When I attended Del Mar the music program was nonexistent and the focus on sports was disturbing when it was clear that many students involved in what few extra-curricular activities were offered seemed to be illiterate and innumerate. The best instructors I met there were Goytia for Honors English and Granger for Chemistry. Support for students with abusive family situations seemed to be nonexistent. Students who do well at Del Mar tend to be those who would do well in an independent study program, have educated and dedicated parents, etc. ....After six days of truancy, I met Dean Owen Hege who informed me that I would never be permitted to take AP or Honors courses at Del Mar because of my six consecutive truancies. My previous high school experience with a foster family had been good, and my GPA was decent. I had high hopes. I told the dean that if I wasn't permitted to take AP and honors courses I would have to enroll in the middle college program or take the proficiency and test out of high school. (There was a time when a half-way decent GPA from a school as notorious as Del Mar wouldn't get you into anything better than a CSU.). A Ms. Tovar ran the middle college program and would not entertain the idea of admitting me into the program, and Dean Hege told me I would not pass the proficiency, point blank. Obtuse, and almost diabolical, I cannot understand why some individuals choose to work with young people. I guess I can say that very little I was told at that school was correct. Of course I passed the proficiency, and eventually went to Davis. If I meet people from the Silicon Valley and mention under my breath "...Del Mar," eyes roll in sympathy. The place should change its name and start over.