Dee Livermore

Review of Collegiate Academy of Colorado

I don't know if it's still the same as when I was ...

I don't know if it's still the same as when I was there, but I sure hope not. Elementary here was great. Some of the best teachers I've ever had. Middle school wasn't quite as good, but it's a hard age group to teach, I understand that. The real issue was high school.
It was like the administration was trying some new idea that they came up with every month, and they all didn't work. For a while, any student who had less than a B in any class (not less than a C, less than a B) had to go to detention during lunch. Oh, and we couldn't eat in the detention room. In other words, we couldn't each lunch. Yeah, depriving kids of food, that's really going to help the students learn. I snuck some food in for myself on occasion, at least.
I was switched around to different classes in the middle of the semester when neither I nor my parents had been notified. There were some good teachers, but I could tell they were under a lot of stress. Most of the others just seemed to have given up. I had an English "class" where for the whole semester, all the teacher did was read aloud out of a screenplay while three quarters of the class goofed off. On the off chance she asked us to read aloud, I honesty wondered how much of the class even could.
Leaving this school was one of the best things that ever happened to me. "Small class size" isn't much of a plus when a bunch of the kids are delinquents kicked out of other schools and the administration couldn't pass most of the classes.