North Arvada Middle School

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Most of the teachers are good. Some I dont necessarily agree with but most of the time its a good school. However, new rules have been imposed this year and I strongly disagree with them. For one, bathroom passes are required now and you can only have 4 per class per semester, so thats 16 times to go to the bathroom during a semester. Now I understand why they imposed the rule. But what if you're literally about to pee your pants and you've run out of bathroom passes for the class you're in? What do they expect us to do? Pee on the floor? And what about periods? If I need to change something down there, and I don't have any bathroom passes left, do they just expect me to bleed on the floor? Or bleed through my pants? They tell you to use the bathroom during passing periods, but we simply DO NOT HAVE TIME. Passing periods are 3 minutes. And it is not possible to go from your class to your locker, open it, grab your stuff for your next class, go to the bathroom, and go to your next class in 3 minutes. You can try it, you basically have no time to do anything and after your counted late 3 times, you have to have lunch detention. Now tell me, how is any of that fair and respecting our basic human rights? I sincerely hope they change these procedure next year, and I'm thanking my lucky stars that Im in 8th grade so i don't have to endure North Arvada any more after this year. I don't have any problems with the students, they're fine. Some are rude and disrespectful and I know some kids who still get bullied, but my problem is with the administration. You can do one or the other, limit our bathroom passes, or shorten our passing periods. You cannot do both then expect us not to be late to classes and punish us if we are.

I suggest that your student was being incredibly disrespectful. North Arvad is a bad neighborhood school, and I'm SHOCKED at how blatantly they sass and disrespect Mr. Cross. He has a really hard time teaching. Talk to your kid-I bet Mr. Cross called home at least once because of his or her behavior. And FYI- Mr. Cross probably had a certifiable reason. Assuming your child is disrespecting Mr. Cross, it's probably a result of YOUR behavior. I'm in the gifted program. North Arvada is a good school for GT, but has horrible, disrespectful teens. I hear people calling each other b------ and saying s--- and f--- every day in the halls, even to teachers-What do you know! Mr. Cross. Testimony of a 7th Grader at North Arvada, 2012

North Arvada Middle School is a great school. I have had a student in the gifted program and in the regular ed program. The staff is very supportive of all kids. They are encouraged to become involved and succeed in their school work. Everyone has been open and willing to help. They students are friendly and are expected to be respectful of each other and the adults.