Sterling Heights Senior H.S.

Absolutely terrible!!! I hated every single minute I was at this school. For starters, school starts way too early for teenagers to even learn anything. There are too many kids at this school and I just felt like a number in the crowd. I felt invisible. The kids already had their friend groups and I made no friends. I ate lunch alone every day and nobody ever came to sit with me or talk to me. The teachers are also terrible. My English teacher hated us and called us stupid. She made us do too much work. She made us write essays but we had to use her exact essay format which was a terrible way to write essays. My math teacher couldn’t teach worth anything and everyone that has had him agrees. The material on his test was not anything like what we had “learned” in class. I earned my first bad grade in his class because he couldn’t teach. My dance teacher called me and my dance partner “weighed down” and was discriminatory against bigger girls who didn’t have dancer bodies. Wcspa was terrible too. There are again too many kids and it focused heavily on dance. We maybe acted a handful of times throughout the whole year. Overall my experience was terrible.

I graduated from SHHS with a 3.8 GPA and honors and am currently attending Michigan State. I continue to do well in my studies. However, I can whole-heartedly and without a doubt say that none of my collegiate accomplishments can be attributed to the pathetic excuse for an education that I received here. I did well in my AP classes in order to bring as much knowledge with me to college as possible. The teachers failed to help me achieve this. I came to college confident of my ability, and for the last three years, it has become clearer and clearer of the simple things I find myself struggling with that all students around me gained from high school. Most notably, a proper history education and the ability to conduct formal research. AND the arithmetic sector of this high school--my AP calc class was basically a sham, with a teacher who had no right (moreso ability) to teach it. There are teachers, few and far between, who are knowledgable and generous with their time/ability to teach; but the lot is lazy and presumes "eh, most of the students are entering the workforce or Macomb Community anyhow, who cares." It is sad, and I should have transferred after freshman year.

We all know some people will complain about everything. But all I've seen is so far so good.

My son is a 4.0 student. I find some (english, history) teachers just don't care. Good principal, good band director, good counseling staff, lots of class choices. He's getting a good education & is happy.