Jonathan Levin High School Of Media And Communications

I am a 17 year old Senior at this school and i will give a reasonable review of this school. This school its not too bad but it could be a whole lot better
The principal , Nashib Hoxha, is well useless. Every time we want to have some sort of type of activity he always answers no because of the safety of the student body. I can understand that so that's why we offer reasonable solutions, but, he still denies any possible, anything. The principals inability to answer with a justifiable answer and with repetitive rejections and excuses makes me think that hes just too cheap to organize simple events such as a School Dance, School Clubs, and well any after school activities.Something that i cant belive is that our annual Shakespeare festival was canceled because the irresponsible staff couldn't determine WHAT DAYS IT RAINED.The campus, in which the school is situated, has metal detectors...
It really is a violation against student rights and its insulting to us, insinuating that we will just come an shoot up the place or stab everyone to death, of course the school being in THE BRONX i guess its not such a bad idea to have the metal detectors.

At leas half of the security staff is mean to people or at least to me, whenever they tell you to do something and i ask why, they figure that were not important enough to know; for example they asked me to fill out a lunch meal paper and i said that i didn't need it because i eat out and at home they still wanted me to fill it so i asked why they didn't want to answer me, turns out that the school (or the principal) receives money for every student that signs that paper. Its a reasonable reason but in angers me that it wasn't mentioned to me. Something that the campus loves to do is run fire drills there's nothing wrong with that, that's actually a very positive thing, most of the time the only reason they do it is because its a Friday and want students to clear out the campus because they know they wont comeback, i also get that, but it really gives the image that the school really doesn't like their students.

Something that really bothers me is the amount of foreign teachers are in the school.
The problem with foreign teachers is that they are sometimes incredibly hard to understand , specially in math , and science classes in which you need to know important and complicated equations which became 4 times more complicated with teachers that can barely teach which makes students that can barely understand and do worse in class more than they should.

Well this school could be worse than others
A few teachers in this school actually care a lot about their student, staying after school for tutoring, helping them out with homework
The school also provides the student with free uniform for school days and gym classes. The school allows its students to wear casual clothing on Fridays. The school also provides use of computers such as Apple desktops and laptops and dell laptops and provides use of printers. It also provides use of filming equipment such as video cameras, microphones, video tape, tripods, and photo cameras. Breakfast and lunch is served everyday school day for free and also sells food to people whose income is too high to receive free food. This school also has a website which provides with almost useless information and hasn't been updated in a long time but will be updated upon the first moth of school this September 09.This school also provides full fare and half fare metro cards for students who qualify.

Overall the school is not so bad , has things that makes it stand out from other schools such as film and journalism classes. This school would probably be better off being a whole school and a not being in Taft a campus that holds 6 different schools. Though this schools not so bad i really wish i had been put in a better one.

Jonathan Levin HS is the best HS anybody could ever attend. As in anybody I mean students, parents, teachers, and even staff members. The teachers show love and care for each and every student, trying really hard to keep students in the right paths. Not many students succeed but others keep. Many teachers stay there until the end making sure everyone of their students passes or even graduates. Some of the advanced placement teachers give the Juniors a lot of work but this is because they are preparing the students for the SAT's, ACT's, and the college-coarse that they offer. Many teachers are devoted to their jobs and don't miss a day of school just to see their student succeed. This school has heart and determination. The only thing I believe this school is missing is a little school spirit and having the students a little more involved in school and community activities.