Lakeridge Middle School

"issa okay school just some teachers can't stand me and I can't stand them which makes it harder to work with them. whenever i asked a question or asked for help to this one teacher she'd always shut me up and wouldn't even listen to half of the things i would say. Also we should be able to listen to music in ANY advisory class and THE LIBARY!!!!"

"Came for soccer tournament. Grass is decent and field level. Convenient for driving in from highway"

"It is very good, but the office staff are...horr...fabulous so I give it a four. ps. i did not say anything cause if I said anything else i would get erm...expe...a reward for being inappropriate and get a few weeks off!"

"Academically, the school is doing well (aside from the push that students have to get into higher level classes). Lakeridge is known for having high state testing scores and graduation rates. Clearly, the issue is not so much with academics and curriculum, but instead with the teachers and staff in the way that they handle things. Im not sure if it's just adults in general, but these issues definitely apply to many of the people at the school. Teachers and staff are people. They were children just like the middle schoolers are now. But for some reason they seem to forget what it's like to be a kid. They do not at all think for even a second that maybe somebody might actually be going through something. It is easy for them to be inconsiderate with children because they are no longer in that position, but it seems like they don't really try to understand. I won't name names (obviously), but the people who work at this school make decisions based on the assumption that kids have it easy- they do less work, they don't have to pay taxes or be self-sufficient, etc. However, just because someone else is dealing with different problems than you does not make their issues any less severe or important, and the staff do not accept that as a fact. I do not understand how the adults can be so oblivious to the world around them. Seriously, do they really think that misbehaving students act the way they do because they think it's fun? Kids who have problems in school always have larger problems outside of school. There is always a reason. If they knew what was really going on with students who they lecture and punish each day, I have reason to believe that they would not treat them and their issues the way that they do. And I know this because they treat students who they know are being bullied or have issues outside of school with pity (even though they do not actually take any action to help the student). And I know that if one of the students they give such a hard time were to kill themselves, they would only consider how they treated them once they're dead. As the saying goes, no one cares unless you're pretty or dead."

"I would give it more but... there are some ups and down in this school... Sure it's one of the better schools and most of the teachers are nice, mostly the one's I've had over the past two years, but a lot of the staff is overprotective... We are middle schoolers for crying out loud! On days where there was snow not even sticking they shut down outside. The parents are afraid something will happen and are making this place more protective than rivergrove... Which isn't necessarily a good thing. I like some of the teachers, Mr. Stoddard, Tesar, Sweet, Ryan, Ms. Zurcher, etc., all of the teachers I've had until seventh grade are all pretty nice and fair. But the school overall is just overprotective."