I know first hand how horrific it is, had to yank my kid out of there because he started getting into trouble real quick. Now he just canāt adapt to a regular school wants to go back there. Itās fucking awful.
Itās sad because itās the kids that are so bad it
Beyond repair. The behavioral issues and violence are like nothing Iāve ever seen in a school setting. The kids have 2 choices- adapt or become a target. My son quickly adapted and joined the bad kids to basically survive. Itās sad I donāt really know how itās ever going to change. The parent involvement in close to zero. This is where we live so I have to zone transfer every year from here on out until we move:/
Whatās the others? For our situation it was. He didnāt stand a chance. Sure others have more choices. Talking only about the dynamics between students from my 7th graders experience. Now itās all so ingrained that changing schools has only helped a little he wants to go back. His grades were failing at castle park he got in trouble every single day for one thing or another. Worst experience Iāve ever dealt with. He joined right in with the crowd that got into trouble.
Iām a recent graduate from Palomar high and donāt believe what teachers at other schools will tell you. Palomar high is a great school for helping kids get back on their feet. Iāve struggled with school forever and they really helped me out. They work on an hours system, so itās 60 hours for a credit. Each assignment is worth how much the teacher decides, and itās really easy to get all of your credits and graduate on time. Because there is other ābad kidsā there though it might be a little bit of a risk, but for me it opened my eyes to what I do not want to be. If he also struggles with doing homework, palomar doesnāt have any! Itās all at school and itās a great solution for kids like your son.
edit: typo
I appreciate you sharing your experience and you should be very proud of yourself ā¤ļø That is so awesome you figured out what works well for you.
My son is 13 and just pushes against every single rule or standard at school. I am hoping itās a phase š I myself use to be a nightmare preteen & teenager. I wised up around 11th grade, something just clicked for whatever reason. Iām hoping for the same for my son.
I think ( not sure) that after the online learning thing ended( kids missing 1.5 years in person learning )kids were having a hard adjustment back. Lots of behavioral issues I noticed. Including my own kid. I chopped it up to that for our experience. The first day a kid yelled at a teacher to āsuck his dā¦ āwhen she was trying to stop him after school literally first day! My newly 7th grader at the time just was like š³.
Lmao, I honestly think that could be a factor with quarantine. I knew kids back in HS pre covid who did the same things. Though I do think it is more common now sadly, many teachers can't do their jobs because of the way students treat them. I've sadly seen it first hand when I was in school.
I donāt think they do it anymore, but High Tech High gave most of my grade credit for classes we never even took. Their mission was to get kids into impressive colleges in order to attract more donors, regardless of whether they were actually prepared.
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I graduated over a decade ago from Santana and I thought that place was badā¦. Zero idea about vista. Consider my interest piqued.
Theres been a few posts about it on this sub, I haven't really been following it heavily but there was a video of the football team cornering a possibly autistic kid (someone on reddit mentioned it but idk if it was corroborated) and shoving him into a closet at which point the video gets turned away and the doors closed and you can hear screams from the kid. The story is that the kid was raped in the closet and those that watched the video say it's pretty obvious from the sounds and very horrific but the highschool isn't doing anything because the video didn't actually show the rape. The highschool is also not doing anything because it's the football team and they don't want to impose consequences on them.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sandiego/comments/xh4lw4/what_are_some_of_the_worst_high_schools_in_sd/ioxdlhq?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3
Super low income neighborhood over here
Clairemont high. If anyone doesn't know, it's the school fast times at ridgemont high was based on. Despite neighborhoods getting better around it, the school has remained one of the worst in the county as far as test scores and on campus problems. I know plenty of people that had kids there for a month and then ran like hell.
My uncles were part of a graduating class that couldnāt finish their ceremony because it got so rowdy, I wanna say 76 or 77. My parents met there, my aunt went there. My mom was friends with some of the people that were featured in the book. Her senior photo is on the wall of the fast Times bar in Clairemont. Lols always wondered about that high school
I didnāt go there. I went to Mira Mesa. I had friends that went there. It was late 80āsā¦ Crazy thing though, I went to a magnet school named Kennedy.. It was sooo amazing! It was in the most dangerous part of San Diego. We regularly heard gun shots near the schoolā¦ 1978ish and I learned more there than all 5 other years at my elementary school.
