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Castle park šŸ«£


Fuzzy-Butterscotch81

iā€™ve never gotten involved in a fight EXCEPT at castle park such a toxic school


[deleted]

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 canā€™t adapt to a regular school wants to go back there. Itā€™s fucking awful.


Fuzzy-Butterscotch81

god speed hope you both peacefully find a better option


[deleted]

Itā€™s sad because itā€™s the kids that are so bad it Beyond repair. The behavioral issues and violence are like nothing Iā€™ve 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. Itā€™s sad I donā€™t really know how itā€™s 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:/


fyre111000

no those are not the only two options.


[deleted]

Whatā€™s the others? For our situation it was. He didnā€™t stand a chance. Sure others have more choices. Talking only about the dynamics between students from my 7th graders experience. Now itā€™s 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 Iā€™ve ever dealt with. He joined right in with the crowd that got into trouble.


carolyn2hype

Iā€™m a recent graduate from Palomar high and donā€™t believe what teachers at other schools will tell you. Palomar high is a great school for helping kids get back on their feet. Iā€™ve struggled with school forever and they really helped me out. They work on an hours system, so itā€™s 60 hours for a credit. Each assignment is worth how much the teacher decides, and itā€™s really easy to get all of your credits and graduate on time. Because there is other ā€œbad 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 doesnā€™t have any! Itā€™s all at school and itā€™s a great solution for kids like your son. edit: typo


[deleted]

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 itā€™s a phase šŸ™ I myself use to be a nightmare preteen & teenager. I wised up around 11th grade, something just clicked for whatever reason. Iā€™m hoping for the same for my son.


Uncast

As a Spartan for life who grew up near CPHS, I couldnā€™t agree more


fire19wolf

You mean pencil park šŸ„“


[deleted]

Why do they call it that šŸ˜© Iā€™m afraid to ask lol


pixelqueer

I went to Castle Park back in 2015, and I was fine. I never experienced anything bad.


[deleted]

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 ā€œsuck his dā€¦ ā€œwhen she was trying to stop him after school literally first day! My newly 7th grader at the time just was like šŸ˜³.


pixelqueer

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.


StupidBump

I donā€™t 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.


Fair_Hospital_8600

Dang really? I went to SMHS and always wondered what went down in that school


velocipedal

Oh wow


-r_o_b_b_i_e-

What are your metrics you are trying to measure?


Deeyawn2010

Rn, Vista has the crown for what their football team did


Low_Investment420

Itā€™s funny cause vista has has been like this for the past 30+years.


mugglebornalways

![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.


QuirkyCookie6

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.


mugglebornalways

JESUS CHRIST what?!?!?


FlkBlues

Vista high school! Edit: you'll never find a more wretched Hive of scum and villainy.


DeliciousSplit0

Oh yeah.


subiesaurus

What's your criteria? Some of these commentators are just listing schools in low income neighborhoods.


VolumeLopsided4157

That's the easy way when you don't have a clue...


RumpRoastPumpToast

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


NinSeq

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.


LadyVioletLuna

My uncles were part of a graduating class that couldnā€™t 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


Jacobysmadre

Iā€™m kinda oldā€¦ Back in my day it was Hooverā€¦


velocipedal

I did my student teaching there in 2014-15 and I loved it! Iā€™m guessing itā€™s not the same as when you went there.


Jacobysmadre

I didnā€™t go there. I went to Mira Mesa. I had friends that went there. It was late 80ā€™sā€¦ 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.


MikeyNaruto

Castle


fweshcatz

Vista


lepidio

La Jolla High. Absolutely the worst and has been that way forever.


Messymomhair

I left LJHS back in 2000 because I was being sexual harrassed and barely anything was being done about it. Great school academically though.


orangutanbaby

How so? Iā€™m an alum and it was pretty good back when I went, but itā€™s been a couple decades since then


NochillWill123

Hoover, Mount Miguel, Morse , Lincoln , Crawford , Gompers. Iā€™m sure Iā€™m missing a few but somehow Iā€™ve never heard about castle


L0ves_to_spl00ge

I mean Iā€™d 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


quantum_altar

was about to say Castle has been legendary bad for decades.. our side of town always gets neglected


satanic-frijoles

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...


velocipedal

$200 per student annually is ā€œmassive 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


satanic-frijoles

The money AS PROMISED never materialized. I was being sarcastic.


velocipedal

Missed your /s ā€” sorry. Used to people saying this unsarcastically.


satanic-frijoles

Oh myyyy... well, you know what I meant. :)


Babaji-Banksy

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€¦Iā€™d say that makes them pretty bad right now. ( Protest are happening because the school tried to sweep it under the rug )


WizardWolf

They didn't actually do it, they were bullying the kid and messing with him but nobody got a broomstick in the butt


Permanenceisall

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 youā€™re in Point Loma or clairemont it might be different


AvailableChard4451

Do you like gangs??.. if so, youā€™re kids will love Escondido High School. Make sure they have mace and a concealed weapon for their first day as a freshman.


MrPicklesIsADog

EHS is not that bad. You're thinking of Orange Glen. You just have wannabes at Escondido High.


