Fremont’s magnet likely to survive “reconstitution”

01-13-2010

By Katie Evarts/Intersections L.A.

Laura Torres didn’t want her daughter to go to Locke High School, long known for campus violence and high dropout rates than academic achievement. An immigrant from Mexico who values education but was not able to go to school herself, Torres wanted an environment that would help her daughter, also named Laura, focus on her studies and prepare for college. She knew Locke was not that place. “I didn't like it,” Torres said of Locke through a translator, “because I know people who have their kids there and there are lots of problems. Many fights. I went to the school and I didn't like the area, it didn't look good for my kids.” Torres knew she could keep her daughter out of Locke by signing her up for the magnet program at Fremont High School. She had done the same for her older son, Miguel, who graduated from the magnet program and is now attending college. (more...)

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