I really dont like this school. Teachers suck, students are incredibly toxic. It makes me sad that I heard this school used to be good but not anymore I guess. If hell exists I imagine it to be something like this but in a really poor neighborhood and with nicer teachers.

This school is so wonderful and the staff are so kind. The school is very clean and has a beautiful campus!EDIT:I changed my mind there are way to many fights and I try my hardest to stay at this school with my friends but I am not going to risk my saftey at school

I went to this school and it wasnt as good as said. the lunch area was dirty, the food had bugs in it, the staff was somewhat decent yet they werent good with discipline. the principle is an awful one and doesnt control the students. i had a problem with the school and she responded well your never here so the students sometimes bring things that arent appropriate to even think about bringing. the principle did nothing about that. would i attend this school again? absolutely not however, some teachers were very respectful and kind. others? not so much.

I had a bad, and stressful time here at South Lake and I dont think it would be the best school to attend. First off, the homework system seems pretty unorganized. Its almost as if the teachers have no communication whatsoever when it comes to balancing the load of homework that us students receive. Ive had many experiences where I would have an important project or test that I would have most of my focus on during the week, but then my attention would be shifted to one teacher giving a workload of normal homework. For example from my experiences, I once had a giant English test that I needed to get a high score on to improve my grade. I spent most of my time studying for that while trying to do my other homework quickly, but all of a sudden my Math teacher gives me an 6 page packet of math problems (both the front and back pages of each piece of paper). I felt completely overwhelmed and (this may not affect other people but...) added with the stress that I didnt have enough time to complete it while getting the right amount of sleep I need (because of extracurricular activities). Second, at the end of the year I felt that the teachers were rushing us to finish the subjects that they needed to teach us. For example from another one of my experiences, we had only three weeks left of school (plus finals) but my English teacher decided that we were going to read one more book for our last unit. Throughout that whole unit, everything seemed rushed and it seemed like projects, that we would do if we had the time, were being left out. It put a toll on me, as I was struggling to prepare for finals plus learning all this new information in a short span of time. Finally, the last problem with this school was the staff. The vice-principal and some teachers were pretty rude towards students. Sometimes for me, it was hard to communicate to some teachers for help on homework, studying, or extra credit to improve my grades. I also felt like the staff kept blaming us students on problems that they dont even try to fix themselves. They would just give us a long lesson on their motto Take care of yourself. Take care of others. Take care of our school. without doing anything to actually stop the problem. There was also a problem where some of my friends and I felt a bit unsafe on campus because of the many fights and bullying that would occur during lunch, snack, after school, or even in class. The school also, always seemed to complain about our school having a trash problem (which we did). But as I looked around one day after the problem was addressed, it was because kids were taking perfectly normal food and throwing it around. As I watched this, no one from the staff team seemed to stop it either. There was even an incident where a half-eaten pizza was thrown at one of my friends. When I looked around for an adult, I saw the janitor just staring at us but not doing anything to stop this behavior. The only time I did see him try to stop it was when my friends and I where throwing trash at each other that we would clean up later. He came up to us, furiously, and told us to clean it up right away. We did, but when I looked back towards him staring at the many other kids throwing trash, he did nothing. It seemed as though we were the only kids that were caught (and it was our first and only time doing this type of behavior as well). I hope that the school can take all this into consideration and the many problems that other people have announced here.

Im a 8th grader, this school is terrible, a lot of the teachers are nice but some are not. To much homework six pieces a night , no phones but the teachers use there phones, no gum. I always get in trouble and I do nothing. I got bullied last year, and the assistant principal is rude, and they have no YouTube and they use YouTube all the time. I recommend dont go to this school

I find this place...odd, some staff is amazing! But others are completely horrible. Ive met the school campus helper and he didnt seem to care about students at all! I asked him if I could go to the Lost n Found to look for my favorite sweater (Which was past down for a generation) And he just said its probably in the trash thrown away, awfully rude, and the only decent teachers I see that actually care about their students are Mr. Leavey, Mrs. Le, and Coach Doan. The others they look like they dont enjoy their job or something since usually they show favoritism and some of the staff are putting up a worse job at doing gossip and being a role model for the students. Plus the staff themselves doesnt seem to care if people use foul language and theyd just bring it up in the next announcement, plus schedules are so confusing, they dont exactly show where you need to go, Teachers are awfully silent and dont want to even help a student and sometimes I wonder if they need hearing aids because some just walk past me while I yell their name and they still dont come over, the reason I even came here is because my elementary friends came over and my parents and I decided to pay a visit and I ended getting enrolled, plus we had the proper paperwork yet we still had difficulties getting into the school and I had to miss out 3 weeks of school and I never got to make it up, Teachers dont help you with late work or even let you turn it in at all unless your talking about Mrs. Hanna who is a great teacher but the role models of the school write all sorts of horrible things on school property and I just feel bad for the good teachers who just get all this negativity from their students, I mean, kids learn more about gossip than the classrooms, id rather go back to Westpark than this school.