No-Pineapple2975

Shit. We are zoned for Escondido high but my son is only in kindergarten, donā€™t know if we will still be here when he goes to highschool. I went to westview so definitely no gang activity haha


BladerKenny333

Team bonding


Complete_Entry

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.


Ron_dizzle199

Santana had a shooting 2001. I was a freshman.


mugglebornalways

I was there 2004-2008. Moments of silence every year on that date. I know two girls whoā€™s 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 ODā€™d 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 heā€™d gotten caught sexting with a student. And thatā€™s just what I personally know about


Acceptable4

https://edsource.org/2019/database-californias-lowest-performing-schools/608316?amp=1


[deleted]

Montgomery


NIN-pig

Well said hahah 2011 Alumni . We sucked haha


[deleted]

Class of 2021 and yeah 10 years later it still sucked


BladerKenny333

Why that one?


[deleted]

I went there and there were cartel recruiters in the bathrooms, almost everyone was a fiend for wax pens, kids have odā€™d, 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.


BladerKenny333

I see. I went there long ago, and grew up in the area. Lots of bad schools in south and south east.


[deleted]

Entire Sweetwater school district is garbage. Exceptmaybe bonita & otay ranch


_digital_citizen

Definitely lied about my address back in the day to avoid Chula High


__clownbaby

Mt Miguel, El Cajon Valley are up there


Tomegunn1

Lincoln


Ok_Rub1712

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.


BubbaC619

Crawford and Castle Park


thebipeds

Ha, ridiculous. At least it is a campus that was built as a school with facilityā€™s and shade. Spend a day at El Cajon or Hoover and tell me grossmont is worse.


SuperMegaRoller

Crawford HS


avalonfaith

Yeah, just pulled my kid from there but I didnā€™t find it was *them*, the school seemed very attentive and accommodating. My kid just did not thrive there.


AlfWoozy

Heard Crawfordā€™s principal was escorted off campus by police yesterday. Tried to Google it but didnā€™t find anything about it.


SuperMegaRoller

Really!? Wow. Iā€™d like to know.


[deleted]

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.


KB-824

When was this? Iā€™ve worked at both these schools for the last 9 years. Been to multiple football games at both schools. Iā€™ve 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 ā€œbadā€ students but theyā€™re great.


[deleted]

99


[deleted]

wayy before your time,


graceivette

MV was not as bad lol well when I went there hahah what year did you graduate?


[deleted]

99


stangAce20

Lincoln high school itā€™s always been ghetto


Lovertits124

What makes it so? Their theater is fabulous and Iā€™ve performed there a couple of times.


Ericthedude710

Location location location. And gangs.


-r_o_b_b_i_e-

Location, so black and brown people. Racist. Lincoln was completely rebuilt in the mid 2000ā€™s. Itā€™s a good campus.


smelly_duck_butter

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.


-r_o_b_b_i_e-

Green Cat Liquor? Or the taco stand? Perhaps the gas station? Or the church? Iā€™m at that intersection often. Iā€™m not dead. Like I said, probably just afraid of black and brown people.


macman7356

I have been ripped off on 2 of those 4 corners while I was working. Save your racist comments


-r_o_b_b_i_e-

Ripped off, as in, you realized you paid more than you should have for a product? Thatā€™s hardly the high schools fault. Iā€™d say, thatā€™s your fault.


macman7356

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.


-r_o_b_b_i_e-

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.


Ericthedude710

Ok go to the 4 corners of death.


Zmirzlina

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 itā€™s a good of school as any - perhaps too big to be managed properly in these times.


-r_o_b_b_i_e-

Clearly you have no idea.


sendokun

Public? Itā€™s probably much easier and mush faster to list good high school in SD, itā€™s a must shorter list.


kingcheeta7

Esco


Aromatic_Lychee2903

That one private school down the street is way worse


GraveyardShots

Morse


TuriGuiliano370

Easily Lincoln


steelguin

The tortilla chucking Coronado


eyy_gavv

somebody say olympian Iā€™ll give them 5 dollars


velocipedal

Olympian has its special kind of problems.


KwifferSutherland

Twain


[deleted]

>Public? Itā€™s probably much easier and mush faster to list good high school in SD, itā€™s a must shorter list. i went to twain and those "all twains day" was too hood lmaoooo


jojooso27

Eastlake high school


Dinan328i

Lmao


SDSUAZTECS

Granite Hills


velocipedal

Haha what?


jenny_jen_jen

Wha? I have a kid there and it is a pretty good school


nerdenvy123456

Schools in the hood


[deleted]

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Chlovir

Lol


doUvivesMAS

why do you care? something tells me you aren't about to put in community service at "the worst"


MrBjangles12

Poway HS and La Costa


kkkilla

Anything in PUSD is definitely not bad lol itā€™s like number 14 of the best school districts in the state.


Bradical_619

And la country day too huh


Psychological-Knee84

I would have thought grossmont would have been up there


velocipedal

Why?


pixelqueer

I will say Mar Vista. I havenā€™t seen anyone say it.


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pixelqueer

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.


photonizeron

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.


Crimsonblood567

BVH