Mt. Diablo High in the Media

When doing some searching online for recent news regarding Mt. Diablo High and the surrounding community of Concord, we found various things.  Below we have linked some of the articles we found most interesting.  As you can see from the headlines alone, most of the news is not feel-good news.  Don't be mistaken, there are some really great things going on in Concord and at Mt. Diablo High.  But unfortunately, those things don't always make the headlines.

First we'll start you off with the articles relating to not-so-great events in the community:
Bomb Threat at Mt. Diablo High
Suspects Arrested for Armed Robberies in Concord
Concord Child Killed by Pit Bulls
Police Officer Accused of Molesting Concord Boy


And now for some of the more positive news stories surrounding the community:

Mt. Diablo High Students organize 'Teach-In' to Protest Furlough Day

Horizons Choir Sings to John Muir Patients
Mt. Diablo High Senior, 2nd Place in State Poetry Contest

Additionally, while we were searching, a site came up about Mt. Diablo High in general - giving basic statistics and district information.  The reason this is of interest is because Mt. Diablo High was listed as one of the 'Best High Schools' but then when you read through all the information, you come across the fact that it is not ranked nationally, and more importantly it does not meet the CA goal for Academic Performance.  This is a perfect example of mainstream media often being misleading.  The title and link to the page from Google made me think we'd be seeing some positive commendations of the High School, but that was not entirely the case.

Finally, I have one last point I'd like to make in regards to this topic.  We usually blame the media for poor or incomplete coverage of a topic or of a community.  We say it is their fault that places like Concord get bad reputations because all they tell us are the bad things that happen in Concord.  But what I'd like to propose is that even if the majority of news about a place was positive, and then somewhere along the line something tragic happened, people would remember that one tragic thing much longer than they would remember the fact that the community had a program for singing to the hospitalized.