SLHS NOW
Below you will see the slide show of SLHS created last year.
Again, at each corridor was a security guard screaming at students if they were in the hallway during class. At first, I thought they were screaming at me. Also, do you remember our Cafeteria? It is now used for students who have been expelled. I spoke with the Principal and asked why there were so many students (at least 100 students) in the cafeteria at 10:00 am and she told me if they were expelled and the students were on the premises, they would receive state funding for that student. As you watch the slide place your mouse over the slide and a description of the slide will appear.
Now we all know that our students were angels?
Enjoy,
Julie Ferriera Passanisi
Class of 1968
San Leandro High School
Update on the statis of our SLHS - New 9th Grade Campus
School Board Names Ninth Grade Campus After Fred Korematsu
In a unanimous decision, the San Leandro School Board
named the new ninth grade campus after Fred Korematsu
at its meeting on December 15, 2009. The decision came after
consideration of seven names was reduced to choices
between Freshman and Fred Korematsu. The official name
will be "San Leandro High School, Fred Korematsu Campus.
" The decision also came before Kathryn Korematsu
and Karen Korematsu, Fred Korematsu's wife and daughter,
respectively made it to the meeting and addressed
the Board. The Board also approved the first interim
budget and elected new officers. Mike Katz-Lacabe will
serve as President, Lisa Hague will serve as Vice President,
and Hermy Almonte will serve as Clerk.
(reference from San Leandro Bytes)
Name San Leandro school after Fred Korematsu
Wed, 10/28/2009 - 15:41
Dear Friends, Fred Korematsu was arrested in San Leandro,
California, in 1942, for simply being of Japanese ancestry
and refusing to obey the military orders to report to
internment camps for Japanese-Americans for the
duration of the war. Sixty-seven years later, the
San Leandro School Board is taking nominations
for the naming of a new school, the new 9th grade
campus for San Leandro High School. Many persons
in San Leandro, including myself, believe the school
should be named after Korematsu.. I have been in
communication with Karen Korematsu and this
effort has the support of the Korematsu family.
Korematsu was a true hero of the civil rights movement.
While he lost his case in 1944, the reasoning of the
dissenting justices in the opinion twenty years later
became the majority view on the Supreme Court and
was cited in one landmark civil rights case after another.
In 1998, President Bill Clinton awarded Korematsu the
Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor
in the United States, saying, "In the long history of our
country's constant search for justice, some names of
ordinary citizens stand for millions of souls.
Plessy, Brown, Parks . . . to that distinguished list,
today we add the name of Fred Korematsu."
Naming the 9th grade campus after Korematsu
provides the opportunity to inspire students of
today and tomorrow to achieve educational success
and become active participants in our democracy. It will
show that we admire the determination Korematsu in
standing up for his rights and that of all Americans
to not be deprived of their liberty simply because of
their race, ethnicity or national origin.
(reference from APAP – Asian Pacific Americans)
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