405 Yale Ave
Baltimore, MD 21229

The school atmosphere sometimes reminds me of a juvenile setting. Pinned up aggression among the students and some faculty. I received a report that one teacher be posted on their cell phone. When the students see this they take advantage of the situation. If you watching your phone how can you see who did what to who!!I understand being a teacher is not easy and they don't always receive the recognition they deserve..Respect and patience don't cost you anything.

The school is riddled with gang violence and drug usage from drugs being sold in the school around the school and infrontbof cameras I've witnessed it first handbot to mention the penalty for this is suspension not expulsion school police is useless and bullying is a common practice because no one chooses to do anything to weed out the bad students.

There are amazing things happening at Forest Park that a lot of people don’t even realize. Transformation of the Forest Park they used to know started when Principal Mouzone took over. She not only challenges the students to do better but she challenges her entire staff, families and the community. She lets us know daily that this change can only continue to occur when as a team work together for the greater good, our students. They are excelling in academics, sports, service to others to become the global citizens we want them to be.

I teach at this school, so this isn't an easy review to write. However, I think it will give parents and the general community some insight into this school.This school's culture, if you want to call it that, is basically to repeatedly claim that the student body has a low socioeconomic status, so there's nothing that can be done to help them learn English or gain some understanding of the typical high school subjects that any parent would want their child to have. There is a lot of apathy about low levels of learning and an over-emphasis on empathy, because the empathy excuses the apathy.The apathy manifests itself in the incredible retention rate for administrators, department heads, and "ed associates" at this school. The people who, in theory, are supposed to ensure that the school is meeting its goals are completely insulated from any accountabilty whatsoever. As a teacher, I understand that students from lower SES backgrounds aren't going to pass assessments at the same rate as students in middle-class and upper-middle-class schools. However, Patterson right now has exactly zero expectation that any student will improve or even approach proficiency. Not one student is proficient in math, and yet the same person has been in charge of the math department for more than a decade. The ESOL department isn't getting many students to have minimal English skills? No problem, the very same ESOL department head has been in charge for over a decade. And so on, and so on.Despite perennially struggling to graduate students or produce any positive educational results, Patterson has an ossified clique of teachers who prevent any positive change from happening. The same relatively small group of teachers comprise its union chapter committee (UCC), its Grant-A-Wish group, and its Principal Selection Committee (the people who chose the current principal, who is failing). It's not a cross-section of teachers, it's not the best teachers, it's a subset of teachers who are obsessed with fringe political issues and maintaining control, even if it hurts the school as a whole. It has been incredibly corrosive to the culture of the school and many good teachers have left in the post-COVID years.

Love western always represent I also love the sisterhood.

I am a recent alum of the school and still traumatized to this day. I am a black male and the bullying that goes on here is outrageous. The teachers watch and don't do anything. Academically the school was okay, but the kids are off the chain. A lot of them are already sexually active and unruly. The students criticize and bully any boy who does not walk in with $150-$200 pair of shoes. There was a girl who got jumped by older kids right outside of the school. She came to school the next day with her eye completely shut. This school will cause a kid and an adult to be scarred for life. The infrastructure around the school tells a story in itself. There aren't even basketball hoops on the court even though I am told by an older alum that there were before. This school is not good for a child's development. Do not bring your child here.

As a student here, Connexions is a very fun school with great teachers and moderate students. (Best part is that they serve fried chicken and macaroni)

Class Of 2021 Graduate I had a decent 4 year tenure at Digital

Not go at all fighting and conflict

The school is unable too make the children learn. Those of us who do attempt too learn? We cannot, due too other students. The teachers here try, but fail. The student only listen to those they want too, and if not? You won’t learn. I’ve been too many schools in another state, and NEVER have I had such a bad educational experience. I’ve been bullied at one school, but I’d go back: because at least I learned at that school. Also- the student have vapes, and other things? How does that get passed teachers who check bags? Anyway- I was also extremely disappointed too know my education is being mishandled here, because of my peers. I used too have a 4.23 gpa, now I’m unsure what I have. But, I know it’s low. I’m unable too learn, and it’s extremely frustrating. We read a book once? I finished it under an hour. Another book? I read at my old school MONTHS ago. This school is so far behind, and discipline isn’t helping.Do NOT send a child who is academically strong, to this school. It’ll ruin them. Like it’s done too me.