Caleb Pulver

Review of Hawthorn Academy

I attended this school from 2nd grade to 9th grade...

I attended this school from 2nd grade to 9th grade. And I can tell you those 7 years were the longest years of my life. For starters let me tell you what this school lacks... good teachers, good admin, money, fun, how to teach kids, how to handle kids, how to be a charter school just for starters. Middle school here was very small and a very unique experience. There were like 250 kids in the middle school so if you don't like them, you have to stick with them. There were some good teachers and some bad teachers in the middle school. For starters, their science program has lacked a good teacher since this school has started. Almost every year a new science teacher has been hired and they are all awful. One year, we had a teacher that was just terrible and was rumored to be smoking an e-cig in class and I would not doubt it. Now, I wont point any names but the middle school 9th grade English teacher is a little over the top. Her assignments are way to hard and time consuming for middle school and are just unfair. Everything is just guessing because the lessons were not organized and poorly explained. I can see the dedication to the job but in the wrong way. For the administration, they have some good ones and some bad ones. I like what they have done the past couple of years with the admin and I like how their trying to change it up a little. One thing that I didn't like and plenty of moms and teachers did not like is the overall administrator she has let no fun into this school. Everyone knows middle school kids are pretty hard to teach, and the teachers take that to the extreme. There is a lot of fighting in this school and it's mainly because of all the useless rules that make it so. I think if this school adopts rules from other ones that are actually reasonable then everyone would be better off. Overall, this school was pretty terrible for most of the time. Sure, there was some fun parts that lasted until the staff killed the fun. I hope this school can change for the better.