<p>Hey everybody! It seems that a lot of people on here go to really amazing high schools (duh), especially since everybody that ever asks to be chanced inserts <"attends an extremely competitive high school"> or something, lol.</p>
<p>But, how many of you CC'ers don't attend the best schools out there? And does it ever get you down?</p>
<p>From my own experience, my school used to be really unmotivated. It seems like only a very, very few go on to "amazing" schools, while several people drop out. Although I haven't let this get in the way for me personally, it sometimes is even hard to organize club activities or things because of such low attendance.</p>
<p>My high school isn't the worst, but it lacks funds and students, so we don't have nearly as many clubs or classes as other schools nearby. Worst off are AP classes- we lack AP Econ, Gov, Human Relations, EnviroSci, French, CompSci, Latin, and Stat, among others. Honors classes are lacking too, especially among electives. We do have the occasional student who goes on to the Ivies, but unless you're in the top 2% of the class, you're going to a state school or community college, guaranteed.
Not the worst school, by any means, but not the best either.</p>
<p>My high school sucks. Actually, all schools in my district suck except one; that one is one of the top high schools in California. So we get pushed aside and the top school takes all of the funding. Lame teachers, bad rallies. Last year barely anyone got into good schools. </p>
<p>School cliques suck too; I am considered an "AP student" since I take AP classes and since most of the AP students hang out together. But I find them annoying, pretending they've done all sorts of things they haven't. So I usually hang out with the stoners.</p>
<p>Our clubs garner no attention and few members; the members who do join do nothing. Interact and Key Club are the biggest clubs, and they do nothing except one event each year.</p>
<p>ok, my school spends the least per student of any school district in the state, but we still manage to have sports teams go to districts (and even states) and the best musical in the area</p>
<p>we definitely lack in languages (only french, spanish, and esl) but we have the best ag. program in the state (yes im a hick) and just expanded our fcs stuff.........that should give you an idea of the types of students in my school</p>
<p>b/t actual AP classes (1) and classes through a local community college that will accept anyone and our teachers can teach in a program called CHS, we have a total of 5 above hs classes-2 hisotory (neither is ap), one math-you guessed it, calc AB, one science-chem, but it's a joke, and one gen ed health-no im not kidding, really-college health</p>
<p>we've had like not even two hands worth of ppl accepted to top schools, i've applied to one and everyone looks at me like im crazy, and the one guy that went to MIT is like a legend around here</p>
<p>this should give you an idea of "making the most of your resources"</p>
<p>My high school is very small, but it does ok for its size and limitations.
84 student grad class, 6 APs, 1 student to ivies ~ every three years, usually two or three people go to really good schools, five or six to the flagship, most go to state system branches, a lot of people don't go to college but there aren't that many dropouts.</p>
<p>It's not downright horrible, but definitely nothing that's very praiseworthy either. There are AP classes and whatnot, but eh, it's a decent public school.</p>
<p>I live in Idaho. I attend a public school, my school happens to be the oldest in the district. Very outdated. Bio books are from the 80s or 70s. Idaho schools are ranked 37th in the U.S. and they are going to cut 36 million from out budget! YAY for those of us who want to succeed. </p>
<p>Furthermore, I have more kids in my honors classes then they have in the non honors classes, this may sound like a good thing, but NO it is not. When you have trailer park kids who don't know what a heterotroph is, ya, they shouldn't be in an honor's program. </p>
<p>I hate my school. My counselor hasn't even seen me for college options yet.</p>
<p>Lets see, my school is k-12 600 students in an extremely poor district. I'm a white kid in an over half black school so I catch a fair amount of racism.</p>
<p>We have almost no funding, no APs or Honors classes. No student has ever went to a top 50 school. Almost all students go the local college LA Tech.</p>
