Subject: High School Education

• Here Come the Mexican Walk-outs!

  Am sure you know about the mass immigrant rallies that bloomed across the country this past week. Now, the marchers visit Garden Grove. Just got word that high school students are walking out, and that cops are handing out tickets to jaywalkers--we're looking at you, Officer J.S. Perkins! How long before the rest of la naranja explodes in a sea of peaceful, American flag-waving brown protesters?

  March 27, 2006

• Mater Hey!

  Glad to see the Los Angeles Times follow up earlier this week on the Mater Dei High girl-diddling basketball coach scandal we wrote about in April. Yesterday, a judge ruled attorney John Manly can interrogate anyone he damn wants for the civil trial. Might one of those people be Orange County Treasurer candidate Patrick Desmond? According to Desmond's ballot statement (which we have on our desk but, since we don't know how to scan you'll have to see here), the man was CFO for Mater Dei for a sh

  May 26, 2006

• The Really - Really - Really - Real - This - Time - We - Mean - It OC Recap

  Well the time has finally come to say goodbye to our friends at Newport Harbor. And I say good riddance! I am beside myself with glee. This show officially stunk up the TV waves for far too long and needed to die. And dead it is. God bless America! Here is the gist of the final episode. Chrissy leaves for college and has an emotional goodbye with her BFF Sasha. Then she goes on one final boat cruise with Clay who's staying in Newport because he still has another year of high school to finish.

  October 5, 2007

• Under the radar: ROP to RIP adults from its programs

  For many adults in California, the Regional Occupational Centers and Programs (ROCPs, or ROPs for short) that pepper the state are the final life raft in the sinking ship that is their life. The programs provide a myriad of vocational and technical training to California residents. Let's face it: Babies happen, layoffs occur, and sometimes a career change is a must in order to get away from that whiskey odor that oozes from the pores of your dickhead supervisor as he barks nonsensical orders at

  October 16, 2007

• CCIR Doesn't Just Hate Mexicans

  Few groups have provided a better glimpse into Orange County conservatism's evil, noxious soul like the California Coalition for Immigration Reform, which has provided the Weekly with much fodder over the years. CCIR head Barbara Coe and her minions usually go after illegal aliens (read: Mexicans), so it was nice to see Babs also hates Muslims as well--and she makes no distinction between legal and illegal Muslims, terrorist or non-terrorist Muslims. Just Muslims. Last Thursday, Coe sent out a

  April 2, 2008

• Stupid Proposal

  March 25, 1999

• School Haze

  November 25, 1999

• Fisting, but not Fistfights

  September 21, 2000

• WMD Found! At DiPiazza's in Long Beach.

  I didn't go to DiPiazza's to see a band; I went to drop off some papers for someone who works there. Nonetheless, there I was, Pabst Blue Ribbon in hand, rocking out to a Huntington Beach quartet named WMD.Before they started playing, I could tell they were from Orange County. The singer was wearing a Dead Kennedys shirt and these white new wave sunglasses that used to confuse kids like me, i.e. south Bay locals who always wondered what the relationship between OC punk bands and new wave fashion

  January 22, 2009

• Tsk Tsk tonight in Long Beach

  There's a cool LA band called Tsk Tsk playing at the Puka Bar in Long Beach tonight. Imagine PJ Harvey singing for Led Zeppelin -- that's Tsk Tsk, You might want to know that their dreadlocked guitarist also does time in the Breeders, but even more importantly, singer Kathleen puked on my bedroom floor in high school. Make sure to remind her of that if you see her. To hear songs from their years-in-the-making-yet-not-released full length, click here. The Puka Bar is located at 710 W

  January 26, 2009

• Fullerton College Loves Gustavo for Some Bizarre Reason

  I have a tortured relationship with most of my alma maters. I speak at high schools across Southern California before assemblies and classes, yet have spoken at Anaheim High but once since I graduated in 1997--and when I did, my former biology teacher ridiculed my decision to work for the Weekly. Earlier this year, I visited Orange Coast College for the first time since leaving in 1999. I got banned from a press conference at Chapman University (B.A., Film Studies, 2001) for daring to write that

