Allen High's 2010 valedictorian says district prepared her well for a Princeton education.
When Tess Bernhard worked as a cashier at Wegmans in Allentown, customers would sometimes ask her where she went to school. “I would have people take steps away from me when I admitted I went to Allen [High], ” she told me. Yet, remarkably, she was never in a fistfight and has no visible gang tattoos. In fact, she says she never felt in danger at the school and had some very dedicated teachers, including those who challenged her in the 11 Advanced Placement courses she took. “They really encouraged anybody to challenge themselves,” said Bernhard, who was Allen’s Class of 2010 valedictorian and is now a sophomore at Princeton University. That doesn’t sound anything like the Allentown schools you read about regularly on the blogosphere …
Author tells Lehigh Valley Tea Party that public school system should be dismantled.
An audience of about 100 gathered at this month's Lehigh Valley Tea Party meeting to see Andrew Bernstein, author of “Capitalist Solutions: A Philosophy of American Moral Dilemmas,” published in October by Transaction Publishers, give his book talk and lecture “Free Market Education” Friday evening at the Chrin Community Center in Palmer Township. Bernstein claims there has been a “horrific decline in educational quality since 1850” and says the public school system should be abolished in favor of private, for-profit educational institutions. “Almost 90 percent of American children are forced to attend abysmal public schools,” he said. “Our education system is in a shambles.” Taxes make it impossible for many to send their children to …
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2:05 pm on Saturday, December 17, 2011
Parental influence is the key to a student's progress. The problem at William Allen is that there an awful lot of kids going there whose parents dont give a hoot about what their children do in school. THEY are the ones that have to be educated first, before their kids can make any progress. more ›