<p>We have baseball, track, softball, and basketball. No other sports.</p>
<p>We have FCLA, FBLA, FFA and Home Ec Club. That's it.</p>
<p>We offer Spanish only. </p>
<p>We don't have any high level maths past Algebra 3 (pretty much Calculus) but no actual Calculus or Pre-Calculus class.</p>
<p>Somehow my GC has managed to let me go all the way halfway through my senior year before telling me I needed to take Civics and Free Enterprise to graduate.</p>
<p>We don't have a band.</p>
<p>We don't have cool classes. Basic English, American History, Art, Math etc. No frill classes.</p>
<p>We have sandwich line or hot line. No choice in what you get other than the entree. </p>
<p>No one goes to top schools. Almost EVERYONE goes to Minot State University, since it's like 3 blocks from our high school.</p>
<p>Last year, a girl got into Cal-Berkeley, and they mentioned her acceptance on the morning announcements. Unfortunately, she went to Minot State.</p>
<p>This year, a girl got into both UChicago and Madison, but she's headed off to Good 'ol Minot State.</p>
<p>The academics in my school are fine, but its just that students don't push themselves and branch out from everyone else. They all go to Minot State (nothing against MSU), and that doesn't really do anything to make the school 'shine'...</p>
<p>Oh Yeah. And we can't afford overhead projectors, so we use white boards and big pieces of paper taped to the walls.</p>
<p>*1 AP Class (English Lit) which is most likely going to be cut in the next few years. Those of us that do take it aren't given any weighting, so the class size is usually 4-7 students each year.
*No honors classes.
*~90-100 students per graduating class.
*French and Spanish as our only languages. They cut French this year, but thanks to a donation willed by a woman who died, we can keep the program for at least 2 more years.
*Cut over half the special ed teachers in the last year due to budget cuts
*Light fixtures that have fallen during one of our Chem classes onto a table of chemicals, spraying HCL and phosphoric acid everywhere.
*80%+ Community College matriculation rate. The remaining 20% head to in-state universities and super tiny LAC's.
*Students caught smoking pot in the bathroom regularly.</p>
<p>... and I live in a middle class neighborhood in rural Iowa. The silly thing is that the average SAT score in Iowa is an 1815 — higher than any other state. </p>
<p>Hooray for opportunities! -.-'</p>
<p>–Actually, 4 years ago we sent a girl to Harvard, and last year we sent 2 kids to Wharton, and 1 to WashU @ St. Louis. Maybe they felt bad for us :P</p>
<p>For instance, today in my 5th period class we watched a bootleg copy of "Taken" that a girl took from a book. The 3rd grade class brought in their library books the other day and the copy of the movie dropped out so we got it and watched it lol.</p>
<ul>
<li>4 APs, 4 DEs, NO Honors or IB</li>
<li>School needs new technology, and more of what we have</li>
<li>Basically Poor</li>
<li>Administration shows little interest in the students</li>
<li>83 in my Junior class, 90 in the Senior class</li>
<li>Ceilings leak EVERY YEAR, they still haven't resolved the problem</li>
<li>ONE hallway</li>
<li>Not enough variety in classes, students have almost no choices in what classes they take</li>
<li>Only languages are Japanese, Chinese, Latin, and Spanish; only Spanish IS NOT an online class</li>
<li>Our school is so poor...only 50/83 students can go on the Junior Trip, even with all the dues and fund raisers, we still don't have enough for two buses...</li>
<li>No interesting clubs; I had to make my own. .__.</li>
</ul>
<p>Not the...worst...but, then again, my INTERMEDIATE School:</p>
<ul>
<li>NO DOORS on the bathroom stalls</li>
<li>AC (from like...the 70's), FELL off the wall when someone touched it</li>
<li>Rooms are small and crowded, even though there aren't many students</li>
<li>Some classes have to be taken in airy TRAILERS outside of the school buildings</li>
<li>Kids have to walk through any weather because there are three separate buildings and no covered walkway
-Lockers are TINY</li>
<li>WORST principal ever. (We had a nice one when I was in 6th, then he moved up on the chain and is now an important school board official. The VP took over as principal...IMMEDIATELY, he added TONS of unfair rules and I swear, people got sent home for EVERYTHING)</li>
</ul>