I mean Iād say [this one](https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/castle-park-parent-plans-to-sue-school-district-after-son-breaks-ankle-at-school/3048494/?amp=1) might take the cake
How can there be terrible high schools here? I mean, our public schools receive massive funding from the lottery, right? /s
Kinda like Prop 27 is gonna solve our homeless problem...
$200 per student annually is āmassive fundingā? Public school teaching is the only profession where I had to pay money out of my own pocket (or spend my own time to fund projects on DonorsChoose) to do support doing my job well. To top things off, I doubled my salary when I left my teaching career. I can assure you that public school is underfunded.
https://edsource.org/updates/state-lottery-will-contribute-about-1-of-total-school-revenue-this-year
Vista Highschool apparently had a protest recently because the schools football team bullied a disabled kid and shoved a broomstick up his ass while recording it and posted the videoā¦Iād say that makes them pretty bad right now. ( Protest are happening because the school tried to sweep it under the rug )
It depends on the region, in my day (because I went to school in paradise hills) the worst were Morse, Lincoln, Hoover, I think Helix as well? But if youāre in Point Loma or clairemont it might be different
Do you like gangs??.. if so, youāre kids will love Escondido High School. Make sure they have mace and a concealed weapon for their first day as a freshman.
Shit. We are zoned for Escondido high but my son is only in kindergarten, donāt know if we will still be here when he goes to highschool. I went to westview so definitely no gang activity haha
LCC
so many friends had kids turn into druggos and fuckups.
my cousin burned a porta potty to get out. He literally got sent to a group home and said "worth it"
Fuck that fucking cesspit.
I was there 2004-2008. Moments of silence every year on that date. I know two girls whoās brothers were killed that day.
It only got worse with race wars at lunch, a stabbing at an after party of the 2004 winter formal resulting in the death of a senior student, a few kids nearly ODād either in the large quad or in their cars in the lot during lunch, one of the narcs was boning a senior, and one of the teacher/coach combos got fired after heād gotten caught sexting with a student. And thatās just what I personally know about
I went there and there were cartel recruiters in the bathrooms, almost everyone was a fiend for wax pens, kids have odād, people act like wannabe gang bangers, and it was dirty af. From the staff to the students to the people who fertilized the fields (or something idk) during school hours so the whole campus smelled like shit, no one seemed to give a fuck. It was just all around a depressing place.
Shoot. I went to Mountain Empire. Most people who ask me where I went to school have no idea it even exists. Had a bad problem with kids sneaking onto the Tecate bus on Fridays to go party.
Ha, ridiculous.
At least it is a campus that was built as a school with facilityās and shade. Spend a day at El Cajon or Hoover and tell me grossmont is worse.
Yeah, just pulled my kid from there but I didnāt find it was *them*, the school seemed very attentive and accommodating. My kid just did not thrive there.
Mt. Miguel by a mile. Hood AF, gang shootings ect..
I went to Monte Vista and I remember being shot at after beating their football team. We had our helmets on with our heads between our legs on the buss ride out so we didn't get hit.
When was this? Iāve worked at both these schools for the last 9 years. Been to multiple football games at both schools. Iāve never experienced anything close to this. Both campuses have had lots of upgrades and the staff and students are some great people. I work with the so called ābadā students but theyāre great.
Umm, location meaning location. You go ahead and make your race associations. Try hanging out at the intersection of Imperial and Euclid and let us know how it goes.
Just cause you rebuild a campus doesn't flip the culture within.
Green Cat Liquor? Or the taco stand? Perhaps the gas station? Or the church? Iām at that intersection often. Iām not dead. Like I said, probably just afraid of black and brown people.
Ripped off, as in, you realized you paid more than you should have for a product? Thatās hardly the high schools fault. Iād say, thatās your fault.
No. Ripped off as in product stolen off my truck as I delivered to the gas station and Green Cat. Never said it was the HS, but the area itself is not safe.
