Bethel High School

I hated this school it did nothing but give me depression and made me want to drop out. The staff where highly unencouraging and always told me I wasn't going to be anything or make anything of myself because I was having a child 10th year. But in leaving I finished high and graduated college twice with my son in toll despite they backlash and constant bullying with the students. The staff would bring me down and shame me along with the students as they did with some others. One child took they life because of it and was a friend to my sister. I'm just glad I got out of that school when I did.

Lack of communication all the way from guidance to teachers. Teachers show lack of interest in students well being and grades. Students aren't given proper tools to succeed. Little to no after/before school for tutoring or help. Emails and phone calls go unanswered for days, sometimes weeks at a time. I pulled my daughter out of this school in her freshman year.

There is such a lack of communication between parents, teachers and guidance counselors even with the technology we have available. The Guidance counselors don't do what they say they will. For example, my son wasn't turning in homework so the guidance counselor stated that she would have him write his homework down and then verify that he, in fact was turning it in. This didn't happen even once. They don't care and if you email them you'll discover that THEY should be in English class themselves. I'm all for email having a different level of formality but when you can't form a complete sentence and use spell check you're in the wrong field. Professionalism.

My son is a freshman at Bethel. He has come home and told me about several fights in the school. This is typical of high school, but the teachers tend to not get involved. Of course, I'm not sure I blame them. The worst part about the school is the lack of communication from the teachers; not all teacher, but the majority that my son has this year. Several of his teacher lag behind putting grades into the system so that we can monitor his success. Buy the time grades are entered, it's too late to do anything about it. The office staff is not very friendly either. The JROTC instructor (one of them) is also a coach. He has the student repeat after him in ebonics. I have taught my children the correct way to speak since they began talking. I have a problem with this. This is a low class school.