School Center is a public school of art and small preparation in Seattle, Washington and is part of the Seattle Public Schools. It's located in the Center House, a multi-purpose building at the base of the Seattle Center. Due to its unique placement, the School Center is affiliated with several local arts organizations, including Seattle Repertory Theater, KCTS, and Pacific Northwest Ballet.
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Extracurricular Organizations
Since its establishment, the School Center has continued to expand to accommodate the needs and motivations of students and teachers. Some organizations have sprung up with a big political focus. Especially the United Nations Model Club and SIPA (Students Who Inspire Political Activism). Such groups have focused on the problems facing schools, cities, and the international community. Other organizations include improvisation teams, craft clubs, annual book committees, and happy clubs.
MUN
The United Nations Model Program at the Central School has been active in local WASMUN conferences since the start of school, lastly in the spring of 2007 with about 50 delegates, mostly WASMUN participants. In 2005, 2006, and 2007, the club visited New York City for the MUN National High School conference, bringing a delegation of 39 students, over one seventh of the School Center population. For the first time in 2010, the School Center went to San Francisco and Berkeley for the conference. In 2011, the group will return to NHSMUN New York. The TCSMUN website is full of up-to-date and religiously updated information by its head and curator delegates. Two members of the NHSMUN Delegation School Center were hired as conference staff: Daetan Huck (2007) and Molly Williams (2009, 2010, 2011).
SIPA
The Student Activist Group of Inspiring Political Activists takes several projects when active, with membership varying from year to year. At one time, students stated that they believed that only sex education was not abstinent enough to prepare students to make safe sexual decisions. SIPA develops the curriculum during the school year and then presents it throughout the school.
In 2006, the group's agenda was to deal with achievement gaps and ongoing segregation and bias in the school district, partly aimed at educating staff members on racial issues from a student's perspective.
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Sports
The School Center has no official sports club or club, although it has access to the nearby Memorial Stadium for any sporting event.
Ultimate Frisbee
Students at the Center School can play for other high school sports teams and other extracurricular organizations in the Seattle School District until the policy of the Ultimate Players Association only allows students to play on their own High School Frisbee Team.
In early February 2006, the Frisbee team was formed. The team name was originally registered as the Mighty Fighting Kites, though this changed frequently until team members came up with the name The Mornin 'After, which became the team's official name. The name did not matter until the first semester of the 2006-2007 school year, when the principal, Brian Vance complained that the name had an inappropriate connotation. The team name was allowed to stand when Brian Vance left and the new principal, Lisa Escobar, came to school.
In Spring 2006, the team's first season, Center School is ranked 4th in the West Washington area, widely considered the strongest region in the United States for Ultimate Frisbee. Washington's West Region has produced the majority of the past national champions.
In Spring 2007, Mornin 'After being placed in position 5 in Division B high school in "Spring Reign", one of the biggest Frisbee tournaments in the US, 2 before the play-offs, and took first place in Division B playoff.
The team did not go to "Spring Reign" in 2010, but placed B high in the High School Division. Since then it broke up.
Controversy and criticism
The Center's School has been criticized in the book Jonathan Kozol Shame of the Nation , which details the conditions of education in the United States. Kozol presents the School Center as a symbol of the gap between races in education over the past few years.
In the book, Kozol explains how the Central School is structured to serve mostly white environments Queen Anne and Magnolia and draws parallels between white parents groups who petition for its formation and the group that filed a lawsuit prevented the Seattle School District from considering the race while placing students.
Kozol cites statistics showing differences among students who use the school when compared to data across districts. Eighty-three percent of students at the Center School in the first year of registration were white, compared with 40 percent in all districts; six percent of the population is black, while black students make up 25 percent of all District students.
Famous Alumni
- The electronica band that is now dead Brite Futures all attended the Center School.
References
External links
- The Seattle Times: School Guide for School Centers
- OSPI School Report Card 2014-15
- the Seattle Center school web page
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