#ihigh

[thefaultinourchickennuggets]

>be me

Ihigh af

>eating spicy goat cheese with crakers

>listening to sawbones

>how do these work?

>I never went there :(

[leyspin]

Been highs literally all sday but I’m out of wcodbles edibles rn. Still have my pen though so I’m still pretty ihigh might get drunk tonight!!

[wilted]

i’m trying to get ihigh and you popped my left one

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Dia 4 team with the atmosphere changed image text translation school; go [Mi ... https://en.imgtag.co.kr/issue/802858/?feed_id=2115471&_unique_id=6793460999671

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Education

Why San Diego Unified Is Closing iHigh to Middle and High Schoolers

District leaders point to performance metrics and cost for why they decided to shut down the virtual academy.

When iHigh Virtual Academy’s principal submitted her two weeks’ notice, San Diego Unified officials recognized they had a problem. It was the school’s fifth leadership change in three years.

“That’s a big red flag,” Fabiola Bagula, San Diego Unified’s deputy superintendent, said of the leadership turnover. So, she decided to pop the hood on iHigh and what she saw concerned her.  

More than 70 percent of students in the classes of 2024 and 2025 were not on track to graduate, according to district data. The district didn’t immediately provide data about how these rates compared to other schools. Bagula said iHigh’s students were also receiving an abnormally high number of failing grades compared to the rest of the district.  

But it wasn’t just student performance.  

The cost per pupil was nearly three times higher than the district average. Average per pupil spending is around $30,000 at iHigh, while the San Diego Unified’s overall average is around $11,500, according to the district.

All of this was compounded by what look to be impending budget cuts emanating from a decrease in funding from the May revise of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget.

“When I saw that resignation letter, I thought, ‘So we’re going to hire a new principal for this school system that’s going to have a 20 something percent graduation rate?’” Bagula said. “No. This is not a good, fiscally responsible decision or even supportive of students.”

On May 12, San Diego Unified announced it would be closing iHigh to students in grades 6-12. The virtual academy originally served students in an independent study capacity, but during the pandemic the district redesigned iHigh to be a regular school for families who wanted an online option. It offered synchronous instruction rather than self-paced coursework.

The announcement took many families and teachers by surprise.  

Last week, more than 40 parents and educators attended a virtual meeting of iHigh’s Site Governance team. The frustration at times reached a boiling anger. Attendees argued they weren’t consulted prior to the decision and despite being directly asked during the meeting, district officials only hinted at why they closed iHigh to middle and high schoolers.

“We sacrificed hours of our time away from our families, hours,” iHigh teacher Tiffany Cuellar said to San Diego Unified Senior Director of Instruction Jennifer Roberson, who attended the meeting. “We held the school up when the wings were falling off and there was no engine, and to just be thrown out like the trash … it’s really disheartening and so disappointing.”  

The district plans to still offer families an online option through a self-paced Edgenuity system that will be tied to school sites and based on what they see as a successful credit recovery program at Scripps Ranch and Hoover. But iHigh was more than just a credit recovery program, say some parents and staff, who are convinced Edgenuity is not the right model for their children.

The district chose not to close elementary levels of iHigh, Bagula said, because they didn’t have successful models to look to. “We just didn’t feel confident enough to say we have a different model,” Bagula said. “We don’t have data where I can say these children are not on track or on track to graduate, but in sixth grade through 12th grade, the data was there and quite frankly screaming.”

Bagula said she wants this redesign to be an iterative process, not something set in stone from the outset.  

“You try an idea, but you collect data to see if the idea works. And if it is not working, and you know, within three weeks or four weeks, then it’s not the right idea,” Bagula said.

Still, she said going forward she hopes to engage stakeholders in a more collaborative way when big decisions like this come up.  

But for Cuellar, a third-grade teacher at iHigh, even though the district didn’t decide to shut down the elementary school portion of the school, the closure still stings. She’s also worried that given the abruptness of this recent change, there’s no guarantee the district won’t cut the elementary side of iHigh in the future.

