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I can’t say that every experience I had was a bad one. Sometimes, I had teachers who genuinely cared about how well I did and who cared a lot about helping me. I truly appreciate my experiences with each and every one of these people, as I believe you can work around a lot of (although not always all of,) problems you have in a class or with a teacher’s style or with the course work when a teacher works with you. There were a lot of things that could be worse at Langley. As far as I was aware, there weren’t any gangs, and Langley could have had a worse problem with drugs. However, there was a lot of things that could have been greatly improved.
Most of the time, me and others I have spoken to felt that waiting to see which class you were in was waiting to see how bad of a teacher you got. Most of my teachers did not care how I did in their class, or care to help me when I asked. Sometimes I would constantly go to teachers with questions only to not receive any aid, advice, or answers. Sometimes these teachers seemed upset at me for asking them (during their study hall hours!) for bothering them for help. As an extreme example of this: once I was absent during the introductory unit in Chem class, and when I went in to ask my teacher for help on what I missed, my teacher said that they didn’t want to teach the lesson again and that I should figure out how to do it myself. I don’t feel that this is normal or appropriate. In other classes with far better teachers, I’ve had teachers offer to go over things quickly with me after school and such.
Some of the staff members were extremely rude, and would often take their bad day (or life) out on me. Once when I was sick, I had a staff member accuse me that I was faking my ailments and asked me if I was doing it to receive attention or to avoid the pain of being bullied or friendless (I don’t know why they made such a stretch over me being sick.) I had another staff member yell at me for five minutes over an imagined slight that I apologized for, and basically told me I was a rude person that didn’t care about other people. They also proceeded to ask me what was “wrong” with me. I had another staff member, who was checking me attendance, accuse me of changing my note that said I was leaving early from 1:30pm to 2:30pm (why would I change my note to make me leave school later????) I was mostly fine with them calling my parent to check that the note was correct, but I felt like it was a bit much that this staff member then asked if the person she spoke to was “really my parent” and told me that it had better be.
The students at Langley weren’t particularly a highlight. It’s true that a lot of them are snotty and rude. One time during my freshman year, we had a teacher who was not effective but who was trying. The students in my class for some reason decided it would be appropriate to disrupt the lesson to tell the teacher that they couldn’t teach, and complain about their grades. I’m sure in many ways the students could have been worse. For the most part people kept to themselves and their friend groups, socially. People were extremely self conscious, and sometimes rude to other people, but it could have been a lot worse.
I believe someone pointed out that Langley mostly cares about their AP students and leaves the students in non-APs to fend for themselves, and that is definitely true.
Most of the time, me and others I have spoken to felt that waiting to see which class you were in was waiting to see how bad of a teacher you got. Most of my teachers did not care how I did in their class, or care to help me when I asked. Sometimes I would constantly go to teachers with questions only to not receive any aid, advice, or answers. Sometimes these teachers seemed upset at me for asking them (during their study hall hours!) for bothering them for help. As an extreme example of this: once I was absent during the introductory unit in Chem class, and when I went in to ask my teacher for help on what I missed, my teacher said that they didn’t want to teach the lesson again and that I should figure out how to do it myself. I don’t feel that this is normal or appropriate. In other classes with far better teachers, I’ve had teachers offer to go over things quickly with me after school and such.
Some of the staff members were extremely rude, and would often take their bad day (or life) out on me. Once when I was sick, I had a staff member accuse me that I was faking my ailments and asked me if I was doing it to receive attention or to avoid the pain of being bullied or friendless (I don’t know why they made such a stretch over me being sick.) I had another staff member yell at me for five minutes over an imagined slight that I apologized for, and basically told me I was a rude person that didn’t care about other people. They also proceeded to ask me what was “wrong” with me. I had another staff member, who was checking me attendance, accuse me of changing my note that said I was leaving early from 1:30pm to 2:30pm (why would I change my note to make me leave school later????) I was mostly fine with them calling my parent to check that the note was correct, but I felt like it was a bit much that this staff member then asked if the person she spoke to was “really my parent” and told me that it had better be.
The students at Langley weren’t particularly a highlight. It’s true that a lot of them are snotty and rude. One time during my freshman year, we had a teacher who was not effective but who was trying. The students in my class for some reason decided it would be appropriate to disrupt the lesson to tell the teacher that they couldn’t teach, and complain about their grades. I’m sure in many ways the students could have been worse. For the most part people kept to themselves and their friend groups, socially. People were extremely self conscious, and sometimes rude to other people, but it could have been a lot worse.
I believe someone pointed out that Langley mostly cares about their AP students and leaves the students in non-APs to fend for themselves, and that is definitely true.