Corruption In High School Enviroment How Corrupted Is Your School? High Schools only

[reconraiders 0]

I worry every day about the condition of school systems these days. I know one day I will have to put my kids through high school. I don't want them to be exposed to all the things I was exposed to when I was in high school. I was strong enough and smart enough to not get involved with all of the bad things that went on. I hope my kids will be strong enough to do that too.

[Liam_CF 0]

Nothing bad really happens at my school. There's the occasional fight and stuff but that's the extent of it.The worst we've had is when some people from another school came to cause trouble and everyone laid into them.

[iGuest 3]

I learned through statistics that the only place that has ever had school shootings are in America. Where are you all from?

[Tunay 0]

The High School that i graduated from is racist. How do i know this? Well They called me out of class cause a butter knife fell out of my back pack *i had brought a jar of peanut butter and a jar of jelly and a loaf of bread for a group of my friends for lunch out in the court yard* and me being a child of "color" the teacher called down the deans and they even had a police officer to escort me to the deans office. Mind you it was a BUTTER KNIFE! ok so i sat down and they started telling me about how i brought a weapon to school yea right butter knife weapon. They said that they had to suspend me for 10 days out of school suspension AND THEN they had me in In school suspension for 3 months woo and i only brought a butter knife for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. then after the teachers stopped sending me work and lessons to me in inschool suspension they expelled me for no reason! i was so angry. and then my mom called some guy to get me back into that forsaken high school and they got me back in but when i came back they emptied out my locker, read all my notebooks notes and hw essays everything! >.> talk about privacy. then they threw it all away. especially my poetry notebook (it was special to me. all the people i've ever met let me have a poem of theirs and put it in this notebook) and the deans read the whole note book Thought that i was Crazy! and sent me to a psychiatrist. no joke. So i went to the psychiatrist and she said there was nothing wrong with me and she told me that my high school was a huge joke. ( which everyone in my family and every student in that school already believed). So when i walked back into the high school i was expelled from i saw the dean escort a hispanic female and a Caucasian female and you know what the dean did to the caucasian female? he let her go he said "what are you doing here? go back to class" and you know what he said to the hispanic girl? "here is your reminder date for your 1 week suspension get your stuff and leave" honestly can you believe that? its unbelievable how deans don't give equal opportunity to everyone -.- oh and a week later when i came back from being expelled for no reason i saw a caucasian guy twirling a butter knife with his fingers! and no one did anything about it. it made me really mad -.- but w/e i just kept my mouth shut cause all the teachers were told to keep a close eye on me. HAH i'm glad i'm out of high school now -.-**btw i'm not racist i get along with everyone! i just don't get along with power hungry deans**

[encryptedwrath 0]

My school isn't too bad. But the previous headmaster , who is now working at a supermarket about 20 miles away , was diverting funds from the government into his own bank account. It wasn't publicly known how much money was stolen , but The dent on our education was done. All of the teachers had thought that tight government resources were to blame. But at least it doesen't show now. Our school is consistently one of the highest performing in the area. It is being extended quite bit , as if to make up for lost time due to the missing funds. I look forward to our school being more up to date =]

[cangor 0]

I learned through statistics that the only place that has ever had school shootings are in America. Where are you all from?

Yeah, that's definitely not true, just google "your country" school shooting and chances are an article will come up about shooting going on at schools.

I go to public school in an area where most everyone is upper-middle class. So basically we have a bunch of snobs and quite a bit of drinking, but there are rarely any fights anything, and I don't think we've ever had a shooting at our school.

[Reekun 0]

Well I just started this topic because i think its interesting how messed up schools are these days.. heres some stuff that goes on at my school1) Drug dealing, everyone smoking weed (i dont do it though)
2) Alcohol.. seniors buyin "juice" for the minors (i do it.. but i keep it at a minimum unless its a party or sumthin)
3) Fights.. when i was in gr. 9, there was a huge fight between blacks and indians
when i was in gr. 10, there was a huge fight between indians and WHITEs, its not a racist school but its just the groups that hang out with one another
4) All the drunks, just yesterday a guy came to school drunk and passed out in the hallway and teachers went crazy
5) More violence, a guy got his head smashed into a window today, there was blood and broken glass everywhere
6) not at my school, but at a nearby school, a teacher got shot by her husband, a lot of kids are taking counselling and stuff to forget about the shooting

theres tons more and ill post when i remember, how is your school?

