SLA

This is the high school, I thought I would be interested in going to last year but since then, I have found a dislike for it. This school is only three years old and is getting more popular by the day from principal Chris Lehmann and even if his ideas are striking and worth listening too, the failure of picking the right students and teachers are indubitable.

As a student coming from South Philadelphia in a school, where I gained my personality and work ethic, I also learned unique traits that were of help from a public school. Now coming into another public school(even if it is a magnet school and they pick there own students) I was guessing from hearing Lehmann speak before on different occasions, that he would pick students that had a head on there shoulders. After 2 years with the same kids and teachers, I grown a dislike to his judgment and of others. He picked students that run around like little children and play Yugioh cards in the 9-11 grades. This is high school and I thought this meant the childish games and acts were left in middle school, I guess I was wrong.

The teachers also have a weird way to communicate and somewhat act the same as the students. Besides him picking teachers between the ages of 23-30 at the most, he had teachers that all shared weird ways of demonstrating communication skills. Usually in high school as well as middle school, I was able to like one teacher who was a normal person who shared the same communication skills and topics as I but yet in this school, the teachers and I dont seem to see eye to eye. Now before you ask, I am an A and B student and always have been of such good work ethic. So I needed to dissect a different way to look at this little problem, maybe its because we see the world different? I doubt that is why. The real reason might be that I dont want to stay in the office and hang out with the teachers who have ADHD. I'd rather find a group of friends to talk too as your more likely suppose to in high school. But see if you do something like this, then you are "off there radar" for special promotions and trips and talking to you like they do to the off beat students who hang in the office.

As hard as it is to believe, in this school the environment is suppose to protect everyone, but yet I feel offended everyday I walk in the building. The teacher that try's to find any reason to get me in trouble. Or the one time occasion where I was yelled at from the principal in which he went against his own rules of being able to let yourself be heard and have a say in a problem in this "safe" environment. He made me sit down and listen and not fight my part of the problem, which let me explain wasnt even a problem. The teacher was on my case the whole year so far, so I chose to take a different route inspired by Lehmann, I thought to take a sign and say "Injustice I want ----- Class" taped on my shirt. This was my second attempt in telling this teacher to leave me alone but yet it failed. What he explained to the teacher AFTER we have spoken about it, note the weirdness coming in from a teacher. He talked to me about it and explained but then I get a call to go to the office and there he is with the teacher. Acting more masculine then I have ever seen in this teacher screaming and yelling saying "I was disturbing the peace in the class". Where is the peace at!? Or better yet how is it possible that I was disturbing the class if I sit in the back of the room and No one pays attention to the back since the teacher is in the front. Now if you say something to me about it of course you are disturbing students.

These are some of the problems(with many more) in the school and I hope to get more students that I believe have there head on straight to tell their stories in this school in my documentary about the school and students.