Oakbrook

I am a graduate here at this school and I can say it was a rocky experience. I’m not the best when it comes to writing but what I will say is that the 8th grade teacher can be biased in some aspects when it comes to students, and that she just projects a lot of her problems onto her students. What I mean by this is that she puts her anger out on them (my old class) sometimes, which causes some tension or a shift of atmosphere in the room. Next, I will talk about the 6th grade teacher (who teacher math for 6th, 7th, and 8). The 6th grade teacher teaches math that is extremely behind. For example, by the end of my 8th grade year, we were learning function notations instead of other things and we had only learned 8 subjects out of the whole school year. I’d like to say that this is where the problem starts. Now that I will be heading off to high school in about 2 months, I can confidently say that I have not learned enough of the material needed for 9th grade, and because of this, I will have to learn the material that I did not learn during my 8th grade year over the summer. In my personal opinion, I don’t think this school should be giving false information on report cards about how a child is doing, when it comes to math. I say this because usually you would think that your child is the level needed for math, but in reality, your child is only ahead in like 4-6th grade math while said child is in 7-8th grade! Another example of how behind this math is was when I took the MAP/NWEA test and the state test. A majority of the math I could not understand due to the lack of subjects the 6th grade teacher had taught us throughout my whole 8th grade year. This is a problem and I hope that St. Anthony takes ahold of this situation, because it has not only affected my classmates and I, but it will affect future children coming to this school who are going to the 6-8th grade.