457 Eric (The Chinese Legend) Honestly this middle school was a subpar experience for me in almost every way. First off you have to pay 25k a year for it, so you have some pretty high standards for the school. But it seems they used it all for the high school as the difference between the 2 is almost night and day. My family was expected best of the best from this school as they used lots of their money for this school but it sadly was wasted.
The after school activities in the middle school were poorly ran. For example the robotics team was so unorganized, the coach of it barely even interacted with our group and basically made us figure it out on our own(a habit for the teachers here). We ended up getting dead last in the competition because nobody knew what they were doing. And half the team quit because they saw how poor our team was, yet the coach said nothing and didn’t care.
The teachers here were mixed. There are a few that are really good and a few that were bad. Too bad most the good teachers have left. Teachers made me learn nothing, either the class was a joke or you were scratching your head. When I struggled in a class the teachers didn’t care and just catered towards the ones who are already good. Ahem: Mr.D. I’ve had teachers throw a tantrum on me just because I decided to use the free work time for other classes work. I guess she was having a bad day but jeez she was pissed over nothing. And the French class might as-well have been a prison for us, we were all forced to take a quarter of it and the students were completely disengaged and made the class a nightmare battle between the teacher and the students.
If you’re like me and are new coming into the middle school, you’ll find it very hard to connect with the students here. Most of them come from heaps and heaps of money and are only comfortable in their small groups. They are quick to spread false rumors about someone to try and be funny, and then before you know it the whole school thinks you’re a weirdo
It doesn’t help that I went here during Covid and the online portion was so horrible mismanaged. I ended up failing classes because they expected you to go to the store and buy materials for their project and build it all on your own using saws and stuff. When we came back from online school they made us do CCC(completely waste of time) and gave us only 5/10 min lunches some days. 25k a year but it is only slightly above average(all middle schools are pretty bad). Now the high school is a complete different story and if you are interested in joining lake highland do it in 9th grade. Also the staff here are just average, all the good staff you will find in the high school. I guess the only really good thing I can say is it’s a really clean school. But again you expect it for the money you pay.
This school could be a lot better now and I hope it is for the students, but I can honestly say I don’t know what I learned in my 2 years here, and I made very little connections. I’m grateful the high school has been better though.
1 /5
Hershel Sapp Nice clean school
5 /5
