{"id":1996,"date":"2014-10-30T11:20:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T18:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2014-10-30T11:20:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T18:20:48","slug":"class-of-15-all-the-way-to-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/class-of-15-all-the-way-to-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of ’15: All the Way to May!"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Anais Salais<\/p>\n

\"Pueblo<\/a>
Back row: Julio Moreno, Destiny Felix, Leo Serrano, Hilario Ochoa, Joseph Ochoa. Front row: Catalina Flores, Julian Francisco, President Maria Louisa Vega, Sabrina Parra, Sierra Mejia, Esmeralda Salazar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The past 2013-14 school year experienced the lowest graduating class in the recent history of Pueblo Magnet High School, with only 197 students walking the night of graduation, May 22 (although another 23 graduated after attending summer school), according to Ms. Marina Ordonez, Pueblo\u2019s registrar.<\/p>\n

There are several factors why not all 283 seniors walked in May, but the biggest was students\u2019 lack of credits, she said.<\/p>\n

Another factor that held back seniors were AIMS scores. Of the 2013-14 seniors who still needed to pass math AIMS, only 17% actually did\u2014accounting for just 12 students.<\/p>\n

Despite the grim Class of 2014 graduation numbers, the statistic could have been even worse. Several dozens of students were able to graduate on time because of AIMS prep courses and through the CCLC program, which allowed many students to pass one or more portions of AIMS.<\/p>\n

This school year, CCLC is in full-force, Ms. Mary Wallace said. Also, math tutoring will continue this school year after school with various math teachers; Mr. Rashad Robinson will continue to tutor students on Saturdays to help those students who are struggling to pass math AIMS.<\/p>\n

To ensure that all 360 seniors graduate on May 21, 2015, some believe it will take more than just credit recovery classes and AIMS prep.<\/p>\n

Few students care as much about this year\u2019s graduation numbers as senior class president Maria Louisa Vega.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that last year\u2019s seniors may not have been as academically driven,\u201d Vega said. \u201cThe graduation number was small, but they were a small class to begin with at the beginning of their senior year. We [the class of 2015] are a larger class, and I feel that our class of 2015 is a more unified group [than the class of 2014] who really wants the best for each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vega is hopeful that this year\u2019s seniors will continue to motivate each other.<\/p>\n

\u201cI plan to be everyone\u2019s shoulder to lean on whenever they need help,\u201d said Vega. \u201cI just feel that if everyone has someone to help them along the way, we can make sure that our class remains united and, in the end, triumphant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wallace said, \u201cFirst and foremost, our [Pueblo] students need to step up. We also need to better educate the students and their parents on the importance of graduating and furthering their education.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Anais Salais The past 2013-14 school year experienced the lowest graduating class in the recent history of Pueblo Magnet High School, with only 197 students walking the night of graduation, May 22 (although another 23 graduated after attending summer school), according to Ms. Marina Ordonez, Pueblo\u2019s registrar. There are several factors why not all … Continue reading Class of ’15: All the Way to May!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,6,209,21],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pA2u4-wc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}