Staff Editorial: Earthquake preparedness needs more attention
Costa’s administration must quickly and efficiently implement changes to improve Costa’s preparedness in case of a quake. […]
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Staff Editorial: Mira Costa’s technology requires major overhaul
As new technologies and social media have put access to information into the hands of more students in recent years, the state of most technology at Mira Costa remains painfully outdated. […]
Staff Editorial: Despite some changes, Mira Costa’s commitment form policy needs more extensive revisions
Mira Costa’s current commitment form policy for Advanced Placement and honors classes forces students to make decisions about their high school careers with limited information. […]
Staff Ed: MBUSD needs to establish a more accommodating and convenient calendar for all of its students
With winter break behind us and the new year in full swing, it is time for the Manhattan Beach Unified School District to make a change. The current MBUSD calendar is not practical with regard to testing and does not sufficiently allow students to participate in summer programs. […]
Staff Editorial: Students currently lack legitimate channels to voice their opinions on major MCHS decision-making
Mira Costa’s administration has made too many important decisions without first adequately consulting the students on campus. With an open-minded pair of new administrators in Dale and Matthews and a willing and opinionated student body, Mira Costa can take a major step in the right direction. […]
Staff Editorial: Mira Costa can attain more school spirit, but the student body needs to work together to achieve it
School spirit is a difficult presence to quantify but easy to sense. It isn’t foreign to Costa’s campus, but it has been increasingly hard to come by in recent years. […]
Evaluation system needs adjustment
In the last two years, The Los Angeles Times has published a series of articles describing some of the difficulties school districts face with upholding the quality of teaching. The most recent installment in this series discussed modifying the Los Angeles Unified School District’s current system of evaluating teachers to include a “value-added” approach. […]
Staff Editorial: New AP/Honors commitment policy takes crackdown a step too far
Mira Costa’s recently established AP policy policy infringes upon a student’s ability to learn effectively and unfairly requires students to make crucial academic decisions about their future based on little information. […]
Staff Editorial: Administrators need to involve students before making changes
Change is inevitable, but should always be done thoughtfully. Mira Costa administrators need to consider student opinion more seriously when implementing change. […]
Staff Editorial: Special education currently gets unfair criticism for our budgets
California’s state budget has been slashed beyond recovery by a combination of economic disaster and legislative failure. In the midst of this crisis, special education receives too much blame for California’s shrinking education budget. […]