Bishop Blanchet High School

Living in the neighborhood with this catholic school is living hell! The students, for the most part, are great! It’s the parents who drop them off and pick them up that really go out of their way to fuck us all! They block driveways, crosswalks and intersections, they litter and they drive too fast. Basically they do all the things they don’t want done in there neighborhood.

Overall this school is definitely not worth the money. The teachers and administration do not communicate with parents, especially when a student is having any stuggles at all. They don’t step in to stop bullying, they don’t inform parents when a child is failing a class, and then when you complain, they act like they don’t care at all. I am hoping public school will be better than this pretentious school.

Although the majority of teachers are amazing, the few teachers and administrators who are terrible are tragically bad. Dickens couldn’t have written more maladjusted, condescending, supercilious individuals. Mind you I’m talking about a very few, but those few are powerful enough to traumatize timid or impressionable students. We have referred to it as «The Gulag» for the frosty temperature of the building and (some) staff. In the four years my children were «incarcerated» there, they had a total of five different principals.
However, much praise is due to some truly stellar faculty members, including Mo Mershon, Father Doug (retired), Mr. Monica, Mr. Herber, Mr. Finnegan and Mrs. Boyd.

This school is for sheltered gossipy little shits. I went there and now later in life I’m a mal-​adjusted psychopath.

I’m a recent grad [2005] and there have been a lot of structural improvements since I left. Really, though, the building itself is inconsequential when compared to the amazing teachers there.
Sure, there are duds in the staff, as there are in other schools, but when I visited a couple weeks ago, many teachers who I never even had recognized me and greeted me with hugs and congratulations on my impending graduation… and I wasn’t exactly the type to stand out for any reason. This is a school where the faculty and staff seconds as a family, which may be awkward for those of us who are public school students beginning the private school track in high school.
When I graduated there were only a handful of AP classes. From what I can tell, the course catalog hasn’t really expanded much [read: at all] during that time. Blanchet is well known for its drama department, and I enjoyed my time participating in extracurriculars — particularly choir and the Japanese club. Blanchet has four languages available, which is on par with public schools in the area — German, Spanish, French and Japanese. Watanabe-​sensei, the Japanese instructor, is amazing and makes language learning fun.
Going from Blanchet to the UW was not a difficult transition. Although when I was in high school I wasn’t particularly fond, I am glad that I had the experience of attending Blanchet and realize just how lucky I was to have such a nurturing teaching environment.
God this sounds so cheesy! But it’s true. Sure, like every school there are lots of improvements to be made — but it could be worse. After all, it could be Prep ;)

***** Class of ’83 Reunion *****
********** July 19, 2008 *********
Yes! It’s been 25 years since I/​we have graduated from the private catholic school by Greenlake.
The planning has begun, and it would be great to see everyone again. Post here how’ve you been, thoughts & ideas, and/​or just send us a bunch of party money =0p…