Cal and Walt Wester Middle School

The thing is, this school is amazing. I absolutely love it and couldn't have asked for a better learning environment for me to spend my middle school years in. I absolutely adore my teachers, and I feel the kids here are really well-rounded and treat each other pretty well (even the jocks aren't too bad). Some kids cause trouble here, but all kids/teens do that, and many do it in an innocent (but nevertheless mischievous) way.

Here's the problem. Some admin and elective teachers aren't the best. The admin here are nice, but they don't always step in when necessary, and ironically, can get too knit-picky sometimes. I feel like they just don't support and care for us well enough to be considered "sufficient". Some of the elective teachers are also oblivious, and just ignore obvious concerns or problems presented in different situations. Also, it seems like they don't understand anything outside their little world, and don't give any thought to other classes students may have. This goes for many teachers, such as CORE class teachers, who sometimes don't consider the scheduled assignments and workload given to us from other classes. This brings us to another problem... scheduling. This school has awful schedules, and many extracurricular activities have vague directions attached to them, which doesn't help at all. In fact, the broadcast team (that I'm part of) suffers much of this scheduling abuse. Our team doesn't get nearly enough scheduling information about different events to prepare correctly to film them. broadcast is at the bottom of the barrel in priority for the school, and always gets neglected as if an afterthought. Our emails sent always get answers long after they matter, and any requests we make are answered warily or vaguely. Back to scheduling... the events at this school sometimes don't line up, and the timings of the different assignments given to us don't always come at good times and aren't distributed throughout the year properly. This causes a lot of stress for students who have to do a lot of work on one day just so the next day would be a little easier to handle. For example, there will be days when we have absolutely no homework, and then the next day--BAM! We get 5 hours of homework to do in one day. It's really scary every day to go to school because you won't know how much homework you're going to get. The homework given at this school can be unnecessary and excessive. Like, some of the assignments we get here waste our time more than teaching us something at all. Lastly, this school doesn't have the money (or doesn't budget the money correctly enough) to replace much of the old equipment and technology we have here, and I find this bothering. Frisco ISD is pretty rich! So, what's preventing the money from coming where it's needed direly at this school? It seems like a conundrum to me, and I feel that it prevents us from having a better experience we could have had if only we had newer stuff.

But other than these complaints, I THINK THIS SCHOOL IS AMAZING AND DESERVES MORE RECOGNITION!