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Mt. Pleasant High School (San Jose, California)

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| name = Mt. Pleasant High School

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| streetaddress = 1750 South White Road

| city = San Jose

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| state = California

| zipcode = 95127

| country = USA

| coordinates = {{Coord|37.3462|-121.8082|format=dms|type:edu_region:US-CA|display=inline,title}}

| type = Public

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| district = East Side Union High School District

| principal = Martha Guerrero

| grades = 9-12

| students = 1,109 (2023–2024){{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=0611820&SchoolPageNum=2&ID=061182001304|title=Mt. Pleasant High|publisher=National Center for Education Statistics|access-date=January 28, 2025}}

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| mascot = Cardinal

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| ratio = 20.23

| teaching_staff = 54.82 (FTE)

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| colors = Red and black {{color box|red}} {{color box|black}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.cifccs.org/Directory/Website%20directory%2009-10-Feb.pdf|title=CIF Directory|access-date=5 May 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100401044005/http://www.cifccs.org/Directory/Website%20directory%2009-10-Feb.pdf|archive-date=1 April 2010}}

| conference = CIF Central Coast Section Blossom Valley Athletic League

| opened = 196450th homecoming, 25 Oct. 2014

| homepage = [http://mtpleasant.esuhsd.org/ mtpleasant.esuhsd.org/]

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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

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.{{Cite news|url=http://independent.com/news/2010/apr/08/meg-millions/|title=Capitol Letters: When it rains, it pours|last=Roberts|first=Jerry|date=8 April 2010|work=Santa Barbara Independent|access-date=5 May 2010}} 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."{{Cite news|url=http://laist.com/2010/04/27/shelve_under_fiction_poizners_book.php|title=Shelve Under Fiction? Steve Poizner's Book Lambasted for Misjudging San Jose Neighborhood, School|work=LAist|access-date=5 May 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100430133059/http://laist.com/2010/04/27/shelve_under_fiction_poizners_book.php|archive-date=30 April 2010}}{{Cite news|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/04/ira-glass-steve-poizner-book-mount-pleasant.html|title=Public radio's Ira Glass calls Poizner book 'so obviously and probably untrue'|date=26 April 2010|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=5 May 2010}} 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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Republican-volunteers-at-school-oh-the-horrors-3193004.php|title=Republican volunteers at school - oh, the horrors|last=Saunders|first=Debra J.|work=San Francisco Gate|access-date=5 May 2010 | date=8 April 2010}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/politics/Upset-Crowd-Confronts-Poizner-at-Book-Signing-89768187.html|title=Outraged Protesters Confront Poizner at Book Signing|last=Greene|first=Jessica|date=2 April 2010|work=KNTV|access-date=5 May 2010}} 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.{{Cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100504020956/http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?xid=ysyfbxbaesxv63 |archive-date=4 May 2010 |url=http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?xid=ysyfbxbaesxv63 |date=29 April 2010 |title=Hundreds reportedly received unsolicited copies of Poizner memoir |author=Malcolm Maclachlan |work=Capitol Weekly |access-date=17 March 2014}}{{Cite news |url=http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_14993102 |title=Internal Affairs: The mysterious case of Poizner's best-selling book |author=Scott Herhold |display-authors=etal |date=2 May 2010 |newspaper=The Mercury News |access-date=17 March 2014}} 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

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External links

  • [http://www.greatschools.net/modperl/browse_school/ca/5458/ Mt. Pleasant High School profile] provided by greatschools.net (contains pop-ups)

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