Granite Bay High School

If you have a student with a learning disability or has any challenges academically this is NOT the school to attend. Most staff and administration have little to no understanding, support or compassion for these students. Most only teach to and acknowledge those high achieving students and are bothered to accommodate students with special circumstances. The staff and administration do not follow or support the accommodations of their learning disabled students.These students are being discriminated against based on their disability and rights to use accommodations within the general education classroom. These accommodations are seen as an unfair advantage given to learning disabled students over the other students at GBHS. If your child attends this school and has accommodations as a parent be prepared to question, fight and advocate for your student and their rights. A large number of students that are struggling end up in course and credit recovery. Families have to pay tutors just to help them keep up. The pace and demand of the academics along with pressure to do well has caused a very big cheating problem. Even if your student is not cheating, they will be treated and viewed as a cheater. Some teachers do get it, but the administration and especially the math department's attitude towards these students is unacceptable and not changing. The special ed department's knowledge, process and support materials are completely outdated. There is very little elective options offered at this school outside of AP, IB, advanced and honors classes. In the 2017-2018 school year, the school added a 28 minute “priority period” to their schedule to offer additional help and support for their students. This is something other schools have been doing for years. Maybe they are finally seeing that a large majority of their students are struggling and need additional help. Overall, staff and administration’s attitude towards their learning disabled and academically challenged students need to change. This school needs to understand that not all their students are on a path to transfer to a 4 year university. They need to see this and support those students and their goals. Hopefully sooner than later they will see that the true success of a school is about including and supporting ALL students with all levels of learning and with different educational paths.

I find Granite Bay HS staff and teachers down right disappointing. They have a sink or swim mentality, they are a disservice to the children and to the parents who put their trust in public education.

Although this school has a very dedicated teachers who deserve real respect, still some other teachers and staff are suffering from Racism behaviour towards the students from different religion and race , a bad feature that is not getting serious attention from the administration .. In addition, most of teachers are lazy and depends on their tutors , rather than spending some efforts with the kids, especially the math dept. .. Some teachers are using their authority for setting personal accounts with the students

Great education prep for college and life.