LAUSD summer school a 'sorry' experience with limited offerings
Posted: 07/08/2013 08:57:48 PM PDT
Updated: 07/08/2013 10:06:28 PM PDT
Students and parents line up outside the Chatsworth high office Monday morning to try and register for summer school. Summer classes are offered only on a limited basis and kids are often left without the classes they need. (David Crane/Los Angeles Daily News)
Chatsworth High School administrative assistant Jamie Murray checks for openings in classes on Monday, July 8, 2013, as students try to register for summer school. (David Crane/Los Angeles Daily News)
"Sorry, algebra is full."
"Sorry, your name's not on the list."
"Sorry ..."
"Sorry ..."
"Sorry ..."
And so it went early Monday at Chatsworth High School, where a couple hundred students had lined up by 8 a.m. in hopes of securing one of a handful of open seats in Los Angeles Unified's bare-bones summer school program. One by one, they filed past the main counter, where administrative assistant Jamie Murray delivered the bad news that the class the student really needed was already closed. | MORE PHOTOS: Trying to get summer-school classes at Chatsworth High
"I honestly don't know what I'm going to do," said Tim Badger, 16, who had hoped to enroll in either geometry or chemistry this summer. "I guess I'll have to make them up during the school year."
With a budget of $1 million, the district is offering 10 classes in core subjects -- algebra and geometry, chemistry and biology, English and history -- at just 16 of its 100-plus high schools. All 5,100 seats were
