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John Muir High School
John Muir High School is a four-year comprehensive secondary school in Pasadena, California, United States and is a part of the Pasadena Unified School District. The school is named after preservationist John Muir.
In 1926, the Pasadena Unified School District constructed a second high school in the northwest corner of the city. The school was named John Muir Technical High School and though majority White, it served a growing community of Black, Japanese-American, and Mexican-American students. In 1938, the school was converted into a junior college and renamed Pasadena Junior College West. It closed during WW2 and was used by the US Army as a Training School.
Muir re-opened as John Muir Junior College in 1947. The school combined the last two years of high school with a full junior college curriculum. In the fall semester of 1954, the school changed again to its present John Muir High School, a full four-year high school.
Before 1964, many White students from the community of La Cañada Flintridge, California joined those from the Black neighborhood of northwest Pasadena and the racially mixed community of Altadena, and enrollment was nearly 3,000 students. In 1963, La Cañada Flintridge built its own high school and removed its students, except for those who would graduate in 1964. Shortly after that, the Pasadena City School District created Blair High School, siphoning off another large portion of the school's population.
In 2000, a teacher, Cyrus Javaheri, pleaded guilty to engaging in group sex with minors. The teacher lured two students from the school in addition to another minor through the internet. Furthermore, numerous instances of cyber sex were conducted between the teacher and various minors as young as 12.
In 2002, Caucasian teacher Scott Phelps was the center of controversy when he said that the majority of the students who were failing and disruptive were black.
But overwhelmingly, the students whose behavior makes the hallways deafening, who yell out for the teacher and demand immediate attention in class, who cannot seem to stop chatting and are fascinated by each other and relationships but not with academics, in short, whose behavior saps the strength and energy of us that are at the front lines, are African American.
Opinion was divisive with whites and blacks from the community on both sides. While some students and teachers defended his assertion that the majority of the underperforming students were black was accurate, others took offense to it. Subsequently, he was placed on administrative leave but allowed to return to the school a few days later. In 2005, Phelps was elected to a four-year term on Pasadena Unified School District Board of Trustees, where he remains as of 2018. In 2022, as the PUSD election season started, Phelps says that he “doesn’t want to seek re-election”
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John Muir High School
John Muir High School is a four-year comprehensive secondary school in Pasadena, California, United States and is a part of the Pasadena Unified School District. The school is named after preservationist John Muir.
In 1926, the Pasadena Unified School District constructed a second high school in the northwest corner of the city. The school was named John Muir Technical High School and though majority White, it served a growing community of Black, Japanese-American, and Mexican-American students. In 1938, the school was converted into a junior college and renamed Pasadena Junior College West. It closed during WW2 and was used by the US Army as a Training School.
Muir re-opened as John Muir Junior College in 1947. The school combined the last two years of high school with a full junior college curriculum. In the fall semester of 1954, the school changed again to its present John Muir High School, a full four-year high school.
Before 1964, many White students from the community of La Cañada Flintridge, California joined those from the Black neighborhood of northwest Pasadena and the racially mixed community of Altadena, and enrollment was nearly 3,000 students. In 1963, La Cañada Flintridge built its own high school and removed its students, except for those who would graduate in 1964. Shortly after that, the Pasadena City School District created Blair High School, siphoning off another large portion of the school's population.
In 2000, a teacher, Cyrus Javaheri, pleaded guilty to engaging in group sex with minors. The teacher lured two students from the school in addition to another minor through the internet. Furthermore, numerous instances of cyber sex were conducted between the teacher and various minors as young as 12.
In 2002, Caucasian teacher Scott Phelps was the center of controversy when he said that the majority of the students who were failing and disruptive were black.
But overwhelmingly, the students whose behavior makes the hallways deafening, who yell out for the teacher and demand immediate attention in class, who cannot seem to stop chatting and are fascinated by each other and relationships but not with academics, in short, whose behavior saps the strength and energy of us that are at the front lines, are African American.
Opinion was divisive with whites and blacks from the community on both sides. While some students and teachers defended his assertion that the majority of the underperforming students were black was accurate, others took offense to it. Subsequently, he was placed on administrative leave but allowed to return to the school a few days later. In 2005, Phelps was elected to a four-year term on Pasadena Unified School District Board of Trustees, where he remains as of 2018. In 2022, as the PUSD election season started, Phelps says that he “doesn’t want to seek re-election”