Dripping Springs Middle School

"This place is awful. From my experience the teachers here could care less about what you think, or how you feel. With only a week left of school in my second year here, I am going to tell you how I feel. Problem number one: The amount of awful things students, teachers, and any other faculty do here is insane. Whenever these issues happen they are also overlooked. I have witnessed many racist acts and seen no punishment dealt out except a lunch detention. I get we live in the hill country and all, but seriously? At least give a slight punishment. Problem number two: There is no forum for communication unless you have the balls to talk to the principal, this is a huge problem due to the amount of hate crimes, and bullying that goes on in this school. Sure on the outside they may be a “No Place For Hate” school, but that’s just a a cover up for the nasty things they put in here. Problem number three: Food, I know it may not seem a big problem, but it is. How would you like sitting in a room all day, doing nothing, and then as a refresher you get over greased, disgusting pizza. Now try that for an entire year three years in a row. Sure there are other things but they are just as bad. The only good meal is this Asian chicken thing which only comes once every two weeks. (Everybody raves about it but the school seems to make the wait longer for good food anyways) Problem number four: Drugs, everybody gets away with this, sure it’s fun and all for the students but it’s hurting them and they don’t even know it. Many incidents in this school revolving drugs and not a way to stop it in sight, here I sit hoping that high school can sort my grade out. Problem number four: Oh man oh man, this one is a biggie, teaching and learning. Everything I’ve so far listed absolutely hammers down on the way that is as student learn, a mix of greasy pizza, kids being awful, and everybody pressuring each other into bad decisions, and now add having to learn an hour thirty class with a teacher who absolutely ignores, insults, and doesn’t care about students. It’s hard let me tell you that. The only way to express the way you feel without getting in trouble is to right an anonymous review on google maps, (which I’m pretty sure they blocked on the school WiFi so I shouldn’t be writing this) it’s sad our voices mean nothing. I can’t even text my dad or mom this WiFi is so bad. Problem number five: While on the topic of WiFi let’s bring up VPN or “Proxy.” There was once a little thing called VPN which allowed me to text my mom or dad if I needed something, or if I wanted to look something up. Now that they banned everybody off of the school WiFi if they use the VPN, I can’t talk to my mom, my dad, I can’t look things up, or send news to my friends. They’re excuse was that kids were looking up bad things, but surely if the school was “no place for hate” or “drug free” we wouldn’t be having these uses of VPN. Every issue I have ever encountered, has been this schools fault. Sorry I had to cut it short, gotta go eat my greasy pizza."

"Hmm, what to say? Service was terrible. There was only one upside, there wasn’t a fixed theme. The employees were rude, and of them even searched through my bag. That goes against my rights and the constitution, (4th amendment). That place gave me anxiety and depression and a will to die. The other customers were impolite, no, wait. More than that, they physically beat me up, whenever i went there, and called me names. I don’t recommend this place to anyone."

"Food was terrible our weightier was rude. She was also wearing a weird hair thing"

"Life is good, school is just a little bit worse."