Week Without Walls, Mr. Sutton

Mr. Sutton's "Careers in sports" for Week Without Walls 2009 at LPS - College Park.

Not all students will play professional sports, but that does not mean they won't work in professional sports; whether that is for a team, league, or an advertising or marketing agency that promotes a specific team. The opportunities are endless, but the competition to get into the field is steep.

This week was about the "product" (real world experience) and each student:
1) Researched a real job in sports and what is required in terms of qualifications.
2) Created a poster board with a road map indicating the individual steps necessary to obtaining the job. Students completed their high school planner on www.csumentor.edu and determined exactly which classes they need to complete in order to get into college. They also identified which colleges offer their needed degrees/majors and potential internships for their college years that will help them gain experience and a competitive edge.
3) Created a professional resume written for the specific job they researched.
4) Wrote a cover letter to the company hiring for the position they are pursuing.
5) And most importantly, students learned how to network and the importance of building contacts and relationships with professionals.
6) Developed their own business cards with their skills and contact information to pass out while networking.

Note: Three students have established contact with personnel at the Oakland Raiders office due to this class and are pursuing summer jobs and internships with the Raiders. Best of luck to them!

The Rules About Hats During Class, Manuel Perez

People have many excuses for not taking their hats during class time, but one of the most famous one is that they didn’t do their hair that morning. Well having a hat head is not as bad as having Mr. Sutton’s helmet head. Another lame excuse is that it is getting cold now a days. Wow, how can hats make you not be cold when they don’t even cover your ears, well that’s if you wear them like I do. Well there are hats with ear muffs. Like Josue Alvarado that bought the black one with white outlines. It’s funny that I say that they’re lame excuses when I myself use those excuses. Now what’s with these rules about wearing hats in leadership public schools college park. Mr. Reed says that there are different rules depending in what class you wear a hat in. Like for example, different teachers have different rules about wearing hats in their class. He also says that hats should already be off when you come in the building.

The Different LPS Schools, Lashanna Pegues

As everybody knows there are different Leadership Public Schools in California. There is a L.P.S. college park, there is a L.P.S. Richmond, there is a L.P.S. San Jose, and there is also a L.P.S. Hayward. L.P.S. focuses on academics and they make sure that all students that attend to those schools make it into college. So to have four schools in four different locations is a good thing. It will make sure that students in four different locations will at least graduate high schools because so many students are high school drop outs. I’m pretty sure that administration is hoping that they can do their best for the students. The L.P.S. schools are charter schools that are very determined to their students and I believe that most people that good there will have a good future.

Spring Break, genaro Moreno

Spring break, also known as March break, Study Week or Reading Week in some parts of Canada, is a week long recess from studying in early spring at universities and schools in the Unite States.

In the United States, spring break may range from the middle of March to later days in April, but many schools are out for at least one of the weeks in March. Some schools call this "March break" when it is a middle week in March. Other schools call it "spring recess." Many institutions in the United States coincide their spring break with Easter and Passover.

In New York most students have spring break in April. Spring break is good for students because students relax and also the students can be with their family more time. Different schools have spring break different weeks. Here at LPS College Park we have spring break the 13 of April we have one week off.

Also this break is not just for students this is also for teachers too so they can organize their work and also they can be with their family more time relive their stress from school and also when we come back to school we come with a lot of energy to finish all our work we missing or something that you need to finish.

The Fitness Class, Sandra Ruvalcaba

What is a fitness class? A fitness class is places were people work their body to get a better structure. At L.P.S College Park there is a class that helps girl with their body figure. Miss Teresa Ruvalcaba is in this fitness class because she wants to work on her feminine figure. This
class occurs in room 124(Multi-Purpose room) on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Miss Ruvalcaba informed us that 10 young ladies attend this class after school. From this fitness class, the ladies that attend expect to get a well developed body with stronger muscles. "All of the girls in the class get along really well. We are all so committed to our goal. “We share their supplies and help each other out," said Teresa Ruvalcaba. The fitness ladies will do whatever it takes to achieve their goals. Some of the exercises that the girls practice are: push-UPS and seat-UPS. The girls commented on the class being really hard, and it is also two hours long. But, they still love to stay. "In order to achieve our main goal, we have to be on a special diet and focus on the exercises so we can get the results we want," confessed Miss Ruvalcaba. The hardest activity the girls have had to do is run ten times up and down the stairs. The exercise was worth it. The girls are rarely absent to the class. It will be a long process in order to have a great body, so think twice and make sure that you are committed before you try it!

Stupid Rules

Don’t you just hate whenever a school changes our principle. Not just that but making all these stupid and unfair rules. I’ve heard a whole bunch of complaints from a bunch of people saying they live too far and they can’t help coming to school late. We have people living all the way next to Bayfair mall. Now you tell me if these stupid rules aren’t unfair. People get made fun of now and days because of their hair now this is because students take their hats off because of their fear of “demerits”. Now students will have to go to therapy when they are older because of demerits and whose fault is that, the new principles. Get too many demerits and you get a call home to your parents. Then when the kids go home they unexpectedly get a whooping and they’re officially grounded for two months so now tell me if this isn’t an unfair rule.

We Are Missing the Oink, Manuel Perez

I was watching animal planet last week and I noticed that dogs are trained not to crap where they live. I thought that humans would be smarter than dogs but Leadership Public Schools-College Park proved me wrong. It appears that Leadership Public Schools-College Park students are like pigs living on their own poo. Students make this school worse and worse with tagging, urinating on floors in bathrooms, and last but not least stuffing the desks with trash. I have seen molded leftovers fall out while cleaning, that’s disgusting man!

Dirtiness in school affects me by making me not concentrate. That makes me loose some major education. What kind of people can concentrate when u sniff up some evaporated urine? What would you do if you stick your hand in your desk and you touch a molded sandwich? Now instead of feeling fresh I feel rotten from the inside and the outside. I don’t know why rats haven’t come in our school, or have they? Rats would be happy living here because it like being at the dumpster. My nose is irritated by this disgusting smells! When ever I put my hand under the desk I feel like I’m putting my hand in the toilet. The only thing we are missing in this school is the huge and loud oink.