School's Out Forever at SV High Tech High

theodp writes "Touted as a model of successful education by the likes of Bill Gates, Silicon Valley's High Tech High just held its first — and last — commencement ceremony, graduating only 21 students in its brief history. Despite the financial support of the world's richest man, the charter school cited money woes as it voted to shut its doors. Adding insult to the poor HTH kids' injury, the local public H.S. district plunked down $8.6M to snatch up their abandoned school and will turn it over to a brand new crop of kids in the fall."

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SV High?

[glimmy]

Did anyone else read that title and think Sweet Valley High?

I grauated from HTH

[pieisgood]

I actually graduated from HTH in 2006. A lot of what they say is pretty bogus. The school is very biased about its' students. They will help students with better grades and essentially leave the students with worse grades to the sharks. It's a sick system where they help those who don't need help and punish those who do need help. Bill gates did visit our school, he's a cool guy in person. The drag was, he visited with Oprah. Oprah was a fat bitch to every kid she hadn't been introduced to personally by our principle. Such a fat bitch.

Re:Not surprising

[CyberKnet]

What a wonderfully complete sample... there's no way anyone poke any holes in the conclusions you have reached based on that sample. Congratulations on the fine statistical analysis you have performed...

Yikes.