St. Margaret's Episcopal School
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St. Margaret's Episcopal School is a K-12 college preparatory school with a history as rich and controversial as any European Dynasty. This website has been created as an attempt to document and organize SMES' colorful past. Feel free to contribute anything, so long as it won't cause a lawsuit.
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Early History
According to various speeches and unread books and articles, St. Margarets was founded in 1978 by Father Sillers. The first couple of years were rough indeed, with graduating class of no more than 10 or 15 students and virtually no text books or school equipment. The first 10 years of St. Margaret's might be compared to the current state of affairs at Junipero Serra High School, Sage Hill, or even CVCS, a school that does not believe in the theory of evolution. But through a combination of luck and skill the school would soon grow to the point of national notoriety. Much celebration came with the school's inclusion in Princeton Review's prestigous top 443 private schools in the United States book. Other high points including multiple CIF championships confirmed the school's importance.
Controversy
From the period of 1999-2003, St. Margarets was embroiled in countless controversies. The first, and perhaps the most significant was the decision to fire the school's popular principal Tim Quinn. In spite of vigorous protest from the student body, Steve Balak was soon announced as the replacement, a decision that would spark two years of discontent and turmoil at the school.
The administration of Steve Balak did not begin well. A few months into his term as Upper School Principal, a student, James Quinn, discovered an e-mail in a teachers in-box that would shake the foundation of the school. He printed the document, which divided the student body into three lists, Good Students, Grade Grubbers, and Lost Souls. This incident, which came to be known as The Lost Souls Incident would forever scar the Balak administration.
