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Article Excerpt
Sallene Leang, 14, loves basketball, writes music and dreams of being an engineer, a judge, a lawyer or a businesswoman.
Big dreams. And if Mildred Phillips has her way, Sallene's dreams--and those of other San Diego teens--will be turned into reality.
Phillips is the principal of the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical High School, a college prep school on the San Diego Mesa College campus scheduled to open Sept. 7.
What makes the Met special, said Phillips, is its focus on the individual student, preparing each one not only for college, but for the workplace as well.
The classes are small, from 15 to 17 students, and instead of the conventional teachers, the students learn from a combination of California teacher-certified advisers, workplace mentors and parents, who are encouraged to participate.
Starting Small
The Met will start out with about 70 ninth-graders, Phillips explained, and every year a grade will be added, ending with a ninth-through 12th-grade program.
"We will never have more than 150 maximum for those grades," she said. "We believe in educating one child at a time."
Part of the San Diego Unified School District, the new Met will be the first one of its kind in Southern California, based on a model established in Providence, R.I., in 1996.
Founded by the Big Picture Co., the Met has attracted such patrons as the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation, which has helped fund schools in Oakland, El Dorado and Federal Way, Wash. In September 2003, seven more schools based on the Met design opened in Detroit, Sacramento, Denver, Chicago and Bangor, Ireland. One is planned for Santa Monica in 2005.
The students will be expected to meet all of the district's academic...
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