This school is just crazy!
Coming from a town as small as Farmer City, where a new kid comes and the entire school knows before they even get there, to a big city like Lakeland, where I’ve been in the school for over a month and I am still having people in class who don’t even realize I’m there. I’d rather it be this way though, I’m not really one to want a lot of attention. But when I’ve been in class over a month and the teachers don’t know my name, let alone others’ names who have been there all year.. it gets disappointing. The curriculum here is so far behind. Back home we would joke about Blue Ridge being “the dumb school” and when we don’t know something, saying, “I went to Blue Ridge,” but I never really realized how hard that school pushed us until I got down here. The school system here is honestly a disgrace… any parent could walk in and be disappointed with the education their children are getting. Not to mention the teachers allow their students to walk all over them, cursing at them, consistently not doing assignments, and being flat out disrespectful. It is SUCH a culture shock for me to be here, sometimes I have to contain myself from letting my jaw hit the floor. Maybe what baffles me the most (and maybe this is the reason for the lack of enforcement of the curriculum) is that the teacher will tell us to get something out in preparation for the day’s lesson, and when a few students complain, (back to the disrespect) the teacher will put in a movie. And not even like a documentary, or some kind of even remotely educational video, I’m talking about movies like “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” and “Medea Goes To Jail.” This is just crazy.. and something really needs to be done.
