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Theodore Roosevelt High School was a large public high school in the Bronx. Fully named ''Roosevelt High School'', apparently after the eminent Roosevelt family of New York, at its opening in November 1918, it was renamed ''Theodore Roosevelt High School'' soon after Theodore Roosevelt died in January 1919.〔 Conducted within the building of school PS 31,〔 the courses trained accounting and secretarial skills,〔 drew snowballing enrollment, and gained more classrooms elsewhere.〔 In 1928, entering its own building, newly built at 500 East Fordham Road, the Theodore Roosevelt High School became one of America's largest and best equipped high schools.〔 Sitting at the southern edge of Fordham University's campus and the northern edge of the Bronx's Belmont section, the high school's building became a community venue for politicians' speeches〔 and organizations' meetings.〔 The school colors were red and white, and the sports teams were the ''Rough Riders''—nickname of the cavalry unit led by Colonel Roosevelt before he became US President—though the mascot became a teddy bear. Its 1930s and 1940s students participated extracurricularly at roughly 50% or New York City's lowest rate.〔 Yet Roosevelt well performed its educational role,〔 preparing students for the basic workforce, the school's image enduring into the 1950s.〔 In the 1960s, other high schools' students earned diplomas via Roosevelt's night classes〔 and summer sessions〔 while drug culture's emergence dissolved ethnic hostilities whereby a local gang, the Baldies, mostly Italian, had diminished enrollment by blacks and Hispanics,〔Eric C Schneider, ''Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings: Youth Gangs in Postwar New York'' (Princeton & Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, 1999), (p 184 ).〕 who amid halting economic progress began drug selling,〔 common at Roosevelt by 1970,〔 although heroin use lowered gang violence.〔 Yet atop national stagflation,〔Amid economic ''stagnation''—floundering industry, rising unemployment, stalling pay raises—prices of commodities and products were rising, ''inflation''.〕 the 1970s brought New York City's financial crisis,〔US President Gerald Ford's administration denied New York City a bailout, whereupon the city's government faced shutdown until an insurance company made an emergency loan.〕 urban decay,〔Businesses typical of wholesome communities closed or moved, property value fell, and apartment buildings were burned and abandoned—their reputable landlords collected insurance money—or were sold to thrifty or, it seemed, miserly landlords.〕 soaring crime rates, and white flight.〔Composed mainly of American whites, including Jews, the gentrified classes fled.〕 The Bronx entered 1980 as urban decay's very portrait,〔〔 and its high schools became notorious as the city's worst,〔 while the crack epidemic struck,〔〔 socially devastating Roosevelt.〔 Children living in New York City's most criminal and violent area,〔〔〔 policed by the city's most corrupt and violent officers,〔〔〔 were zoned to Theodore Roosevelt High School, which had the city's highest dropout rate in 1984.〔Jane Perlez, ("City's schools seek solutions on dropouts" ), ''New York Times'', 28 Nov 1986.〕 In 1986, efforts began at Roosevelt to raise school attendance.〔 Yet improvement was negligible until a vigorous new principal, Thelma Baxter, hired in 1992, led an astonishing turnaround.〔〔〔 The revival was cut short by Baxter's 1999 promotion to superintendent of schools in central Harlem, whereupon the Bronx high school's deterioration rapidly resumed.〔Mark Coultan, ("Weak schools caned where winning counts" ), ''Sydney Morning Herald'', 15 Nov 2006: "And they don't just name aircraft carriers after their presidents. There's the Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School, and the Eleanor Roosevelt High School. However, the Theodore Roosevelt High School closed this year. But there's a story to that. Theodore Roosevelt High, in the south Bronx, opened in 1919 and as the area descended into drug-fuelled despair, so did the school. An energetic principal, Thelma Baxter, revived the school in the 1990s but after she was promoted the school went downhill again. Schools are reflective of society, and America loves winners. Losers? Nobody wants to know. In Australia, struggling schools get extra help; in America, it's the best schools that get the money. The worst are told to improve, or close. The principals and teachers find new jobs, and the children are found new schools. Often three new schools occupy the same building".〕 In 2001, the city's Department of Education, ordered by the state's, commanded the high school to begin shutdown.〔 In 2002, Roosevelt accepted its final freshman class,〔 which graduated at 3% in 2006,〔 whereupon Roosevelt closed.〔 New since 2002, several small public high schools now occupy the building,〔In February 2015, with completion expected for 2017, reconstruction began on the exterior of the building, affected by crumbling cement and falling bricks.〕 Theodore Roosevelt Educational Campus.〔Clara Hemphill, ("Theodore Roosevelt Educational Campus" ), ''Insideschools'', Mar 2012: *Belmont Preparatory High School *Bronx High School for Law and Community Service *Fordham High School for the Arts *Fordham Leadership Academy for Business and Technology *KAPPA International High School *West Bronx Academy for the Future〕 From the late 1930s to 1960s, at least five individuals later esteemed as celebrities—Hollywood actress June Allyson, baseball player Rocky Colavito, lead guitarist Ace Frehley, actor/screenwriter Chazz Palminteri, and comedian/actor Jimmy Walker—had attended the Theodore Roosevelt High School.〔 ==Origination: 1910s–20s== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Theodore Roosevelt High School (New York City)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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