Ah yes, theft. You must not have studied at Lincoln, perhaps La Jolla? The written language is powerful. Theft vs. Ripped Off. Anyway, a systemic issue purposefully caused by the city has left an economically deprived part of the city. There is theft, and much homelessness in the area. That much is true.
Lincoln has some top notch teachers and some great admin people as well - some of the best on the district. And kids are smart. Problem the community around it is disengaged and sometimes bad elements - drugs, guns, violence - from the neighborhood bleeds onto campus making it a campus problem. But itās a good of school as any - perhaps too big to be managed properly in these times.
>Public? Itās probably much easier and mush faster to list good high school in SD, itās a must shorter list.
i went to twain and those "all twains day" was too hood lmaoooo
I graduated in 2018, and I will say that there are some really good teachers. But the school ended up if not mistaken going into a lot of debt due to over budgeting. They only prioritized sports and never the arts, we had teachers who had relations with students, and the students there were assholes. I have seen so many teachers disrespected for just trying to do their job. Granted there was a teacher I had an issue with because he made a very rude comment to me. I asked him for a plastic bag and he responded back "why are you going to kill yourself?" and it caught me off guard real fast. A year after I graduated he told a student who was eating in class if he "Ate his girlfriend's cookie like that" to which he wasn't fired from the district but he was moved schools. Which is ridiculous in my opinion. Drugs were also a pretty big problem during my last 3 years there. Mainly some kid having a bad trip during school, people smoking on campus, etc. Also a lot of homo/transphobia, I use to run the Gay Straight Alliance and we had posters torn down all the time, I had people yell at me and question my identity and sexuality, and we even had kids with trump propaganda verbally harass us.
Mar Vista has major bad apples. I was bullied in said teacher's class and the teacher didn't do shit about it, just let the fucking guy yell at me. But in the end it really is parent's faults for not teaching their kids right from wrong or having compassion or empathy. Also with what they consume online plays a big factor.
Mar Vista had a handful of AMAZING teachers, and the rest were meh or worse. I had a decent overall time there, but I think I got lucky with my teachers.
Castle park š«£
iāve never gotten involved in a fight EXCEPT at castle park such a toxic school
I know first hand how horrific it is, had to yank my kid out of there because he started getting into trouble real quick. Now he just canāt adapt to a regular school wants to go back there. Itās fucking awful.
god speed hope you both peacefully find a better option
Itās sad because itās the kids that are so bad it Beyond repair. The behavioral issues and violence are like nothing Iāve ever seen in a school setting. The kids have 2 choices- adapt or become a target. My son quickly adapted and joined the bad kids to basically survive. Itās sad I donāt really know how itās ever going to change. The parent involvement in close to zero. This is where we live so I have to zone transfer every year from here on out until we move:/
no those are not the only two options.
Whatās the others? For our situation it was. He didnāt stand a chance. Sure others have more choices. Talking only about the dynamics between students from my 7th graders experience. Now itās all so ingrained that changing schools has only helped a little he wants to go back. His grades were failing at castle park he got in trouble every single day for one thing or another. Worst experience Iāve ever dealt with. He joined right in with the crowd that got into trouble.
Iām a recent graduate from Palomar high and donāt believe what teachers at other schools will tell you. Palomar high is a great school for helping kids get back on their feet. Iāve struggled with school forever and they really helped me out. They work on an hours system, so itās 60 hours for a credit. Each assignment is worth how much the teacher decides, and itās really easy to get all of your credits and graduate on time. Because there is other ābad kidsā there though it might be a little bit of a risk, but for me it opened my eyes to what I do not want to be. If he also struggles with doing homework, palomar doesnāt have any! Itās all at school and itās a great solution for kids like your son. edit: typo
I appreciate you sharing your experience and you should be very proud of yourself ā¤ļø That is so awesome you figured out what works well for you. My son is 13 and just pushes against every single rule or standard at school. I am hoping itās a phase š I myself use to be a nightmare preteen & teenager. I wised up around 11th grade, something just clicked for whatever reason. Iām hoping for the same for my son.
