Mira Loma High School is a public high school located in Sacramento, California. It is a part of the San Juan Unified School District with a student body of approximately 1800 students.
Academics
Mira Loma is most noted for being an International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme school. In addition to the IB program, Mira Loma offers the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program for freshmen and sophomores, the International Studies Program for less academically oriented students, and the International Passport Program for students who speak English as a second language. The school also possesses one of the largest special education programs in the San Juan Unified School District.
The Mira Loma science department is especially strong and school teams regularly win the regional Science Olympiad and Science Bowl competitions. Mira Loma also sends several students each year to the International Science and Engineering Fair, the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium and the semi-finalist level of the Intel Science Talent Search. Recently in 2006, Mira Loma students gained recognition for the history department for their achievement in National History Day - they placed 3rd in the nationals.
Culture
As the variety of academic programs listed above indicates, Mira Loma is a school noted for its diversity. In early April Mira Loma celebrates its annual International Night, in which students from various ethnic backgrounds set up booths about their culture (typically offering some traditional food as well) and sometimes give performances of traditional dance or music.
Another Mira Loma tradition is the annual Sports-A-Rama in which the four classes compete against each other in a variety of games to win the competition. Games begin with Penny Wars several weeks in advance of the event itself and culminate in the event known as the statue wherein around fifty students perform a choreographed dance routine on the subject of the class's theme.
Day of Silence Controversy
Mira Loma has a large Gay-Straight Alliance club on campus that attracted local media attention during the 2006 Day of Silence. On April 26 around 30 Mira Loma students, along with an estimated 450,000 students nation-wide, voluntarily remained silent for the day to protest discrimination against the LGBT community. A group of students, organized by a local Slavic church, launched a counter-protest that day, handing out brouchures that argued that support for the Day of Silence undermined freedom of religion. Several students handing out fliers were subsequently suspended from school on grounds that they were spreading hate messages. Three after-school protests organized by the Slavic church were then held in front of the school from April 26 to April 28. Over one hundred demonstraters participated. Advocates for the Day of Silence quickly organized their own, albeit smaller, demonstration and later printed t-shirts in support of gay rights and condemning the actions taken by the protesters.
4 comments:
MLHS for life, baby!
Gay Straight Alliance is still going strong. I subbed for Mr. Lago the other day (he's the advisor) and they had a meeting. MLHS is still in good hands. Glenda
holla! M to the L!
amineh
And now you have an earthquake to add to your list of natural disasters experienced. Glenda
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