Greater Gentilly High School was a high school in Gentilly, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The Recovery School District (RSD) was the administer of the school.[1]
The school opened in August 2009. It moved into a $39 million campus with capacity for 800 students; it was one of the first built as part of the RSD's $1.8 billion post-Hurricane Katrina facility overhaul. As of January 2011 the school had about 250 students. Around that time, the University of New Orleans charter school network launched a takeover attempt. Paul Vallas, CEO of the Recovery School District, argued that the takeover was necessary since the school was so small.[1]
In July 2011, the school merged with Thurgood Marshall Early College High School to become Lake Area New Tech Early College High School.
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The oldest of four children I felt lost as I fell asleep each night in the abandoned building my family called home in the Desire Project. As my brothers and sisters lost faith in me I lost hope in myself. Every time I tried to be the leader and man that I thought I could be things got worse. Before I knew it I was in middle school doing drugs and carrying a hand gun and couldn’t even read or write. I asked myself, who is going to be there for my family. Am I meant to be nobody? Then my grandma took my hand and prayed. She told me I had a chance. I could be someone. I wasn’t ready yet though. August 29, 2005 Katrina changed my life. In Houston I found myself walking in the same steps but then my 5th grade teacher in Houston stepped in. Mr. Burton, Miss Bliss, Ms. Cummings, and Mr. O told me that I can be someone. I returned home to New Orleans and found myself walking back to my old lifestyle. On Canal Street a lady stopped me who I didn’t recognize “Child, you are going through a lot of things. You need to change or you’re going to die. You will be like your Uncle who is on drugs, your Uncle who is stealing, your grand mother and father are good people, and they want to see you make a change.” Shocked and confused I remember my dad trying to help me read in Houston. I had cursed him out and walked away. I didn’t understand then and suddenly it all made sense. It was then that I had decided to change. I stopped being with the girls. Selling and hanging out with my old friends. They started calling me stupid and fake and picking fights with me. I started going to school and teaching myself how to read and write. I was a leader. I never thought someone older than me would say “I look up to you.” At Greater Gentilly High I am president of the Principal’s Advisory Committee. I want to take care of myself, my family, and others who have been where I have been where I have been in life. I want to be a pediatrician, so that I can heal the mental and physical wounds of every child.
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- ^ a b Chang, Cindy. "Parents and students at Greater Gentilly High School speak out against consolidation with UNO-run school." Times Picayune. Tuesday January 25, 2011. Retrieved on August 5, 2012.
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