Huntsville High School

I would give this school and district a 0 if I could. The students run the school, and APs refuse to help in discipline and put it back on the teachers to more or less parent these kids. Drugs and fights are rampant here and it is not safe. Principals hide in their offices all day, the cops are nowhere to be found. Teacher turnover is super high and our students are mentally and academically at a 6th grade level at best. No funding to anything that isn’t sports. DO NOT WORK HERE DO NOT SEND YOUR KIDS HERE

The teachers. I haven't had as many unpleasant experiences with the other staff as I've had with teachers. For one, a good amount of the teachers rotate year to year (probably because of the way they're treated by both their students and their superiors)- meaning there are always new teachers. New teachers are, in fact, new to teaching, and therefore don't really have the curriculum for the class planned for the year, nor do they have a grasp on how to manage a high school classroom. The classes led by the new teachers tend to be more unruly, on account of being new to the whole teaching thing. Having unruly classes mean that the teacher has to spend more time disciplining (if they even try anymore) than actually instructing. I've had several classes with this issue. Another problem with the teachers is the lack of them- or, at least, the lack of teachers with any knowledge of what they're teaching. I had a Pre-AP biology class where the teacher was trained in physics- and was intent on teaching it too. We went the first four weeks or so learning the wrong thing- then, when the said teacher "retired", we were stuck without a teacher. By the time we got at least a permanent substitute, the Pre-AP classes were behind the level. I feel like HISD could erase this issue if they could appreciate the teachers more, so they wouldn't leave every few years.