High Tech La School

Posted March 31, 2009

Brilliant teachers, challenging liberal arts, math, science and all intellectual disciplines. Don't let the name 'High Tech' fool you -- yes, the school uses state of the art technology, but humanities & liberal arts are astonishing. Housed in an architecturally stunning facility, gated, on the campus of Birmingham High School,my daughter has been enriched by this charter school beyond all her in her previous 9 yrs at two of the top private schools inLA (Before High Tech Los Angeles, CEE(thru 6th grade) & Archer School for Girls (7th & 8th) As result of HTHLA, she has a 4 yr scholarship to Kalamazoo College, featured '40 Colleges That Change Lives'
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Posted February 5, 2009

I love this school because my son is extremely happy. The curriculum is tough but fair and he gets a lot of attention from his teachers. I saw comments on this board about the principal being non-communicative to the parents. Well, my feeling is that it's about the child and not what the parents' needs are. The principal is very hands-on, and doesn't have the time to deal with parents.
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Posted December 2, 2008

My experiences during my years at High Tech High were miserable. The staff is incredibly antagonistic towards the students, creativity is a mechanized system, the teachers rule with fear, and their communist grading system automatically smothers any unfortunate being who might dare to dream. Unless your child is as dry as a prune, sending him or her to this school will be a decision you will regret for the rest of your life.
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Posted June 19, 2008

I was a student at HTH-LA, but left when things were getting out of hand. The school is slowly turning into a complete mess. If more than 3 teachers leave at once, something is not right. I feel the principal is getting too 'power hungry.' I would not recommend parents send their children to HTH-LA at this time. An event that I witnessed during school truly disappointed me. My friend ordered pizzas for us during lunch and as it was handed to us (after paying the driver); it was taken away. Many students did this in the past without any issues as there were no policies against it. The principal confiscated the 4 pizzas and gave them to the teachers to eat. Not only is this wrong and immoral but also illegal as the faculty never reimbursed us. This is only one event of many wrongdoings at HTH-LA.
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