Comment by 2718i314

I went to SF schools including Lowell. Lowell, at the time, was blessed with strong science and mathematics teachers and a particularly great English composition teacher. Lowell possesses an extremely strong alumni community who are grateful for the education they received. If you look at school rankings at the time, Lowell was ranked in the top 100 high schools in the nation. Lowell has more Nobel Prize winners than most colleges and universities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lowell_High_School_(Sa... My proposed solutions aren’t whimsy. They are proposed solutions to problems that a classmate of mine at Lowell encountered. He and I were both low income, so we had free lunch. He complained that there was no quiet place for him to study at home. He is Hispanic. I am Asian. Teachers preferred teaching at Lowell because the students wanted to learn and because they didn’t like the chaos found at other high schools including fights, gangs, and truancy.