Lincoln High School has had a rough track record of keeping good leaders in their school. Over the past decade, Lincoln High has lost five of their administrative leaders. On the last day of the 2018-19 School Year, Jose Soto-Ramos, along with three of the school’s vice principals, were removed from their positions.
Lincoln has had many struggles with their enrollment due to issues regarding safety and academics. Many locals surrounding the school had thought that with the $129 million campus upgrade there would have been an improvement with enrollment, staff, and the overall school experience.
The district leaders have not stuck by their word in fixing the school’s issues. However, part of the blame does fall on Lincoln High. They have not been attempting to better the school and have left it in the shambles that it has been in for awhile now.
Francine Maxwell, a parent and member of the community, has said that “Lincoln is a beast of a school with many problems. We need people with the will and the skill to lead it.” She went on to say that Soto-Ramos did not do what the school needed to be done and didn’t make the necessary changes, instead of sitting idly by.
Lincoln High School has one of the highest drop out rates in the San Diego Unified School District, average 11.1 percent compared to the district’s average of 3.6 percent.
Superintendent Cindy Marten has said that helping Lincoln improve was very important to her work as superintendent. Although the four people had been removed from the leadership roles at Lincoln High, they will still be eligible for teaching positions in the district next year.
There need to be better people to fill the positions at Lincoln High School to get the school on the path to achieving better education for its students. Once they begin to fix that, the attendance rates will improve, graduation rates will increase, and dropouts will decrease.
