<p>I would change the location/set-up. We share a campus with five other high schools, there's thousands of kids because there's six high schools on one campus. My own school has about 600 kids total, and it would be a lot less hectic if there weren't so many other kids.</p>
<p>But, California's budget can't handle that right now.</p>
<p>I agree with the budgets:/ I would alter the amount of people currently attending. There are about 2800 students at my school. Each class has over 30 people! My P.E. class had over 50! It’s ridiculous! I would prefer less students in my classes. Other than that though, I find my high school to be decent.</p>
<p>I think my school is pushing 2250 right now, but there are 6 grades. </p>
<p>I wish my school were a bit more selective. We have an IQ cut off of 108, but I don’t think it’s high enough. Even if we can’t raise that, more 7th graders should get kicked out. Or the school could just be 9-12.</p>
<p>I feel like some practices are really pedantic, so I wish we didn’t have those. I’m tired of being condescended to.</p>
<p>-Uniforms. The dumbasstic superintendent thought it was a great idea to make all the schools in my area wear uniforms in my sophomore year.</p>
<p>-The last renovation made was back in 1990. My school is simply dirty. Mold growing from the ceilings and the floors, lockers from the 80s falling apart (Seriously, I opened a locker to see someone had written something like 'Laura + Jacob 4 Ever. C/O ‘86.’), A/C and mold causing the desks to feel clammy. Ugh</p>
<p>-No school dances besides Prom</p>
<p>-Wish there were more classes to take</p>
<p>-Better teachers</p>
<p>rchhay, do students all go from one building to the next in between classes? Like have a class in high school A one period, B the next, and then C, and then B and then A or something like that? Or do all the students ONLY go to their home school all day?</p>
<p>I wish my school:</p>
<p>-Was more selective.
-Hadn’t fired so many teachers.
-Hadn’t changed Presidents…no one had a choice, though.
-Cared more about clubs in addition to sports.
-Had more AP class selections.</p>
<p>-The schools educations Standards were raised.
<p>Those are the only two things I really care about.</p>
<p>I would change everything. But that’s why I’m transferring…</p>
<p>I wish my school:</p>
<ul>
<li>Had more class choices, both AP’s and electives</li>
<li>Celebrate our Robotics Team a lot more (We’re one of the best in the nation, but some people don’t even know the team exist)</li>
<li>The graduation requirements would be 4 years of science, 4 years of math, 3 years of history, and 3 years of english, instead of 3 years of science, 3 years of math, 4 years of history, and 4 years of english</li>
<li>The guidance counselors were more accepting of students who are extremely ambitious</li>
</ul>
<p>^That’s too bad your school doesn’t offer that many AP classes. My school offers 27…haha, which means I have no excuse not to take them:/</p>
<ul>
<li>more APs</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>many teachers need to be replaced</li>
<li>facilities need improvement</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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. </li>
</ul>
<p>sigh. my rant of the day (:</p>
<p>I have a dream, that I would turn my high school into a private college for high school students (a more prestigious Simmon’s Rock). The only classes available would be advanced art classes, pre-AP, AP, and dual enrollment at our local CC and state u in block schedules. Gym would be mandatory before school in the form of JV and Varsity Sports. 50 community service hours would be required per year. And everyone would have to memorize the lines to Evangelion by graduation.</p>
<p>@yoursky: Wow…I feel bad for you about the inflation, that really sucks. That is ridiculous to do…</p>
<p>@Wartsandall: Well, we have 3 of the sciences (no Physics), only Calc AB and Stats for math, only 3 of the histories (USH, Euro, and US Gov), both english ones, and only two elective ones (Studio Art and Comp Sci AB). We have a lot of the language ones (Spanish, French, Chinese and Latin), but Chinese and Latin only exist if a person skips a level over the summer.</p>
<p>We probably have more than a few other schools, but there are some we don’t offer that I’d like to take, like Macro or Micro and Physics.</p>
<p>I wish my school was:</p>
<p>-destroyed</p>
<p>My school has less:
AP Gov, AP World History, APUSH, AP Calc, AP Enviro, AP Bio, AP English Lang, AP English Lit, AP Spanish</p>
<p>By the end of this year I will have taken all of them except environmental.</p>
<p>On another note, my favorite teacher did leave the school. Likely as a direct result of last year. I’m really upset. So I wish my school hadn’t gone and gotten rid of the tenure that a lot of the teachers had and that they hadn’t made them wait until the day before school ended to see who was fired and who wasn’t (so that they wouldn’t have had to look for new jobs) and that they hadn’t fired them at all. </p>
<p>I swear, no one is going to be happy this year. The President of the school won’t teach upperclassmen, last I heard, because he knows we’re all angry at him.</p>
<p>Decent amount of APs at my school:</p>
<p>APUSH, AP Euro, AP Physics B, AP Calc, AP Spanish,Chinese,Latin,French, AP Stat, AP Chem, AP Environ, AP Macro+Micro.</p>
<p>Way less than the 27 that Wartsandall has.</p>
<p>I wish my school had at least a minimal cutoff. But hey, that’s public schools for ya. Also, I wish they would actually maintain the school. It’s really dirty.</p>
<p>I wish my school had walls.</p>
<p>Open-classrooms suck when you’re taking a test. My focus is horrendous.</p>
<p>I wish my school had good relationships with top colleges such as the Ivys, MIT, etc, etc. My school’s reputation has plummeted recently, the top college someone went to this year was Cornell (and he worked his butt of to do so). It would be nice if my school had the Choate or Hopkins kind of prestige.</p>
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<p>Our high school used to be one big high school before it broke into six different high schools. As a result, each of the six high schools has their own main building, a couple of bungalows, and in some cases, one or two classrooms in another schools’ main building. The majority of the classes do not accept students from other schools unless they’re electives like music, journalism, or yearbook. Each school has their own art, language, and P.E. classes.</p>
<p>^^My school is like that, too. Someone went to Cornell. No one that I know of has gone to anything like Harvard, Yale, ect. Although there are some people in my class who could come very close. </p>
<p>My school has a good relationship with Sacred Heart University and that’s it. I hate the SHU admissions counselor. I think my school needs new universities to have a good relationship with. Not necessarily Ivy League. Just…different.</p>