I find it interesting as a student in an alternative school where they don’t even give snacks out ( only one teacher had to go above and beyond to supply some snacks) that we don’t have a cafeteria-like setting to choose food. I wish we had better options, just like the public schools do. They sold ramen for a little bit about the only food that’s cheap, other than the vending machines.
To be completely serious, I can just go to my school without any issues. I just don’t like it I sit there with no emotion behind my work I go on with life knowing I went to one of the really unpopular schools in Tucson, Arizona. Our school is filled with kids that don’t care about work; they talk, laugh, have fun because that’s all they know. This isn’t a real school you don’t have any power over the student just like every other school; but in this school, students can walk out or school officials will just call the cops.
Our school is basically a warehouse with computers, one hallway, and a few rooms. There’s no real consequence when students “bend” the rules. I think it is stupid for school officials to take our bathroom passes rather than confronting us about vandalism and such. Sometimes you will see students wait 30 minutes before going inside the school building because students don’t like going to school. They always tell us to put our phones away but that’s the only thing that shields me from hearing other noises.
To me, there are several ways of making school fun for us students. One way is to allow students to adjust the monitors of the computers- they are all too stiff and not properly aligned to our eyesight. Another way to make school bearable is to have cleaner workstations and bathrooms. Lastly, maybe an administration change will give students a fresh perspective on more effective leadership.
By Wyatt Grendell-Larson
PRA 411 