What would you change about your high school?

yoursky
Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:47:56 +0000

more APs
a bit more selective. we have a lot of not-so-smart people and i just feel like they’re making the college admissions game a bit more unfair (see below)
they raise the grades of the lower 50% of our class so that they will look like they at least get Bs and maybe a C in math if they’re that bad. Whereas the people in the top 25-50% now seem like there’s less of a difference between them and the bottom half of the class. And perhaps even more so for the top 25% itself.
many teachers need to be replaced
facilities need improvement
support for students overall needs improvement, both by the students (to a lesser degree) and by the faculty. there is a general feeling of mistrust with the students and obviously we won’t respond favorably when they give us these tedious forms to sign out (the purposes of them are ridiculous, let me just put it at that) and even more tedious processes to prevent a violation of school policies. it just seems like they want the students on a leash, which is not what high school is about.
unlike some people’s schools mentioned here, my school has more than enough in its budget to do most of this stuff i mentioned above, but for some reason, is not.


sigh. my rant of the day (: