What's Going On in YOUR School? - Our Education Forum # 1
By Aaron Tang | Published  09/24/2006

Welcome!  This is the forum for general conversation about your schools.  What is your school like? What would you change about it?  What are the most pressing issues in your school today?  You can also use this forum to ask other students questions about their school to get ideas about how yours might be improved!

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  • Comment #1 (Posted by Jason Soucy)

    It's ridiculous. My school is considered one of the better public schools in south Georgia, but I still haven't figured out why.

    When I was in 11th grade, the school only had 3 AP classes out of 6 offered survive. I took two of them and did poorly on the AP exams because our teachers aren't really too qualified. Granted, there are a few good teachers, but schools shouldn't have simply A FEW.

    I was so stifled by this school that focused so much on athletics and making sure that students followed the rules that I actually left for college early. I joined an early-entrance program called The Advanced Academy of Georgia so I could finally feel like I was challenged. While it's a GREAT program, I think it should be there as an option for students and not necessarily as an escape because their high schools are too horrible.

     
  • Comment #2 (Posted by Alan Moore)

    LIke the previous student's school, my school is considered one of the better schools in the area, which is quite scary. Our test scores are extremely low, and we have very few advanced classes available. For the 2006-2007 year, only 3 AP classes will be offered in high school, with the same amount of honors classes.

    They're focused more on using money to have 5 different superintendents, rather than spending funds in the classroom. Being a small area with only one elementary, middle, and high school, so many superintendents are not necessary.

    It is apparent the administration of our school do not care about its appearance. Building are falling apart, classrooms are too small, and this creates a generally depressing environments for us as students.

    Our system, does however, have a great amount of technology for a school system our size. The problem is, most teachers do not use the technological tools available to them. Thousands, if not millions, of dollars worth of technology tools sit unused in classrooms and storage rooms in every school.


     
  • Comment #3 (Posted by Alex)

    I think my high school is a model of what this group is striving for: new building and great facilities, well educated teachers who care, millions of classes to choose from. As I make my way through my later years of high school i understand more and more what a gift my education has been, and increasingly wonder how it is that students in the awful schools that i have seen (on television etc.) even manage to graduate. I have all respect for those that do, and all sympathy for those who drop out because their schools are useless to them. I'm typically against big federal funding on local issues, but when it comes to education, i think no expense should be spared. My school is at the level it is because my town is wealthy and pours money into the school system, and i don't think that less wealthy towns should be restricted to having poor schools because of lack of funding. That will fix nothing.
     
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