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I Not Learn So Goodly
Charles Kinbote
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So check this shit. I live in New Mexico, second worst education in the country (yeah fuck you Mississippi), and I thought this may amuse some of you. Yeah, public schooling.
Earlier today, Spanish 3 and 4 were cancelled, as well as a few math, science and other such classes, leading to a total of 450 students somehow being displaced out of a class. The Spanish students were encouraged to take the same level of Spanish, except the "For Native Speakers" version. This is in New Mexico. The difference between the Native Spanish Speakers and the non-NSS is that the NSS don't speak English.
Our school has recently been supporting something called E2020. This is essentially a program in which students take classes on the computer. There is a significant difference; for example, your essays and written components are not actually checked for anything but quantity, and you are required to retake tests until you pass. This has lead to up to 20 retakes among the less bright of our school.
Our principal is pressuring our single qualified AP Government teacher to drop her five classes and become the Dean of Students. He intends for every single AP and regular Gov't teacher to take AP classes in the E2020 system, on the idea that, apparently, this would adequately prepare us for college and the AP tests. We're talking a class where you're not graded on the content of the work, but simply for doing the work.
We have had 9 principals in the past 12 years. Last year, for the second semester, we didn't have any principal. The college counselors don't know our names and are never in. If you are at all tardy to any class, the doors are locked and you are sent to In-School Suspension for the remainder of the school day.
If you dropped a class and didn't inform the teacher of the class (and trust me, they didn't tell us we needed to), you were counted absent every day. Most kids dropped classes because their schedule was insane and didn't allow them to graduates. Thus, many kids, including myself, have 40 or 50 absences, and dozens of truancy officers have been dispatched to the parents of the students to do god knows what.
Our dropout rate is hovering around 60%. Of our class of about 300-350, I believe maybe 80 are college-bound, and out of those 80 maybe 20 or 25 are headed out of state. That doesn't sound like a big deal, but unless you're planning on studying viral pathology or something relating to crime, going to school here is not the best thing.
Last year, we had three bomb threats, one of which turned out to be real, there was a shooting down the street, there were numerous lockdowns as a result of gang activity (the WSL13 and south-siders don't get along so well). In total, we missed about 35 hours of schooling due to violent or threatening situations. When the gang violence started getting bad, the school's response was, quite naturally, to build a chainlink fence around our five acres of property. No one is quite sure how this affects anything.
Security guards keep us in our lunch area. If you are persistent in asking to be let out, they will put you in cuffs and cart you off to the administrative building for suspension. Today, a diabetic friend of mine forgot her bag in the main building, which included her lunch, her insulin and her blood sugar monitor. She was apparently a little too persistent in asking for the right to continue living, and was put in cuffs and taken to the building. Thankfully, her mother is a teacher and happened to spot her panicking daughter being arrested.
Last tuesday, our district needed 13 subs. We got 3. Our district's superintendent was one; she spent the entire art class talking to the students and asking them what they did not like about the school. In response to their complaints, she fired one teacher and shut down three classes because the students "didn't like it". The teachers who are philanthropic or insane enough to put up with this nonsense got essentially insulted recently; the cost of living went up by a degree of tens or hundreds of dollars since this time last year. Every single teacher got a $.40 raise. That's not hourly, or daily. That's annually. Teachers get $.40 more a year as of last Monday. Woo.
TL;DR: The higher rungs of both students and teacher agree that the school is on a severe downward path, and one way or another something needs to happen. Most of us are just praying we can graduate before everything goes to shit. There are talks of strikes and walkouts - wouldn't be the first time.
So. How shitty is your school?
Earlier today, Spanish 3 and 4 were cancelled, as well as a few math, science and other such classes, leading to a total of 450 students somehow being displaced out of a class. The Spanish students were encouraged to take the same level of Spanish, except the "For Native Speakers" version. This is in New Mexico. The difference between the Native Spanish Speakers and the non-NSS is that the NSS don't speak English.
Our school has recently been supporting something called E2020. This is essentially a program in which students take classes on the computer. There is a significant difference; for example, your essays and written components are not actually checked for anything but quantity, and you are required to retake tests until you pass. This has lead to up to 20 retakes among the less bright of our school.
Our principal is pressuring our single qualified AP Government teacher to drop her five classes and become the Dean of Students. He intends for every single AP and regular Gov't teacher to take AP classes in the E2020 system, on the idea that, apparently, this would adequately prepare us for college and the AP tests. We're talking a class where you're not graded on the content of the work, but simply for doing the work.
We have had 9 principals in the past 12 years. Last year, for the second semester, we didn't have any principal. The college counselors don't know our names and are never in. If you are at all tardy to any class, the doors are locked and you are sent to In-School Suspension for the remainder of the school day.
If you dropped a class and didn't inform the teacher of the class (and trust me, they didn't tell us we needed to), you were counted absent every day. Most kids dropped classes because their schedule was insane and didn't allow them to graduates. Thus, many kids, including myself, have 40 or 50 absences, and dozens of truancy officers have been dispatched to the parents of the students to do god knows what.
