Iris St #44
Winston Salem, NC 27107

Some teachers talk to students with a lot of disrespect

Like many schools in underserved and underrepresented communities, federal and state resources are limited in availability for helping students reach their full potential. Teachers care deeply about the students and the students form irreplaceable bonds with each other that will carry them throughout their lives. More resources need to be directed to the school to help with tutoring, ESL and parent-involved activities the students and families can enjoy that help with reading and math.

I have gone to Hanes all 3 years..Never in my life have I been so excited to leave a place. The cafeteria lunch is always old, the cafeteria itself is old, basically, the whole school is due for a remodel. We had a fundraiser last year where they just ended up using the money for decals for the gym which barely lasted half a school year. The school could benefit from proper budgeting. The school highly favors the HAG program more than anything and don't get me started on the staff. This year more than half of the old staff left and all the new staff has no idea what they're doing. The new assistant principals seem lost half the time as well as the other, very sensitive may I add, staff. Everything about Hanes is unpleasant, and the only reason it's considered a "good school" is because of the very biased HAG program that might seem appealing to new students, but it's not worth going to the school for. Instead of focusing on other issues like vaping in the bathroom and the use of illegal substances students use throughout the school day, they decided to focus on their uniform and dress code system. This should be the least of their problems. There are no jackets allowed in school, even when it's freezing INSIDE, (mind you the school heaters sometimes break which should be added to their main list of issues), They focus on the length of girl's skirts more than anything and they make their MAIN focus on how the students are dressed.Now that we are talking about the main issues, let's talk about the sanitation of the school. The bathrooms barely get cleaned and when they do, it's a sloppy unfinished job, same with the classrooms. No shade to the janitors..they try their best. The bathrooms sometimes don't have soap or toilet paper. Only water... The 8th grade boy's bathroom is almost always flooded which is more of a student behavior problem but still. One time I was sitting in my 7th-grade ELA class and a roach ran by, Near the end of the school year also they had an ant problem in the hallway where ants would crawl out cracks in the wall...gross. The behavior of the students has got to be the worst part of Hanes, they rip apart the bathroom, breaking sinks and soap dispensers. Fights happen very often and over anything and it's just overall very unsafe. I strongly discourage wasting your time at this school, I'm sure their better options out there. If you are looking for a nice, unified, CLEAN, well-behaved school, Hanes is not what you are looking for