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Spring 2003: "Access Denied: Should Youth Access to the Internet be Restricted?"
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Miami Senior High School - Miami, FL
Class 1 of 2: Comprehensive Law Studies
Class 2 of 2: Court Procedures/Ethics
Miami Senior HS 1 is called Comprehensive Law Studies and is
composed of 10th graders, with a population of 31 students. Miami
Senior HS 2 is called Court Procedures/Ethics and is composed
of 11th graders and has 18 students. Our school population is
aproximately (high student mobility) 3300. 85% is Hispanic (Cuban,
Honduran, Nicaraguan, other), 10% African American, 4% Anglo,
and 1% "other."
We are situated at the fringe of urban Miami and suburban Miami.
We serve a lower to middle socio-economic community. We have several
"schools within a school" programs: Legal and Public Affairs Magnet,
Teaching Magnet, T.V. and Commercial Communication Accadamy, and
the Bilingual Accademy. We are the oldest high school in Miami
(at current location and building since 1928; 1st building back
to 1903). We are in our centennial year. We are four stories high
and from the street we look like a college campus fashioned as
an old Hispanic-Arab castle (parapets, circular windows, arch
ways, and heavy wooden doors).
Miami High has produced two US Representatives, two governors,
and a current US Senator (Robert Graham...we are waiting to see
if he will run for Pres. in 2004).
Our school has been placed on the "list of historical sites."
The city of Miami has a population of aproximately 1.5 million
(not counting the tourists) composed about the same way Miami
High is composed.
Our main industry is tourism (hotels, cruise lines, airlines),
shipping, light manufacturing, winter crops, flowers, movie production.
The students are not looking for a "silver bullet" to answer
the question of "what to do with controversal material influencing
inquisitive young people." They are in the Legal Magnet, and they
are mainly drawn to this program to see just how complicated it
can get. The students love to investigate, and debate, and cross
examine each other.
One of our Legal Magnet teachers was recently interviewed by
USA
Today.
Our web page is mhs.dadeschools.net.
Our school motto is, "Non Verbis Sed Operis."
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