Your high school sounds freaking insane.

My high school is a bunch of peaceful asian pacifists lol.

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I don't know anymore, like at break time there's some people that just smoke pot near the PE lockerroom area, but overall our school is a brilliant place. It's just like a little bubble community and everyone's nice.

The teachers are nice, there's no stabbing going on, some bullying here and there. How I love school :-)

Hyperbole I know, but it fits.
Edited January 27, 2008 by Reekun (see edit history)

[bthaxor 0]

ok, i don't know what is happening at your schools, but it must be a one in a million.i attend the best high school in australia (james ruse), and NONE of these things happen there. just one street away from us, there is another high school: cumberland high. now THEY are worse: a non-selective high school, they were on the news last year for a big bash-up. i don't know if these things happen EVEN there. drugs, alchohol... i have never been exposed to these things throughout my high school life.these things definitely do not happen in the better, selective high schools.

[usedragon 0]

Here at our school only has few fights occasionally because of annoying people that doesn't want to stfu or when someone said something that other person doesn't like. We have a SRO (Student Rep Officer) or something like that at our school to keep violence to an minimum. Alcohol isn't a big issue, but drugs is once in awhile if someone brought some to school and get caught. Our school buys stuff that we don't even need, doesn't fix anything that really needs to be fix, charge us things that needs to be "free", and other crap that they do just to get money from us. I think our school acts like it's poor, but not actually is.

[A200 0]

My school is pretty good, it is one of Brisbane's best. We have no gun, knife, or bomb issues at all, if someone came in with a knife the school would probably plunge into lockdown mode and the police would come and arrest that individual, but it has never happened.Alcohol is banned as well, noone takes it in. And fights do occur, but they don't ever get that bad...But last year we did have a major issue with people going into Queen St Mall, and smoking and doing other underage or illegal stuff. I remember the friday before, I was on the council bus, and a heap of them were at the back smoking, plain as day. I was surprised they weren't kicked off the bus.But I know some other schools do have crime problems, at some, kids take knifes to school not to fight, but for protection from all the really bad bad kiddies running around.

[baphometslayer 0]

Corruption is rampart in all levels of High School. I got in a bit of trouble at school for a website I was running. Despite them completely ignoring the disclaimer, I got in a bunch of trouble.I got called in to the office, where the Principle and Sheriff were waiting for me. I claimed that they were violating my 1st amendment rights, and the principle just looked at me and said, "When we come to school, we leave the constitution at the front door." This is downright blasphemy!I went to a pretty small school, but the students were VERY open about their activities, even to teachers. The school board played favoritism with their children whom were in the school. It was all very discouraging. When I have children I'll either home-school them or be very selective with a private school.

[Qittie deKay 0]

Hmm...sounds like you have it pretty rough, man. I went to two different high schools, one in the deep south and one in urban Virginia. So, as you can imagine, there were different problems with each.In Virginia I saw a lot of the same problems you talk about. Underage drinking, especially on campus, was a big one. The drug scene was mostly taken care of outside of school, but there were occasional deals during school hours. The biggest thing was fighting between the "groups". We mostly saw gang wars between black people and latinos. There was one between the whites and the blacks, though. It sort of cycled around my freshman year; you never knew who the next target was, or where the next fight was going to be.My sophomore and junior year were spent in the deep south, in a rural town and a very small school. The biggest thing there were alcohol and tobacco products on campus. With a total school population of around 500 it was easier for them to crack down security-wise, though. However, there were a few racial problems because the kids were predominantly white, and most were prejudiced. I never saw a black family stay in the school district for more than a few years at a time until I got older.My senior year I was back in Virginia, and the problems I mentioned previously were pretty much stamped out. Most of the prejudice and fighting was relegated to sub-groups, between the goths and hardcore punks, emos and preps, etc. It was really ridiculous, but even the cheerleaders had to pick on people. They tried to trashcan me because I wore a trench coat and combat boots. Apparently dressing in black makes you a goth. To clarify, our group called itself the Trench Coat Mafia because most of our number owned trenchies, and we didn't identify ourselves as any of the subgroups. We just wore what we wanted and watched each others' backs because of all the intra-group and inter-group fighting.Personally, I think it's ridiculous that so much labeling, stereotyping, and prejudice is still around. Even in college I find it impossible to escape. But, no, I don't wear the trench anymore. Even blue jeans and a tank top can incite some pretty small minded comments. Bother...