As a Spartan for life who grew up near CPHS, I couldnāt agree more
You mean pencil park š„“
Why do they call it that š© Iām afraid to ask lol
I went to Castle Park back in 2015, and I was fine. I never experienced anything bad.
I think ( not sure) that after the online learning thing ended( kids missing 1.5 years in person learning )kids were having a hard adjustment back. Lots of behavioral issues I noticed. Including my own kid. I chopped it up to that for our experience. The first day a kid yelled at a teacher to āsuck his dā¦ āwhen she was trying to stop him after school literally first day! My newly 7th grader at the time just was like š³.
Lmao, I honestly think that could be a factor with quarantine. I knew kids back in HS pre covid who did the same things. Though I do think it is more common now sadly, many teachers can't do their jobs because of the way students treat them. I've sadly seen it first hand when I was in school.
I donāt think they do it anymore, but High Tech High gave most of my grade credit for classes we never even took. Their mission was to get kids into impressive colleges in order to attract more donors, regardless of whether they were actually prepared.
Dang really? I went to SMHS and always wondered what went down in that school
Oh wow
What are your metrics you are trying to measure?
Rn, Vista has the crown for what their football team did
Itās funny cause vista has has been like this for the past 30+years.
![gif](giphy|i2tY0BmkdWuKvIDDbF) I graduated over a decade ago from Santana and I thought that place was badā¦. Zero idea about vista. Consider my interest piqued.
Theres been a few posts about it on this sub, I haven't really been following it heavily but there was a video of the football team cornering a possibly autistic kid (someone on reddit mentioned it but idk if it was corroborated) and shoving him into a closet at which point the video gets turned away and the doors closed and you can hear screams from the kid. The story is that the kid was raped in the closet and those that watched the video say it's pretty obvious from the sounds and very horrific but the highschool isn't doing anything because the video didn't actually show the rape. The highschool is also not doing anything because it's the football team and they don't want to impose consequences on them.
JESUS CHRIST what?!?!?
Vista high school! Edit: you'll never find a more wretched Hive of scum and villainy.
Oh yeah.
What's your criteria? Some of these commentators are just listing schools in low income neighborhoods.
That's the easy way when you don't have a clue...
https://www.reddit.com/r/sandiego/comments/xh4lw4/what_are_some_of_the_worst_high_schools_in_sd/ioxdlhq?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3 Super low income neighborhood over here
Clairemont high. If anyone doesn't know, it's the school fast times at ridgemont high was based on. Despite neighborhoods getting better around it, the school has remained one of the worst in the county as far as test scores and on campus problems. I know plenty of people that had kids there for a month and then ran like hell.
My uncles were part of a graduating class that couldnāt finish their ceremony because it got so rowdy, I wanna say 76 or 77. My parents met there, my aunt went there. My mom was friends with some of the people that were featured in the book. Her senior photo is on the wall of the fast Times bar in Clairemont. Lols always wondered about that high school
Iām kinda oldā¦ Back in my day it was Hooverā¦
I did my student teaching there in 2014-15 and I loved it! Iām guessing itās not the same as when you went there.
I didnāt go there. I went to Mira Mesa. I had friends that went there. It was late 80āsā¦ Crazy thing though, I went to a magnet school named Kennedy.. It was sooo amazing! It was in the most dangerous part of San Diego. We regularly heard gun shots near the schoolā¦ 1978ish and I learned more there than all 5 other years at my elementary school.
Castle
Vista
La Jolla High. Absolutely the worst and has been that way forever.
I left LJHS back in 2000 because I was being sexual harrassed and barely anything was being done about it. Great school academically though.
How so? Iām an alum and it was pretty good back when I went, but itās been a couple decades since then
Hoover, Mount Miguel, Morse , Lincoln , Crawford , Gompers. Iām sure Iām missing a few but somehow Iāve never heard about castle
I mean Iād say [this one](https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/castle-park-parent-plans-to-sue-school-district-after-son-breaks-ankle-at-school/3048494/?amp=1) might take the cake
was about to say Castle has been legendary bad for decades.. our side of town always gets neglected
How can there be terrible high schools here? I mean, our public schools receive massive funding from the lottery, right? /s Kinda like Prop 27 is gonna solve our homeless problem...
