Naples High School

I would rather a different school but we will tolerate it this year. In the future, my students will attend elsewhere if at all possible. Maybe we will even do online or home school.

Some of the teachers/administrators at this school single out students (students who, prior to NHS, were straight A students) due to their socio-economic class, or due to their refusal to be in gifted programs. Like clockwork, such children are unfairly penalized for lower offenses, and parents threatened, while such behavior is overlooked for other students.While NHS offers a QUALITY program with good technology and a a nice campus, one has to weigh weather it is worth their child's record to attend here.For instance, Mr. Bryant, gave a child a SUSPENSION for using a curse word with another student. While I believe this IS something worthy of a detention, a call to the parent, and a combined effort to impress upon the student why this behavior is unacceptable, a SUSPENSION goes too far and IS NOT utilized UNIFORMLY for all students at NHS. Someone should investigate this.

There is no school spirit. The teachers are all former students of Naples High, and yet they put the minimum effort into it. The school has no clubs, no events, no Disney World trips, no nothing. The school is across from Coastland Mall, and there are no clubs that meet over at the mall after school, nothing to do for the students to bond. This school is just a K-Mart of Education. There is no special High School Experience for the kids who go to Naples High.

Naples High School is one of the best schools in Collier County. We have a great AICE program and that provides many AP courses. I have concerns with the teachers. The teachers are very rude to the students and stray off topic very often. The teachers don't teach, they show, especially in the math department. The teachers favor the more popular kids, and let them get away with dress code and not doing homework, etc. As a transfer from Barron High School, I believe that Naples beats Barron in everything (academics, sports, band, etc). But the school does not offer many outside experiences. No field trips were provided this year, except for the band. But the band and sports members receive special treatment. But Naples High School definitely has the best school design in Collier County. Naples is the only outdoor public high school in the county. As a varsity letterman in two sports, I have traveled to all the schools in the county and we definitely have the best campus. Gulfcoast and Barron High School feel like prisons, while at Naples you walk outside to all your classes. Overall, we need improved and fairer teachers, but we are definitely one of the best schools in the county.