Hamilton High Expert Calls Out LAT Columnist Steve Lopez
A few weeks ago, LA Times city columnist Steve Lopez zeroed in on the topic of teacher layoffs at Alexander Hamilton High School, a Beverlywood neighborhood LAUSD school with two magnet components. Today, Big Journalism contributor Alexander Marlow bites back.
It definitely helped in this case that the school sits in Marlow’s boyhood backyard, thus allowing him to easily vet the contents of the March 16th column. His main beef is that Lopez painted too much of a one-sided, positive view of the school’s magnet programs:
Many of [my Music Magnet friends’] experiences didn’t resemble the mythical land of incredible teachers and students anxious to learn that Lopez describes.
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