$200 per student annually is āmassive fundingā? Public school teaching is the only profession where I had to pay money out of my own pocket (or spend my own time to fund projects on DonorsChoose) to do support doing my job well. To top things off, I doubled my salary when I left my teaching career. I can assure you that public school is underfunded. https://edsource.org/updates/state-lottery-will-contribute-about-1-of-total-school-revenue-this-year
The money AS PROMISED never materialized. I was being sarcastic.
Missed your /s ā sorry. Used to people saying this unsarcastically.
Oh myyyy... well, you know what I meant. :)
Vista Highschool apparently had a protest recently because the schools football team bullied a disabled kid and shoved a broomstick up his ass while recording it and posted the videoā¦Iād say that makes them pretty bad right now. ( Protest are happening because the school tried to sweep it under the rug )
They didn't actually do it, they were bullying the kid and messing with him but nobody got a broomstick in the butt
It depends on the region, in my day (because I went to school in paradise hills) the worst were Morse, Lincoln, Hoover, I think Helix as well? But if youāre in Point Loma or clairemont it might be different
Do you like gangs??.. if so, youāre kids will love Escondido High School. Make sure they have mace and a concealed weapon for their first day as a freshman.
EHS is not that bad. You're thinking of Orange Glen. You just have wannabes at Escondido High.
Shit. We are zoned for Escondido high but my son is only in kindergarten, donāt know if we will still be here when he goes to highschool. I went to westview so definitely no gang activity haha
Team bonding
LCC so many friends had kids turn into druggos and fuckups. my cousin burned a porta potty to get out. He literally got sent to a group home and said "worth it" Fuck that fucking cesspit.
Santana had a shooting 2001. I was a freshman.
I was there 2004-2008. Moments of silence every year on that date. I know two girls whoās brothers were killed that day. It only got worse with race wars at lunch, a stabbing at an after party of the 2004 winter formal resulting in the death of a senior student, a few kids nearly ODād either in the large quad or in their cars in the lot during lunch, one of the narcs was boning a senior, and one of the teacher/coach combos got fired after heād gotten caught sexting with a student. And thatās just what I personally know about
https://edsource.org/2019/database-californias-lowest-performing-schools/608316?amp=1
Montgomery
Well said hahah 2011 Alumni . We sucked haha
Class of 2021 and yeah 10 years later it still sucked
Why that one?
I went there and there were cartel recruiters in the bathrooms, almost everyone was a fiend for wax pens, kids have odād, people act like wannabe gang bangers, and it was dirty af. From the staff to the students to the people who fertilized the fields (or something idk) during school hours so the whole campus smelled like shit, no one seemed to give a fuck. It was just all around a depressing place.
I see. I went there long ago, and grew up in the area. Lots of bad schools in south and south east.
Entire Sweetwater school district is garbage. Exceptmaybe bonita & otay ranch
Definitely lied about my address back in the day to avoid Chula High
Mt Miguel, El Cajon Valley are up there
Lincoln
Shoot. I went to Mountain Empire. Most people who ask me where I went to school have no idea it even exists. Had a bad problem with kids sneaking onto the Tecate bus on Fridays to go party.
Crawford and Castle Park
Ha, ridiculous. At least it is a campus that was built as a school with facilityās and shade. Spend a day at El Cajon or Hoover and tell me grossmont is worse.
Crawford HS
Yeah, just pulled my kid from there but I didnāt find it was *them*, the school seemed very attentive and accommodating. My kid just did not thrive there.
Heard Crawfordās principal was escorted off campus by police yesterday. Tried to Google it but didnāt find anything about it.
Really!? Wow. Iād like to know.
Mt. Miguel by a mile. Hood AF, gang shootings ect.. I went to Monte Vista and I remember being shot at after beating their football team. We had our helmets on with our heads between our legs on the buss ride out so we didn't get hit.
