mascot, the jaguar. There were murmurs of school spirit. (more...)

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