Public HS: Does yours value sports over academics?

Millancad
Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:22:57 +0000

Athletics don’t get too much attention. Our football team sucks. It went four years without winning a single game. A lot of money is spent on APs, science labs, that sort of thing. Our alumni kindly donate a lot of money (they paid for an entire arts and science wing 10 years ago) so academics are never neglected.

Counselors definitely mainly focus on top students. I remember for the first week of school, when all the kids want to come in to the counselor’s office and change their schedule, they had security guards block off the room to most. I walked up on the first day and a counselor came out, said I was one of their “stars” or whatever, escorted me in and changed my schedule within minutes to how I wanted it. Whenever I come into the office, the counselor immediately says “you wanted to see me?” while other kids have to schedule appointments and wait forever if they come in without one. I think it’s really unfair actually.