Of the Fatal Effects of a bad Education

Born, raised and reside in Rochester, NY.
City and State school educated.
Currently employed as a digital Mechanical Artist.


East High School
class of 1993


May 2007 :: Wikipedia entry
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East High School was established in 1903 in Rochester, New York. It has since been housed in three buildings, the latest of which is located at 1801 East Main Street. The building was completed in 1963, and cost taxpayers almost $12 million.

Since 2003, Kathy Lamb has served as principal of the school, and has overseen many changes, including the re-addition of a junior high and the splitting of the school into "academies". She plans on resigning the position at the end of the 2007 school year.

The school is known for its violence and poor test scores, with the majority of students failing state exams. Often featured in area news is the violences which plagues the school.

The ethnic make up of the East High School is roughly 65% black, 25% hispanic, and 10% "other." There have been unceasing problems with discrimination and racism, particularly toward many of the minorities in the school (Asians, whites, and those of other ethnic backgrounds), that have created offensive, threatening, and even violent situations which have been on the whole, ineffectively addressed and poorly handled.

A chant known to any student who has graduated in recent years plays on the idea that East HS is known as an HIV/AIDS "bubble": "East! East! East! Do it! Do it! Do it!" The fact that the school is an actual HIV/AIDS "bubble" has been fervently denied by school administrators, and no evidence has suggested otherwise.

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