Our dropout rate is hovering around 60%. Of our class of about 300-350, I believe maybe 80 are college-bound, and out of those 80 maybe 20 or 25 are headed out of state. That doesn't sound like a big deal, but unless you're planning on studying viral pathology or something relating to crime, going to school here is not the best thing.
Last year, we had three bomb threats, one of which turned out to be real, there was a shooting down the street, there were numerous lockdowns as a result of gang activity (the WSL13 and south-siders don't get along so well). In total, we missed about 35 hours of schooling due to violent or threatening situations. When the gang violence started getting bad, the school's response was, quite naturally, to build a chainlink fence around our five acres of property. No one is quite sure how this affects anything.
Security guards keep us in our lunch area. If you are persistent in asking to be let out, they will put you in cuffs and cart you off to the administrative building for suspension. Today, a diabetic friend of mine forgot her bag in the main building, which included her lunch, her insulin and her blood sugar monitor. She was apparently a little too persistent in asking for the right to continue living, and was put in cuffs and taken to the building. Thankfully, her mother is a teacher and happened to spot her panicking daughter being arrested.
Last tuesday, our district needed 13 subs. We got 3. Our district's superintendent was one; she spent the entire art class talking to the students and asking them what they did not like about the school. In response to their complaints, she fired one teacher and shut down three classes because the students "didn't like it". The teachers who are philanthropic or insane enough to put up with this nonsense got essentially insulted recently; the cost of living went up by a degree of tens or hundreds of dollars since this time last year. Every single teacher got a $.40 raise. That's not hourly, or daily. That's annually. Teachers get $.40 more a year as of last Monday. Woo.
TL;DR: The higher rungs of both students and teacher agree that the school is on a severe downward path, and one way or another something needs to happen. Most of us are just praying we can graduate before everything goes to shit. There are talks of strikes and walkouts - wouldn't be the first time.
So. How shitty is your school?
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edit: seriously though i would not like to go to that school
my schools weren't so bad
though with every state change the kids seemed to get dumber
in virginia i learned a ton
the years in california were everyone else learning what i already had
the years in utah were just them learning what i had now studied 2x and they had no clue
i don't go there anymore
taking this online home school thing for 1 year
there.
All we have is 2000 kids in a building meant for 800 and an outrageous number of kids that can't read.
Then they asked me to rebuild it.
Education of the year 2020.
Apparently in the year 2020 everyone is doing credit recovery or something.
If this is what happens in New Mexico, and they are the second worst, what the fuck is going on in Mississippi?
but we suck at football
I just got back from watching a game we lost 67-0
it would have been higher, but we forfeited before it was over
we gave up 37 points in the first quarter
two of the other team's first three plays scored touchdowns
we had a course that teachers who didn't know what they were doing loved to use called Plato
it was a lot like what you described
it was intended so that you could retake it over and over, and the lessons were long, and repeated themselves often as to take up time
anyone who actually knew the course (and some cheaters) just hit 'Next' 600 times and took the 10 question test (or took the answers from someone else)
Mine wasnt nearly that bad (florida), though most of us higher level kids coasted through with next to no challenges
My only experience with the New Mexico school system was going to Logan, NM k-12 school for 6 months (parents seprated, mom's parents live out there). It wasnt that bad, kinda cool since they had exactly 1 class for each grade, so a new kid was a godsend to them (really nice bunch of kids thinking back). They had this cool/annoying thing were you went to like 8 1/2 hours of class a day, but didnt go to school on fridays (except for when we needed to make a up a day for whatever reason). Thats right, every week was a three day weekend
Good times
There was maybe five dudes that weren't white or asian
Out of 2000, there are probably about a hundred white kids in my school.
100% grad rate and 85% go onto post-secondary education for my old school
and this was considered the worst out of the 3 public schools in the district
Out of 1400, probably 50-80 here.
Nothing, nothing at all has made me more racist than going to this school. It might sound terrible, but at this point I generally assume that hispanic kids in baggy clothes are idiots because I have in two years of attending this school never met one (and believe me there are plenty, probably 80% of the school) that wasn't a "y charlar like fohk I'm going to drop out and work at allsup's and shit man" type of guy.
Thanks to attending a predominantly hispanic school, I now just generally assume that white kids are smarter than hispanic kids in the environment of my school. Great.
like, I could name all of them at one point in time
I went to high school long ago so the stupid shit that went on there is long ago allthough I do want one person to pay with my unholy revenge
Santa Fe.
Let's not discriminate, now. It's all kids in baggy clothes that are idiots.
Yeah we have one.
or maybe, maybe a little Diaspora
no those are both terrible ideas
I can name all the asians that attend my school.
Orestes.
My school is sort of like that with Persians and Afghans and Pakistanis and Indians, but there's plenty of them that study and do well.
Wyoming in general really has a problem luring people to stay
it is wyoming
the second part's a joke of course
morals?
some dumb 49ers QB graduated from my highschool like 3 years before I did
care
When I came back from training I saw he had a child and a screw in brace holding his knee together
Very weird area. We were/are the worst of the high schools in Brevard County, but most people are trying to actively change that because we hate it.
Also, we had a principle and 3 other assistant principals fired over FCAT stuff. They were taking the "special ed" kids in 9th and 10th grade and listing them as 11th graders so their scores wouldnt negatively affect the school