Antioch Community High School

This place is hell. Literally. I was here for my final two years of school, and honestly they don’t teach anything else but the test even if you ask and are persistent they still won’t. Best bet is to get The History Channel, Discovery Channel etc you’ll need it. The teachers will not give you back homework if you are absent for any reason. Most kids come out of here unable to read. It was overcrowded when I came, and has more drugs than a pharmacy. If you’re a kid, throw a rock in any direction in this place you’ll hit at least 3 drug dealers if not the kids than their parents will offer it up. The teachers didn’t stop them. Also speaking of teachers, if 2 kids get into a fight or one is being bullied by another the victim is the one who gets in trouble for fighting back. The bully gets no punishment. buses are overcrowded last I checked. The school hardly prepares a student for college. The math system is completely backwards, everyone has to take a beginners math in college unless they are a prodigy. None of the teachers believe you if you have a relative die and will fight to not let you leave early, same with a family emergency. If a student has special needs homeschool them. As when my sister was there with migraine headaches and ADD the school treated her like crap instead of helping to diagnose the problem and let us know so we could help. They failed my sister when she couldn’t make choir practice because we were traveling to Chicago each night to be with my dying father. My science teacher asked for a death certificate to make sure I wasn’t lying about it, the choir teacher came to the funeral to make sure my sister wasn’t lying about it. The Yearbook teacher went insane one day and brought a spear to class and threatened to stab students if they didn’t work I told other teachers about it the next couple hours and got no response no one did anything about it. If you’re in sports you’re allowed to sail through without learning anything or just enough to let you play. The school was overcrowded when I was there which has since changed. The tutors they send are useless. Worst of all, they don’t make learning fun. I mean I learned more from Discovery Channel, History Channel, college and asking my parents than I can ever think of there. ¹⁄₃ of this town leaves yearly, because of no work in town, too far from Chicago/​Milwaukee to drive or the crappy school system. I know I’ve asked parents. I even asked a college teacher who is my neighbor and she confirmed that this school system is the biggest joke within the education community. Do ourselves a favor, either get out of this system as best you can or leave town. The amount of homeschool students here is huge.