by George J Elbaum
College Park High School has an enrollment of 2000 students of which 56% are minority and 26% are economically disadvantaged. Despite these demographics, it is far above California state average of college and career readiness, such as student test scores (English 74% vs. 51% CA average and Math 48% vs. 40% CA average) and 97% graduation rate. It is therefore rated 9/10 in college readiness and test scores by GreatSchools.org.
This presentation to College Park 10th-12th grade students, my 7th since 2019, was again organized by World History teacher Lauren Weaver, as she had done each year and in 2019. Her students have studied WWII and the Holocaust and were therefore aware of governmental persecution in Germany in the 1930s, including targeted boycotts, the Nuremberg Laws, planned stages of identification and separation in Ghettos, acts of violence such as Kiristallnacht, and eventual removal of Jews to concentration and death camps.
Arrangements for my talk at College Park were made by Lindsay Marcus, Education & Marketing Associate of the JFCS Holocaust Center.
