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Russell Sage Junior High School

3.3 (8 reviews)

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2 years ago

I like jhs 190 Russel sage exept for some teachers like Ms feliz she was too strict but over all it's not that bad not gonna lie

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7 years ago

I went to Russell Sage when it first opened in 1954- I could't ask for a better school

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10 years ago

My favorite thing is the three piece chicken mcnuggets I would recommend this McDonalds any day of the week.

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Queens Metropolitan High School - This Car cut me off, nearly hit two women and blew a stop sign picking up two students at the school!

Queens Metropolitan High School

5.0(2 reviews)
1.0 miForest Hills

This is a wonderful high school created in 2010! I remember when I was zoned to this high school…read moreafter taking the SHSAT and I did not know much about this high school! However, the teachers are great, the athletic program is great and the academics are taken seriously! This was a very convenient school to get to and you can get involved at this school and should no matter that the days were 8:00am-2:20pm! I am proud to be a graduate of the class of 2018!

I felt compelled to write a review for Queens Metro because I know it's a relatively new school and…read moresome parents and kids don't know much about it. First of all, because some people get MELS and Queens Metropolitan mixed up, I want to clarify that they are two completely separate schools. They have nothing to do with one another. There are actually 3 schools on the same campus: a District 75 school (special education), MELS -Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School (middle school and high school), and Queens Metropolitan High School. They are three separate, independent schools. I didn't know how good Queens Metro was until my child started going there. He's an excellent student, he was in an honors class at Russell Sage and he had a GPA of 97.5 and high state tests scores. Yet, he didn't want to take the SHSAT. We didn't push for it (well...not too much) because we knew that Metro was a good neighborhood school and we were ready to transfer him if things didn't work out. As it turns out, we are gladly surprised that it is better than we expected. We're so happy we made the decision for him to go to Metro; the more we learn about it, the more we like it. Not only the environment is very welcoming and containing for the students and families, but the teachers are top notch! They are highly educated, young, energetic, engaged, good communicators, with high expectations and a passion for teaching. The principal, Ms. Rodriguez Tabone, is pretty new in the school. She is coming straight from Stuyvesant High School, where she used to be the Assistant Principal! This is her second year at Metro and she's making the school better and better. She's an amazing leader, committed to strong academics, making the best of every student and taking the school to the next level. She's bright, approachable and efficient. The school is getting grants and is transforming a trip to Costa Rica (which students can take at any point during the 4 years) into a community service trip. They have several clubs and varsity sports. They have AP and College Now courses. Now, there are kids at Metro who got into Bronx Science and Townsend Harris and chose to come to Queens Metro, and recently kids who were in other Specialized high schools for their freshman year who ended up transferring to Queens Metro because they didn't want to put up with the commute, having a great school in their area. That's how good it is. A lot of kids in the area end up going to the Specialized High Schools. Metro is a great alternative to that. I hear horror stories of kids from other neighborhoods who are excellent students but were not matched to a good school. We are so, sooo lucky to have Metro in our neighborhood

Newtown High School - The Tower covered by scaffolding, as seen from the roof outside the Band Room.