Here is a preview of how you can get in trouble in South Lake(Just an FYI: we have a drinking fountain between the MPR and the Lunch Line. And the Band uses the MPR)When youre in the lunch lines DO NOT just walk up here and ask to drink water, And if you got caught and I ask you what you were doing then you start youre sentence with I was just.. You will just be sent to Mr Kettes(Assistant Principal) office and you will receive a detention.-Anonymous TeacherWhen you start a calm argument with one of the teachers..I Dare you to argue with me right now-TeacherHonestly though. Im going to be honest here. The school is Amazing.. I couldnt wish for a better school. But the thing is, I feel that the teachers focus on academics rather than students feelings. The Science and Math departments are just Amazing.. And the teachers there are super nice. But the sad part is, teachers only treat you well if you get on their good side. If you dont youre basically invisible to them.Let me give you some personal experience: Our class was reading a story , me and my friend love to read ahead, so as I was talking to him about the story there was a bunch of spoilers. The teacher overheard my conversation and also a bunch of students did.. the teacher kicked me out then I apologized for creating a disturbance then the teacher says this: I dont care if youre sorry And for the next month or 2, the teacher treated me like crap! I was so sad and I was on the verge of crying.In conclusion. I would like to say that this school is good academically, but, not so much attitude-wise.(I am trying to appear anonymous, so please dont expose me)

It was so fun to meet so many friends and Join ASB. It was such an important experience for me.

Im a 7th grader who wants to be anonymous. I go to this school and honstly if your somebody who isnt that popular and not cool or rich dont go here. You will be bullied and roasted to the point where you dont want to even go to school. The teachers there arent even that nice.. The assistance principal will yell at you and make you pick up trash for no reason. There have been multiple fights during time ive been here and it doesnt even seem like they are trying to prevent them. Ive been punched multiple times here. I do not feel safe here at all. Sure its a good school for learning but you cant really learn because of the people.-- Im now in eight grade and this school has gotten worse girls here dont even wear clothes, some show up just in bras, meanwhile i wore a pair of sweat pants and a sweater and got dress coded. does that even make sense? i had a severe case of bullying here and no matter how many times i talked to the principle she did nothing at all. the security guard even fist bumped the girl for breaking my phone! ive been thrown down the stairs and the teachers are evil. my math teacher basically bullies me and makes me feel less than everyone in the class. this school talks about take care of each other, yourself, and the school? yeah no. they dont care about you or your problems or your life. this school is messed up, unless you want to be depressed or hate school dont go here.

OMG worst school ever i cant even believe it Ms.V sucks so much i think she should get fired honestly fts

This school is cool but HW is like...woah slow down 6 hours a night

I love most of the teachers, Really cool school.

I sent both my sons to this school. It is an OK school not what the principal told us at the begining of school year. It is absolutly not the first best school in Irvine or Orange County. The math teacher was gone at the middle of school year and they hired another math teacher that is so unorganized and even has not set up her email address. It is almost the end of school year otherwise I would transfer him to another school.

Almost all the staff are terrible! the food is not worth it and parents, this is not a middle school for your kids. I gotten bullied and harassed by students and teacher.

Sorry but this has been a terrible 2 year middle school. The motto is fake, no student follow these motto.

Just ghetto. If I was a parent Id never sign my kids up to this school.

Mansa Musa

I got to meet alot of new friends but every teacher are mean besides a few and the math teacher left middle of the year

The friday music should not exist.

They put an embarrassing photo of me in the yearbook :) this is stupid they purposely did that to shame me for not smiling (there were other students in the photo and they zoomed it in and cropped it out) some of the teachers and staff are quite rude and most should not even be working here,but Mrs Markowitz was really nice so sad that she’s leaving :(

Great school, great teaching

Lol no this place sucks

The best school ever

School is decent teachers are good

It is great

8/8 dank memes

This School Is Absolutely HorribleThe Principal Is A Jerk To Me And A Ton Of Other Students

MS.V sucks >:)

School is scary

Dope School

Ghetto

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