Maricamp

I wouldn’t recommend it. My daughter is being bullied, and unfortunately, the teachers either can’t or won’t step in to stop it.

This is only my second day at school with the new students and so far the principal is inconsiderate. They have so many rules yet they don’t post them anywhere and only certain people enforce them. They make you wait 15 minutes to get your kid from the pick up line in the boiling hot. They take 15 minutes to decide if they’re gonna let the walkers actually cross the street or let the buses go first. So the kids are sitting outside in the hot sun as well as the parents and the parents can’t even sit on the benches right in front of us because we are supposed to stand on the sidewalk waiting for them to get it together. They can do better.

I went to this school. The teachers themselves are good. However, the faculty (the dean, principal, councilor, and assistant principal were very iffy. First of all, my mother wanted to speak with the dean alone about something for my upcoming senior year. The dean agreed. My mother arrived there a few days later, and walked into the deans office to see both the principal and my math teacher in there. First of all the dean lied to my mom, and so that lost all of my mom’s respect for that school, including my respect for it as well. Next we have the councilor, who was constantly picking favorites and always had an attitude. She purposely bended an expensive hat only after the student had said it was expensive, just because she wanted to prove a point. The same woman was also getting with the assistant principal whom I will talk about next. The assistant principal also taught algebra 1, however he never showed up to class, at least when I had his class, and he also picked favorites. Now for the principal. He’s nice, but he’s too nice. He refuses to discipline anybody unless they were to do something where he was forced to put in action. And he again, picked favorites. There’s a trend going on here. Everybody’s picking favorites, and if you aren’t one of the favorites, you get the short end of the stick. Many of my classmates hardly did anything “wrong” in my opinion, and were still disarmed for either wearing a hoodie durring the winter (and when the heat wasn’t working but the principal had claimed that it was. It was 52 degrees in the science classroom. I ended up getting the flu partially because of that). All the teachers are fabulous. It’s the head faculty you have to watch out for.

Art teacher is not supportive of student work, our son reported many times that he made some artwork but the teacher(s) did not ever praise him. As a parent of a 7th grader, we have found the school has way too much reliance on computers/chromebooks. Also, in Spanish the students are often given lists to memorize, instead of integrating the information. There is little attention given to the most important aspect of a language: conversation. Surprised in the past three years at how the school uses tired traditional teaching methods, instead of more innovative and dynamic approaches. Will not have son return next year.