[NNNOOOOOO 0]

Not to revive a topic or anything, but as I read some of these posts, I thought to myself "Good God, I'd hate to go to some of these schools."The only time I remember drinking at my school happened on my home bus (we have two busses to get to middle/high school). I was in middle school when someone brought some alcoholic drink to school, someone else brought shot glasses. The two people didn't know the other person would bring the other stuff. One of them got drunk on the way to school.I don't witness any drug dealing, just hear about it going on. People smoke in the bathrooms. Sometimes they close bathrooms on one side of the school to stop the smoking. They even put up signs in the bathroom that give false info on purpose to make you not smoke in school (it never works though).The most fights we have are about 2-3 a month. Sometimes we go months without a fight. The only people who say teachers don't teach anything are the ones who don't pay attention 90% of the time. 70%-90% of the teacher I had/have are "fun".We don't have gangs. The groups of people in my school are classifies as:Smart- everyone says they're smartAverage- 70% of everyone says they're smart.Dumb- Call themselves averageBrain-dead- The first two groups (excluding [most] teacher) wonders how this group is still alive. Most pregnant people are in this group and the above group. The teachers that make fun of this group are the "fun", "cool" teachers.As for weapons, some people bring to show off, but don't actually use them. We have a cop that's been hired to patrol inside the school. If you get caught doing something you're not allowed to (includes dress code violations), the teachers do stuff about it. If you get caught chewing tobacco, some teacher will offer a break for it.One of my current teachers told us a story about how he caught someone chewing, and obviously, the kid denied it. The kid claimed to be drinking the Mountain Dew, not spitting tobacco juice in it. The teacher told him to either drink the "Mountain Dew", or go to the office and get written up for tobacco possession and use. The kid decided to drink the "Mountain Dew", and the teacher held his end of the deal. Apparently, the kid turned different colors throughout the day.The "boring" teacher will flat out turn you in. That's my high school.

[Iniyila 2]

hmm i haven't seen any of these mentioned corruptions in my schools except fighting ones. fights are happening in all schools and i don't think there is any school out there that has no fight during a month but the important thing is that how much these fights got violence. in my schools (middle and high) there were no too violence fight at all. small injuries happened like getting punched in nose or month but there were no bloody fight at all. i have heard my friend that in his brother school they have bloody fights which includes fighting with knives which i have heard for the first time from him. this is very dangerous in any school and can cause serious injuries so i think there should be very strong security team in these schools because you can not stop a kid whom has a knife! as the world goes older kids in the schools become more violent. no one likes to send his child to school in the morning and see his kid with an eye blinded in the afternoon (which i have read happened in a middle school) so there should be some restrictions and very precise observation to control environment of these schools.

[AzureMusique 0]

What I don't get is why this government let some of these schools go to waste. It should be a safe environment that everyone enjoys coming to. Instead, all the government does is "tightening" up learning on students, make school liable if they don't improve standards, shut them down, and more than likely fire all the teachers in that "bad" school. Dude, the only reason why some schools or cities are so bad is because they don't even put enough training into teachers and don't even take into account that the "bad" schools are located in low-income neighborhoods where violence are more than likely to occur. Of course kids aren't gonna be able to concentrate--and the many that are affected show this by disrupting the "safe place" through fights, thievery and vandalism, as well as other forms of delinquency. I'm mad as hell as a future educator.However, with the school I had gone to, it was in a pretty decent neighborhood, with some healthy bit of rivalry.

Edited January 8, 2011 by AzureMusique (see edit history)