“Any other school site would not have been treated with this level of disrespect,” Cuellar said. “The teachers carried the Virtual Academy, and in a way saved San Diego Unified when they needed to be saved. They needed a program to help families and the teachers and the staff during this unprecedented global pandemic, and we were there.”  

iHigh saw a significant drop in enrollment from last year to this year, but Cuellar said that was something teachers expected. Staff knew the transition back to in-person learning was likely to mean fewer students at iHigh. But she does question Bagula’s assertion that the school had five leaders within three years. Multiple iHigh staff members said they don’t remember the school having that many leadership changes.

Cuellar also isn’t sure how the district determined iHigh was spending so much more per pupil. “I have to question that … How is it $20,000 more per student at virtual? I mean, the kids are at home,” she said.

Cuellar said she doesn’t have much insight into what the middle and high school levels of iHigh requested from the district, and what the district may have provided, but that she’d sent many emails begging for support that went unanswered.  

“The district did not offer support. They knew we needed help and they did not offer the support that we needed to be successful,” Cuellar said. “The teachers have worked so hard, and for the families who really needed the Virtual Academy, it’s been such a blessing.” *Reposted article from The VOSD by Jakob McWhinney on May 30, 2023

[ykashley]

it just occurred to me that mega64′s digital drugs bits are like.  incredibly similar to a kurt vonnegut short story, the euphio question, about a radio signal from space that when listened to makes you super fucking iHigh.  like everyone who comes into contact trips super hard and completely loses track of time.

the story is framed as a letter to federal regulators urging them not to let this signal be profited off of through euphio machines, which are essentially just radios that only pick up the signal.  and the dude who wants to profit off it is like “dont worry bro ill put a timer on it so that ppl dont lose track of all time and fucking starve to death”

literally just rocco going “if everyone could hear these drugs, there wouldnt be a care in the world man”

[djtommotomlinson]

I am BEHIND but im watching second season of love, victor and fucking hell man Victor and Rahim

[bakuraryxu]

i love going to this one cafe bc the baristas always call me darling or sweetheart and its just nice to be called that 

[goldenkoook]

the moment you start big spooning your pillows and realize you’re gonna die alone... i don’t have a conclusion for that sentence. but now all you guys know what i do in my free time

[radrobotz]

if u dunked filename2 in paint would you technically be able to see what he actually looks like

[urjwo]

loona music users

stllite / satellite

whnot / why noy

ihigh / hi high

fvorit /favOriTe

[turingdetested]

iHigh newest iphone vape included you suck through the speakers

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[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Decided to update Vincent and Catherine’s PQ2 edit (slightly bigger/higher quality that is) plus the different versions, daylight/regular, underwear, succubus/incubus, and high school versions (because I had two 6 hour bus rides and thus a lot of time on my hands to do it 8U). I just made Toby too, and I figured I might as well throw my previous Rin with him. I made the Erica/Eric edits last month when we saw her as a high school kid in the trailer and sklvjda thought I’d have fun. 8U

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Education

San Diego Unified Abruptly Closes Virtual School iHigh to Middle and High Schoolers

The district on Friday announced that iHigh, the virtual school that had swelled in size over the pandemic, would no longer serve students in grades 6-12 starting next year.

San Diego Unified on Friday announced via email that iHigh Virtual Academy, the district’s online school, would be closing middle and high schoolers. The abrupt notice, which came as the current school year is winding down and around three months before the start of the next school year, shocked both staff and parents of students enrolled.

“Students entering grades 6-12 will have the option to enroll in online, self-paced Edgenuity coursework at their neighborhood cluster school. Additionally, students will have opportunities to meet with a Cluster Learning Coach (district teacher) on a weekly basis for progress monitoring, test proctoring, and/or content support,” district officials wrote in an email to parents. “We realize this may cause uncertainty about placement for your student(s) for fall 2023.”

