Del Oro High School

Bad rules bad everything. The school never good.

I recently graduated as a part of the class of 2022. The first year was good and I felt like I was cared for and wanted, which is what I needed. However, on the outside, things were different. Someone had a violent drug trip and we had to go into a lockdown once which served as an omen for how many more people would be having overdoses at this school. I never had a bullying problem, but the students and some of the staff at DO can be pretty homophobic and racist. From people shouting slurs in the hallway to the administration not dealing with hate attacks. My sibling was constantly getting sexually harassed for presenting lgbtq and the staff did close to nothing after we both reported it. Those students also apparently had a history of doing that and they were still there. Back to my experience, sophomore year was close to the same in the first half as freshman year, we won’t talk about the second half of that or junior year cause that was all distance learning and they were trying their best. But senior year, oh boy. Never in my life have I felt more like the dirt under someones shoe of the office staff and like they were just ready to get rid of me. Especially my counselor. I thought we were on good terms and he helped me a lot, but then there was just a complete 180 where he would not help with almost anything and was not understanding at all anymore. A couple teachers I had that I had never met before were amazing and very helpful, but overall the administration only went downhill into the dumpster and a large population of the students are awful. The teachers I had were great but half of them left during the lockdown.

I will always recommend this school, but the administration needs to address the serious drug problems currently going on throughout the district. The rise of these problems began late into my junior year, and by senior year kids wouldn't even get a slap on the wrist. I graduated in 2020, but since then, my dad went back to visit because he saw shoes hanging from the street posts and heard multiple stories from parents about their current DO students overdosing and going to clinics to fix their addictions. This is a big concern to me as someone who I consider my little brother is currently attending. If the administration sees this, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE fix these issues; I am slowly becoming embarrassed to say I went to DO due to these current problems. On a positive note, I loved all the teachers, and even though I wasn't super into sports, the school spirit is unlike any other. If sports aren't your thing, there are great clubs and performing arts to check out that are just as successful as sports teams.

I was an exchange student at Del Oro in 1983 and the teaching was excellent! I enjoyed visited 2018!

The boys soccer program is a scam. The head coach favors the kids who have played on his competitive soccer team. He picks kids for the team that have played in his club. What a conflict of interest. Spots are not given to the best players. Skill and ability have nothing to do with who gets on a team. Talk about politics. The kids cannot even complain because the problem is with the head coach. No wonder the Del Oro boys soccer team have a poor record. Start choosing players based on ability and skills. Maybe you will be able to win. Shame on you Del Oro for letting this happen over and over again.