Photo courtesy of wikimedia.org By Payton Moffenbeier
Staff Writer The Lake Oswego schools combining together has been a possibility for years. Now that it has gone public there are lots of concerns about the school district and the students. A former student from Lakeridge High School, Alex Goldman, has addressed this issue very aggressively. Goldman is looking at this situation from a student's perspective and behalf of the Lake Oswego School District. There are various reasons to why the high schools combining would cause conflicts to the school district. Most importantly involving student's education. Nowadays students can create stronger relationships with teachers. With larger classes students will not be able to ask as many individual questions. Studies show that when school districts have larger classes the school districts will struggle for 10 years because classes are more successful when they are smaller. One of the reasons why the Lake Oswego School district is so successful is because our teachers and the size of our classes. The teachers would still be highly qualified, but they wouldn’t be able to connect with students as well as they are now. Goldman also addresses the problem of the amount of students who get to attend after school activities, or additional activities. For example sports teams would take the better half of the athletes from both sides and make them one team. Therefore half of the students would be left with nothing to do after school. High school sports are a part of the high school experience and it would be different without it for students. This change would affect the former Lakeridge students. Obviously the high school would be LO, that means that Lakeridge students would have to get up earlier and drive to school earlier. Parking however would be a struggle for students that drive to school. It would be packed! It would most likely be hard to find a parking spot a block from the school. Goldman says that he can hardly imagine the hallways. The hallways are already packed at both Lakeridge and LO. With twice as many students it would be a struggle to walk from class to class. Goldman has addressed many issues that would affect both students and the school district. There doesn’t seem to be any issues so why change a perfectly good school district? Comments are closed.
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