  March 15, 2009

• Monster Egg Hunt

  Muckenthaler Cultural Center

  April 9, 2009

• Jeezy Chrizzy

  January 29, 2009

• 2 Cool 4 School

  January 1, 2009

• The Antidote

  November 27, 2008

• Aural Reports

  Quiet Storms: Jeff Perez Had to Head South to Make Northern Rise

  October 25, 2007

• Surreal Estate

  A short, strange trip up the winding road to the brand-new, landfill-adjacent San Juan Hills High

  September 13, 2007

• Nerd Love

  Geeky, freaky teen virgins attempt to get knocked up in Superbad, produced by guess who?

  August 16, 2007

• Booting the Camp

  Activist Workshop: Organize to Counter Military Recruitment and Demilitarize our Schools

  July 19, 2007

• Use the Force

  Art Institute professor brings Star Wars to the classroom

  June 21, 2007

• Trendzilla

  Pocket punks are adorable

  May 10, 2007

• [Web Exclusive!] Judging From '17 Again,' Zac Efron Should Stick to Musicals

  April 16, 2009

• Its a Gas, Gas, Gas

  October 21, 1999

• Trendzilla

  Alpha Beta Gamma Whatevers

  January 18, 2007

• It's Soooo High School

  And thats a compliment to Rian Johnsons teen detective noir

  December 28, 2006

• Mcknight Errant

  December 21, 2006

• Young Men With Balls

  June 1, 2006

• Hey, You!

  March 9, 2006

• Trendzilla

  February 16, 2006

• Vincent's Market

  March 31, 2005

• The Year In College Football

  December 30, 2004

• No Child Left Behind the Front Line

  September 30, 2004

• Eight Days

  April 22, 2004

• Still Partying at Ground Zero

  January 29, 2004

• One of us

  December 4, 2003

• Kid Jocks

  September 18, 2003

• A Walrus Shrugged

  December 20, 2001

• Irresolution, Please

  November 15, 2001

• Arrested Development

  August 16, 2001

• I Didnt Do It

  May 3, 2001

• Bob Dornan Hall of Fame

  November 2, 2000

• An F in Business

  January 13, 2000

• Whats the Frequency, Sheriff?

  July 8, 1999

• Out of Sight

  October 1, 1998

• Cooking for a Cause

  April 30, 2009

• Better Graduation Rates: It's in the (Ballet) Shoes

  Perhaps the answer to increasing the percentage of students who graduate from high schools does not involve increased funding, decreased class sizes or a laptop in every locker.Maybe, just maybe, the key is ballet shoes.According to St. Joseph Ballet--the free, long-term, after-school academy based in Santa Ana that primarily serves low-income Latinos--all 21 of its seniors are not only graduating from high school, they all plan to attend college. This marks the fourth straight year that has ha

  June 10, 2009

• Squeeze Put on Orange High School's Pulp Magazine

  The issue in question.AN OPEN LETTER TO LYNN LAI, EDITOR OF ORANGE HIGH SCHOOL'S STUDENT MAGAZINE PULP:Dear Lynn:I read with interest reporter Doug "Teacher's Pet" Irving's piece in the Orange County Register about your principal, SK Johnson, confiscating your magazine over a cover image he believed looked too much like a gang tattoo and content inside he found questionable.It appears from the story that you and your Pulpers are receiving the support of the Student Press Law Center, whose chief

  June 30, 2009

• Lil Wayne

  August 13, 2009

• UPDATED: ACLU Announces Settlement of Suit Tied to Corona del Mar High's Production of "Rent"

  Photo by Matt Coker Karyl Ketchum and Mike Wiggins talk about the hell their 17-year-old daughter Hail endured at Corona del Mar High School last school year.​Three varsity football players at Corona del Mar High School posted a video on the school's Facebook page in January in which they describe how and where they would rape now 17-year-old Hail Ketchum-Wiggins before disclosing the manner in which they would shoot her to death. The video also includes homophobic remarks directed at another

  September 9, 2009

• Blink 182

  September 10, 2009