Schenectady high school

I transferred to Schenectady High School as a junior and graduated there. I was not engaged and the curriculum for most of the various studies were classes I took in middle school or as a freshman. I ended up skipping over 40 days each year, 50 classes total each semester, and I still got my regents diploma and graduated in the high 80's. I'm very disappointed with how the school pushes everyone along. Students I skipped with expressed that they didn't learn material the way that they were taught material, and the staff didn't adapt nor were the counselors and administrative staff concerned. Most got given a passing grade, hardly learning the material, and now struggle today.

I hope things change. This is not the only school that does this. It's a national epidemic. I'm just a little baffled that a once great political city is not turning kids in productive members of society with any know-how of common practices.

I grew up going, first to Lincoln, then Brandy wine Ave, then onto Nott Terrace High. The Schenectady school system gave me the best start in my life, and I look back with thanksgiving. Long may it continue to do so.

Good education, variety of classes, diverse teachers. I had my best years in this school. The teachers are respectable, and the staff actually care. You can't change the student attitude of course, but that goes with any school.

It's fun there, some of the teachers are really nice and actually care about their students while some don't. The food could be better though. And resources to educate the students could be better. That school needs better funding in order to connect with the students. It's gets treated like trash, when the education department could give them more money to do more stuff and get new uniforms for the sports that are there.

Basically it's not fair that the department of education wants to treat the school like trash but make all the other schools look good. The teachers actually want to have better things for their students, like newer computers and laptops. They need that.

Despite a negative connotation from the neighboring districts, Schenectady High School can be a simply amazing place to learn, If you know where to find the available resources, rather than wallowing in the drug abuse, fighting, and other problems that this district is a home to. The student body is one of the most diverse and beautiful in the area, and is filled dedicated students who love their school, and for the most part the teachers are kind and attentive to student's needs. Plus, the variety of possible classes is amazing, along with wide selection of extracurriculars, highlights include the roots club and the ever wonderful blue roses theater company.(Not to mention the prestigious IB program the SHS is home to). Even with all of it's issues this school is severely underrated and a thoroughly wonderful place of education if you put in as much effort as you want to get out.

I went to this school when it was Linton. It was great then and even greater now!!! For all the people who like to bash the teachers and administrators about the so called 90% of the population being disrespectful and like to fight?? Please remember these attitudes have to be corrected at home!! It is not the teachers job to make sure your child is behaving in a descent manner it is the parents. the teachers here go above and beyond to help all these children. cant you go above and beyond to set an example for your kids and teach them dignity, respect, and to love all those who surround them? when this happens the 90%will be great kids and the 10% will just be.#FAMILYVALUES

My daughter is a freshman and she's had a very good first year! She'll be in IB courses next year which is a great opportunity for her. I'm very happy that her academic experience and options aren't limited by where the school is located.

GOOD SCHOOL NICE TEACHERS OKAY KIDS HIGH ACADEMIC STANDARDS THEY STOLE MY CATS AND FRIENDS