Talk:Irvington High School (Fremont, California)

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[edit] Cutnpaste Move

Prior to 21March2006, this page was located at Irvington High School, now a dab page. The old history is located here, before the edit of User:J. Finkelstein. -- Jjjsixsix ^(t)/_(c) @ 04:39, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Academics

The below section under "Academics" as written:

It should be noted that Irvington High School was once not a school with high academic achievements. It has been said that the sole reason for Irvington's recent development in that category is the transfer of students from Weibel Elementary School. However, while it's obvious Weibel Elementary School has made a positive change on Irvington's test scores, Weibel Elementary School is only a small portion of Irvington's students. A much greater possibility is that students from other schools served as examples, and the inspiration was enough to raise Irvington's academic achievement.

The above passaage is bias and speculative, and should warrant a citation. Student from Weibel Elementary School do not, nor cannot feed directly into Irvington High School. As is the case in any public school system in the United States, unless a student is gifted, elementry school students matriculate into a junior high or middle school, than they move onto high school.

I recommend that this whole section be stricken. I attended Irvington High School in the early 1990's and the differnece between the Weible neighborhood of Fremont and Irvington disctrict is very little. Both are middle to upper middle class, with the housing tracks in Weibel being slightly newer than the older housing track of Irvington district. While the Weibel neighborhood benefited from the high tax revenues of other parts of mission san jose district, very little seperates the two area other than a larger working class population in the Irvington district as a result of the pre-silcon valley economies in which many autoworkers from Genreal Motors in Fremont, Peterbuilt, Trail Mobile, and Caterpillar in Newark,Ca, and Ford Motors in Milpitas,CA resided in the Irvington district. However, as Unionized laborers these workers made a good wage for the time, maybe as well of a living as those currently in the Weibel neighborhood given inflation and cost of living in California of the 1970's and 1980's.

If this section should stay it should speak rather to the major re-organzation that took place in the middle to late 90's under the leadership of Principal Gaskill and Vice-Principal (current Principal) Pete Murchison (check spelling). As all of the accolades currently enjoyed by IHS were earned prior the the FUSD reorganization which placed the Weibel neighborhood in the IHS service area. This can easily be verifyed by crossing the early state-wide and national honors Irvington High School earned in the mid-1990's. Thus, de-bunking the assertion that Weibel neighborhood elemtry school students are responsible for the academic excellence of IHS.