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Articles from September 2020

Sun Valley is Home to Center for Enriched Studies

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Academic Excellence in Our Backyard

Sun Valley Jose Mier is very proud of our community. As you know we promote all aspects of Sun Valley California in one of those is in the field of education. If you’re not familiar with the Center for enriched studies you should be. It’s part of the Los Angeles unified school district and it’s made up of several different schools. One of those is the Valley oaks Center for enriched studies, or CES.

LA Magnet Schools Sun Valley Jose Mier
LA Magnet Schools website – including our SUn Valley school

Valley Oaks CES is located at 9171 Telfair Ave. in Sun Valley. It’s just a few blocks north east of the Fernangeles recreation Center.

You can find out more about the Centers for Enriched Studies on the Los Angeles megnet schools website, but these special schools cater to a diversity of Los Angeles area students who come from many different types of backgrounds. However each of the students possesses special abilities and these specials S\schools are set up to provide the appropriate learning environment for the students.

As the website states the Los Angeles Center For Enriched Studies provides challenging curricula and an environment which offers personal involvement by teachers as well as parents and students. The course is at these schools he’ll our Sun Valley students develop better academic abilities as well as talents in the arts and in the field of athletics.

We at Sun Valley Jose Mier are proud that we have a center for enriched studies right here in our own hometown.
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Sun Valley Youth Baseball

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Sun Valley Ca Youth Baseball

Youth Sports Important to Sun Valley Jose Mier

We at Sun Valley José Mier want to get the word out that Sun Valley is an attractive place to live and work. 99% of the time our are geared to the adult community and business people. But we can’t forget the part of our son Valley community, in fact the most important part, for the families that live here. And having family means children.

Sun Valley Ca Youth Baseball
Sun Valley Ca Youth Baseball

It’s important for a number of reasons children have an opportunity to participate in sports. They can gain important skills, social, athletic and otherwise. And basically they can just have fun. One of the sporting opportunities near Sun Valley is the East Valley Baseball League. There are seven different divisions in the league, each one geared to a specific age group. The earliest age allowed is three and four years old, but divisions go up to 16 years old just before student would enter high school. Each division has different rules specific to that age group. You can see the different divisions listed below:

The divisions are:

Spirit – ages 3 & 4. Straight T-Ball. One base at a time. Learning the basics.
Shetland – ages 5 & 6. Manuel Machine Pitch w/ Tee, if needed. 50′ bases;
Pinto – ages 7 & 8. Introduction to kid pitch (with limitations). 40′ mound and 60′ bases;
Mustang – ages 9 & 10. Metal cleats; Major league baseball rules (for kids, of course). Lead offs, dropped thrid strikes, infield fly rule. 46′ mound and 60′ bases.
Bronco – ages 11 & 12. Major league rules; 50′ mound and 70′ bases.
Pony – ages 13 & 14. 54′ mound and 80′ bases.
Colt/Palomino – ages 15 & 18. 60′ 6″ mound and 90′ bases. Get ready for High School.

Youth baseball is a great opportunity for kids to Learned something new, to show what they’re made of, and as we said to just have fun. The East Valley baseball league meet sit Strathern Park North in North Hollywood. You can get more details on their website. So to all the kids in Sun Valley, Sun Valley José Mier says, “Play ball!”

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Stonehurst Elementary Back to School (Sort Of)

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Sun Valley Jose Mier Addresses Distance Learning

As you know one of our cherished neighborhoods in Sun Valley is Stonehurst. We profiled the Stonehurst neighborhood on the Sun Valley Jose Mier website before and one of the key features of this neighborhood is Stonehurst Elementary school.

Stonehurst Elementary School website Sun Valley Jose Mier
Stonehurst Elementary School website profiled by Jose Mier

Stonehurst, like just about every other school in Los Angeles County has begun classes for the new school year. However, like those other schools these classes will be held online through zoom meetings.

It’s an unfortunate situation that our youth are prevented from learning physically in a classroom and must instead learn while sitting in front of their computer at home. We know this is kind of an err-on-the-side-of-caution approach and that community leaders as well as the state government feels it’s best and safer to keep students away from schools. This may or may not be a wise decision given that it seems very unlikely that young children will contract the coronavirus. But there are other concerns.

Anecdotal evidence has shown that it’s more difficult to keep children engaged when they have to sit in front of a computer screen at home rather than being in the classroom physically. Some may not even log on at all. It also causes problems for parents. What does a parent do if he or she has to go to work but his or her child or children must stay at home to attend school virtually? This is an extra hardship on parents who may either have to forgo working to be with their children or to try to find some solution such as having another family member watch the kids or hiring someone to do it. That latter option may not be feasible since families may not want to invite a so-called stranger into their house for fear of the spread of the coronavirus.

Regardless, schools such as Stonehurst elementary are forging ahead with their online class schedule. For those whose children are enrolled at Stonehurst you can view their schedule and all the online meetings and classes on their website.

Sun Valley Jose Mier does not have a solution for all the difficulties online learning may cause but we think it’s important to point these out for the purposes of discussion. If you have a child enrolled in a local school and are dealing with the same problems we’d love to hear any input from you and any possible solutions. And let’s hope and pray that we see a tapering off or an end to the coronavirus soon.

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