Officials wrote that students also have the option of returning to their neighborhood school for in-person instruction and that district staff will help with the transfer process.  

In the years prior to the pandemic, iHigh functioned primarily as an asynchronous independent study that served a couple dozen students. But when Covid led to widespread school closures, San Diego Unified poured resources into iHigh to provide students with live online classrooms and flexible instruction. In the 2021 – 2022 school year, enrollment swelled to 1,700 students.  

But this year enrollment shrunk to just under 650 students. Over half of iHigh’s current students are in grades 6-12. In an email, Maureen Magee, the district’s communications director, wrote that 562 students had enrolled in at iHigh for the next school year.

Shavoine Bradford, the mother of an incoming sixth grader who attended iHigh, said she was shocked. She serves on the site governance team and only learned of the closure was an email was sent out on Friday.

Several questions ran through her mind, she said.  

“Where is this coming from? Where’s the data to support that this is going to be the best move for our students? Where was the family input? The stakeholder input? There was none,” Bradford said. A short informational meeting the district held for parents over Zoom didn’t answer many of her questions.

Her next thought went to the district’s priority window for school choice applications, which closed more than six months before the announcement of iHigh’s closure. That meant her family had few choices other than to enroll her son for in-person instruction at their neighborhood school or for the self-paced independent study program.  

“My student has excelled so much in the past two years, both academically and socially, because there were some activities, like field trips, and community service opportunities, and they had some great teachers that really wanted to make it a special school,” she said.

Bradford said iHigh’s model was a good fit for families with unique needs. “To take that away with no input, no data … how can you just make this decision for so many families who really loved our unique school?” she said.

In an email, Magee wrote that the district is actually expanding access to online learning opportunities for middle and high schoolers, in large part because of iHigh’s success.

“Because of the flexibility it provides as a learning option for students and families who choose it, an online learning model will now be offered to every neighborhood cluster throughout the district for grades 6-12,” Magee wrote. “District and iHigh leaders have discussed the changes with iHigh staff and families and will continue to support families with the transition and enrollment into the neighborhood self-paced online program.”

This isn’t the first time stakeholders have felt shortchanged by how San Diego Unified has communicated big changes. A recent shakeup to the administrative makeup of the district that went virtually unacknowledged by officials also left parents and community members feeling “blindsided.”

But parents weren’t the only ones who felt left in the lurch. Nate Walker, a teacher at iHigh, said he and his colleagues were already looking forward to next year and trying to figure out ways to improve the model when he received an email notifying staff the district was closing down iHigh. He said his heart stopped. The abrupt decision made him feel like all the work they’d done didn’t matter.

Magee wrote that the district has not issued layoff notices to iHigh teachers, and that all current iHigh teachers will have positions in the district next year. But, like with parents of students, Walker said the timing of announcement left teachers with limited opportunities.

He also believes students will miss out on the community developed at iHigh, which includes an active associated student body and field trips. “They may not see these people again, and they certainly won’t be able to grow with them as students anymore,” Walker said. “That’s all been lost, that’s all been ripped away from them.” Both Walker and Bradford worry the self-paced independent study model taking High’s place won’t be right for all students.

But the worst part for Walker is how unilateral he feels this decision was. “No one asked a teacher or a parent about this change, it was just handed down suddenly,” Walker said. “They don’t want our input on what the future model will look like. They’ve made that very clear. And they don’t really care to ask us about some of the lessons we’ve learned along the way. It’s just really disheartening. It doesn’t make me feel proud of my school or my district.” *Reposted article from The VOSD by Jakob McWhinney on May 18, 2023

[idhruvjn]

What you see is diff, what I see is way more diff...for the world is a reflection of your own thoughts. #chalhimachalchal #mountains #brightasme #skyisblue #sky #prayforgood #trees #pine #clouds #winds #pahadi #iHigh #oyehoye (at Unknown Hill)