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Helen A. Fort Middle School
Fort Dix Road. Pemberton, NJ 80681499
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Submitted by: Amber
Im a: Student
Date: 12/01/2008
Helen A. Fort is considered the dunce of Pemberton Township. Many people try to blame the students, when why would you want to learn in a place that is so horrible to begin with? Mainly with concerning how the general running of the school is being controlled. Consequently, the students aren’t learning and excelling their abilities. And what is affecting the school the most is being known for its suspension record. Today I’m going to talk about improving or changing the way this school is being run, block scheduling and ways the children are disciplined.
I’m tired of trying to race from the gym, still trying to put on my shoes, to get to the complete other side of the building. Not only are you late and running, but you keep getting stopped for trying to make it to class on time. Now you’re walking and the security guards keep yelling about hall sweeps, by now you’re mad. If they’re so concerned about us students making it to class on time then extend the time, just a couple of minutes. Most students only miss it by a hallway, not even. Not just change the hallway time but the bathrooms too. I know the 10 minute rule is for our safety, but there are teachers that don’t like to write bathroom passes and you have to wait the next period to go. So if they just cut it down to 5 minutes, that would save the interruption of going to the bathroom because class really wouldn’t have started yet and you wouldn’t miss anything important.
Next issue is block scheduling. W ho would want to sit in a class room for 80 minutes and only learn 40 minutes worth of real information? But then sit in the next class for only 40 minutes and try to learn 80 minutes worth of that subject, because your class is far behind the other periods. Teachers that have the full 80 minutes tend to linger because they have all the time in the world, which makes the class even more boring. The fun classes happen to be the 40 minute ones because you’re so busy and have a lot of work, time flies by so quickly. Why can’t we just go back to a normal middle school schedule? If there is about 7 hours in a normal school day, you can get 7 periods at 60 minutes each, give or take some time. It’s better than having one subject one marking period and a different the next. When you end up spending 2 weeks to review over what you learned 4 months ago, in that subject’s last marking period. We would accomplish so much more on a normal schedule.
Finally on how these students are disciplined. Instead of making this school known for its behavior, turn it around. Turn ISS into such a big deal as OSS. Meaning take away OSS, unless weapons or drugs are involved;
Why let the student have a vacation for fighting, and know that no school work is being done? ISS makes them do the work, unlike detention. Instead of detention make them join some type of after-school activity. Replace their awful behavior with something else that will make them remember not to get in trouble. A lot of the students that fight don’t do anything extra, so they don’t worry about getting kicked off. Make them care about something for once.
Those were just a few problems that need to be addressed quickly. But many things in Helen A. Fort need to be either changed completely or corrected for the better of us students. These people that “care so much” need to get more involved to keep students wanting to actually go to school. Because why would you want to learn in a place that’s so horrible to begin with?
Thank you for taking you time to read this letter,
Sincerely,
Amber Hughes
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Statistics
There are 945 students and 91 teachers at Helen A. Fort Middle School. This means for every teacher there are 10 students.
| |
Teachers |
Students |
Pupils per Teacher |
| School |
91.0 |
945.0 |
10 : 1 |
| State Average |
42.0 |
728.8 |
17 : 1 |
| District Average |
46.5 |
525.4 |
11 : 1 |
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Pemberton Twp
One Egbert Street
6098938141
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Submitted by: Amber
Im a: Student
Date: 12/01/2008
Helen A. Fort is considered the dunce of Pemberton Township. Many people try to blame the students, when why would you want to learn in a place that is so horrible to begin with? Mainly with concerning how the general running of the school is being controlled. Consequently, the students aren’t learning and excelling their abilities. And what is affecting the school the most is being known for its suspension record. Today I’m going to talk about improving or changing the way this school is being run, block scheduling and ways the children are disciplined.
I’m tired of trying to race from the gym, still trying to put on my shoes, to get to the complete other side of the building. Not only are you late and running, but you keep getting stopped for trying to make it to class on time. Now you’re walking and the security guards keep yelling about hall sweeps, by now you’re mad. If they’re so concerned about us students making it to class on time then extend the time, just a couple of minutes. Most students only miss it by a hallway, not even. Not just change the hallway time but the bathrooms too. I know the 10 minute rule is for our safety, but there are teachers that don’t like to write bathroom passes and you have to wait the next period to go. So if they just cut it down to 5 minutes, that would save the interruption of going to the bathroom because class really wouldn’t have started yet and you wouldn’t miss anything important.
Next issue is block scheduling. W ho would want to sit in a class room for 80 minutes and only learn 40 minutes worth of real information? But then sit in the next class for only 40 minutes and try to learn 80 minutes worth of that subject, because your class is far behind the other periods. Teachers that have the full 80 minutes tend to linger because they have all the time in the world, which makes the class even more boring. The fun classes happen to be the 40 minute ones because you’re so busy and have a lot of work, time flies by so quickly. Why can’t we just go back to a normal middle school schedule? If there is about 7 hours in a normal school day, you can get 7 periods at 60 minutes each, give or take some time. It’s better than having one subject one marking period and a different the next. When you end up spending 2 weeks to review over what you learned 4 months ago, in that subject’s last marking period. We would accomplish so much more on a normal schedule.
Finally on how these students are disciplined. Instead of making this school known for its behavior, turn it around. Turn ISS into such a big deal as OSS. Meaning take away OSS, unless weapons or drugs are involved;
Why let the student have a vacation for fighting, and know that no school work is being done? ISS makes them do the work, unlike detention. Instead of detention make them join some type of after-school activity. Replace their awful behavior with something else that will make them remember not to get in trouble. A lot of the students that fight don’t do anything extra, so they don’t worry about getting kicked off. Make them care about something for once.
Those were just a few problems that need to be addressed quickly. But many things in Helen A. Fort need to be either changed completely or corrected for the better of us students. These people that “care so much” need to get more involved to keep students wanting to actually go to school. Because why would you want to learn in a place that’s so horrible to begin with?
Thank you for taking you time to read this letter,
Sincerely,
Amber Hughes
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