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Spring 2003: "Access Denied: Should Youth Access to the Internet be Restricted?"
Participants
Triumph High School - Cheyenne, WY
Class: Current Issues
Our class is based on the Online Youth Summit Topic. This quarter
our class will focus on the First Amendment and censorship. We
are currently spending time reading the book Fahrenheit 451.
We are eager about the class and feel that this is a good way
for students to express their views and opinions on issues that
affect our everyday lives.
At Triumph HS, an alternative high school, there are six different
programs that are provided through the school to help the students
graduate and prepare for their entry into society. They are a
regular high school program, a Community-Based Occupational Education
program (CBOE), Students Taking Responsible Attitude Toward Education
program (STRATE), an eight-grade transition program, an Open Entry-Open
Exit (OE/OE), and the New Dawn program.
We currently have 322 students enrolled.
Some Facts about our city:
- We have the largest outdoor rodeo in the world, Cheyenne Frontier
Days.
- We have approximately 56,000 people in our city.
- We were the first state in the U.S. to let women vote.
- We were the first to have a National Park, National Monument,
as well as a National Forest.
Facts about our school:
- Opened in the fall of 1976 as an alternative High school
- Teacher-student ratio is 1-13
- 58% of the teaching staff holds a Masters Degree or higher
- 17 full time teachers, 4 part time teachers
Ethnic Distribution
- White-65%
- Hispanic-27%
- Asian-1%
- American Indian/Alaskan Native-2%
- African American-5%
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