Mt. Pleasant High School (San Jose, California)

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Mt. Pleasant High School
Address
Mt. Pleasant High School (San Jose, California)
1750 South White Road

San Jose
,
California
95127

United States
Coordinates 37°20′46″N121°48′30″W / 37.3462°N 121.8082°W / 37.3462; -121.8082
Information
Type Public
Opened1964 [1]
School district East Side Union High School District
PrincipalMartha Guerrero
Teaching staff54.82 (FTE) [2]
Grades9-12
Number of students1,109 (2023–2024) [2]
Student to teacher ratio20.23 [2]
Color(s)Red and black    [3]
Athletics conference CIF Central Coast Section Blossom Valley Athletic League
MascotCardinal
Website mtpleasant.esuhsd.org/

Mt. Pleasant High School is a public high school located in the Alum Rock district of San Jose, California. It is a part of the East Side Union High School District

Contents

Steve Poizner

After selling his high-tech businesses, Steve Poizner worked at the school as a volunteer teacher, writing about it in Mount Pleasant: My Journey from Creating a Billion-Dollar Company to Teaching at a Struggling Public High School, a book released in April 2010. Poizner invoked hyperbole while describing the school, including exaggerating crime and graduation rates at the school and in the neighborhood. [4] Ira Glass and This American Life exposed the differences between Poizner's account and the true story of the school, with Glass calling the story "obviously and provably untrue." [5] [6] [7] Mt. Pleasant's high school principal, Teresa Marquez, cancelled Poizner's visit to the school, then Marquez and students protested the book at a book signing. [8] [9] The book reached the fifth position of the New York Times bestseller list, but that was possibly through altering of the sales data by ResultSource, a book marketing company. [5] [10] Ironically, the book title misspells the name of the school, as it is officially "Mt. Pleasant High School" and not "Mount Pleasant High School."

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. ↑ 50th homecoming, 25 Oct. 2014
  2. 1 2 3 "Mt. Pleasant High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved January 28, 2025.
  3. ↑ "CIF Directory" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on April 1, 2010. Retrieved May 5, 2010.
  4. ↑ Roberts, Jerry (April 8, 2010). "Capitol Letters: When it rains, it pours". Santa Barbara Independent . Retrieved May 5, 2010.
  5. 1 2 Malcolm Maclachlan (April 29, 2010). "Hundreds reportedly received unsolicited copies of Poizner memoir". Capitol Weekly. Archived from the original on May 4, 2010. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Shelve Under Fiction? Steve Poizner's Book Lambasted for Misjudging San Jose Neighborhood, School". LAist . Archived from the original on April 30, 2010. Retrieved May 5, 2010.
  7. ↑ "Public radio's Ira Glass calls Poizner book 'so obviously and probably untrue'". Los Angeles Times . April 26, 2010. Retrieved May 5, 2010.
  8. ↑ Saunders, Debra J. (April 8, 2010). "Republican volunteers at school - oh, the horrors". San Francisco Gate . Retrieved May 5, 2010.
  9. ↑ Greene, Jessica (April 2, 2010). "Outraged Protesters Confront Poizner at Book Signing". KNTV . Retrieved May 5, 2010.
  10. ↑ Scott Herhold; et al. (May 2, 2010). "Internal Affairs: The mysterious case of Poizner's best-selling book". The Mercury News . Retrieved March 17, 2014.


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