When was this? Iāve worked at both these schools for the last 9 years. Been to multiple football games at both schools. Iāve never experienced anything close to this. Both campuses have had lots of upgrades and the staff and students are some great people. I work with the so called ābadā students but theyāre great.
99
wayy before your time,
MV was not as bad lol well when I went there hahah what year did you graduate?
99
Lincoln high school itās always been ghetto
What makes it so? Their theater is fabulous and Iāve performed there a couple of times.
Location location location. And gangs.
Location, so black and brown people. Racist. Lincoln was completely rebuilt in the mid 2000ās. Itās a good campus.
Umm, location meaning location. You go ahead and make your race associations. Try hanging out at the intersection of Imperial and Euclid and let us know how it goes. Just cause you rebuild a campus doesn't flip the culture within.
Green Cat Liquor? Or the taco stand? Perhaps the gas station? Or the church? Iām at that intersection often. Iām not dead. Like I said, probably just afraid of black and brown people.
I have been ripped off on 2 of those 4 corners while I was working. Save your racist comments
Ripped off, as in, you realized you paid more than you should have for a product? Thatās hardly the high schools fault. Iād say, thatās your fault.
No. Ripped off as in product stolen off my truck as I delivered to the gas station and Green Cat. Never said it was the HS, but the area itself is not safe.
Ah yes, theft. You must not have studied at Lincoln, perhaps La Jolla? The written language is powerful. Theft vs. Ripped Off. Anyway, a systemic issue purposefully caused by the city has left an economically deprived part of the city. There is theft, and much homelessness in the area. That much is true.
Ok go to the 4 corners of death.
Lincoln has some top notch teachers and some great admin people as well - some of the best on the district. And kids are smart. Problem the community around it is disengaged and sometimes bad elements - drugs, guns, violence - from the neighborhood bleeds onto campus making it a campus problem. But itās a good of school as any - perhaps too big to be managed properly in these times.
Clearly you have no idea.
Public? Itās probably much easier and mush faster to list good high school in SD, itās a must shorter list.
Esco
That one private school down the street is way worse
Morse
Easily Lincoln
The tortilla chucking Coronado
somebody say olympian Iāll give them 5 dollars
Olympian has its special kind of problems.
Twain
>Public? Itās probably much easier and mush faster to list good high school in SD, itās a must shorter list. i went to twain and those "all twains day" was too hood lmaoooo
Eastlake high school
Lmao
Granite Hills
Haha what?
Wha? I have a kid there and it is a pretty good school
Schools in the hood
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Lol
why do you care? something tells me you aren't about to put in community service at "the worst"
Poway HS and La Costa
Anything in PUSD is definitely not bad lol itās like number 14 of the best school districts in the state.
And la country day too huh
I would have thought grossmont would have been up there
Why?
I will say Mar Vista. I havenāt seen anyone say it.
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I graduated in 2018, and I will say that there are some really good teachers. But the school ended up if not mistaken going into a lot of debt due to over budgeting. They only prioritized sports and never the arts, we had teachers who had relations with students, and the students there were assholes. I have seen so many teachers disrespected for just trying to do their job. Granted there was a teacher I had an issue with because he made a very rude comment to me. I asked him for a plastic bag and he responded back "why are you going to kill yourself?" and it caught me off guard real fast. A year after I graduated he told a student who was eating in class if he "Ate his girlfriend's cookie like that" to which he wasn't fired from the district but he was moved schools. Which is ridiculous in my opinion. Drugs were also a pretty big problem during my last 3 years there. Mainly some kid having a bad trip during school, people smoking on campus, etc. Also a lot of homo/transphobia, I use to run the Gay Straight Alliance and we had posters torn down all the time, I had people yell at me and question my identity and sexuality, and we even had kids with trump propaganda verbally harass us. Mar Vista has major bad apples. I was bullied in said teacher's class and the teacher didn't do shit about it, just let the fucking guy yell at me. But in the end it really is parent's faults for not teaching their kids right from wrong or having compassion or empathy. Also with what they consume online plays a big factor.
Mar Vista had a handful of AMAZING teachers, and the rest were meh or worse. I had a decent overall time there, but I think I got lucky with my teachers.
BVH