Newtown High School

3.7(6 reviews)
1.7 miElmhurst

During my time (2000-2004) in Newtown High School, it was a very diverse, mostly immigrant…read morecommunity, and many families were struggling with economic and educational issues. Diversity is a blessing but it can also bring struggles such as misunderstanding and unequal treatment. In that environment I often felt discriminated against, unsafe, overlooked, judged and unsupported, especially as a person with a disability. During my time there, the student body was approximately 35% Asian, 50% Hispanic, 10% African American, and 5% White. Around 70% had moved to the U.S. after age 11, 80% came from less-educated families, and 70% were from low-income households. About 65% of the students' parents worked cash-paying jobs. The graduation rate was about 55% and Ivy League acceptance was around 20%. Newtown High School has not been in a good school district and did not feel like a well-resourced environment during that time, and it felt like the system became so focused on its reputation that students with disabilities were often overlooked. There seemed to be more emphasis on increasing graduation rates and Ivy League acceptance rates than on supporting students who needed help, which I find deeply wrong. It was more difficult for me, because I thought I would get support from Mrs. Chen (Guidance Counselor) and Mrs. Wang (Assistant Principal of Guidance). I thought they would understand my situation, especially because we were from the same cultural background (Chinese). Instead, I often felt dismissed, discriminated against and misunderstood, and it was painful and confusing. It made me realize that bias and lack of support can show up anywhere, even where you hope it wouldn't. Over the years, I've noticed that Asians and my Asian classmates are the same. Whenever there's a problem, they're very passive and don't speak up no matter how angry they are about the problem. They just talk about it amongst themselves. I have lived in the USA for nearly 40 years, China for 5 years, and am close to most of them and I get upset when they just accept things that they know are wrong. When I ask them why they don't ever speak up, they say they don't want to stir up trouble and they don't trust management. It actually connects to something that happened to me back in 2003 at Newtown High School. I accidentally got locked in a girls' locker room one Saturday afternoon at 1pm on a summer of 75 degrees after class . What I thought would be a quick trip turned into being stuck there for about two hours. I was shouting for help through a small open window, getting weaker, and at one point I honestly thought I might pass out. "Help! I am stuck at the girl's gym on the 5th floor!" I didn't have a cell phone and my water. Just when I was close to passing out, two students (an African American boy and a Spanish girl) heard me and immediately got security. Their quick action prevented a much worse outcome, and I've always remembered their courage and responsiveness. As the security guard was walking us to the main entrance, we ran into Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Wang right outside of the Guidance counselor's office on the 2nd Floor. I was told that this was also near where my calls for help had been heard. What struck me just as much, though, was realizing that Mrs. Chen (guidance counselor) and Mrs. Wang (Assistant Principal of Guidance) had heard me but didn't act, and later treated the situation lightly. That experience made me feel dismissed and unsafe. What's most shocking is that the next few days, I heard some Chinese students, who lived across Newtown High School, had heard me, joked about it, and wished something bad upon me. Not only they didn't bother to call for help or report it, but they ignored it and treated the whole situation lightly. Even though my enemy shouts out for help, I would call for help or report it to authorities. Moreover, Mrs. Chen, who consistently belittled me, didn't refer me to proper support and services, and discouraged me from attending college, believing that people with disabilities are incapable of completing higher education. As a person with a degree, I wouldn't recommend this high school nor would I want my child to go here based on my experience.

Its pretty sad how a few people end up giving Newtown a bad name. Now I have to be honest when I…read moregot into this school had the opportunity of going into on of the specialized high school but I just didn't want to make the commute everyday. I can truly say that Newtown has teachers that care. Even after graduation I have teachers that I'm still in touch with. Heck I'm always going back to the school every once in a while. Now there are teachers who obviously don't care about the students - but you find people like that everywhere. There were fights but what school doesn't. Honestly I can say in my four years there I only witnessed two fights and when I heard about fights it wasn't even an everyday thing. The one problem that the school has is the security guards. I don't know if it was just my luck but they would always make my life harder walking in the hallways - with a pass... and yet I would see people who would cut everyday and were so familiar with the guards the the guards would walk with them. If you get the right teachers (there are plenty - don't want to name any because I don't want to leave anyone out) and do what you are supposed to do Newtown is pretty good school. Newtown Class of 2011!

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Newtown High School - View of another part of the school from the roof outside the Band Room.

View of another part of the school from the roof outside the Band Room.

Newtown High School - Plaque honoring WW2 sacrifices.

Plaque honoring WW2 sacrifices.

Newtown High School - The original door of the Weight Room, re-purposed for another room near the Girls Dance Studio.

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The original door of the Weight Room, re-purposed for another room near the Girls Dance Studio.

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Flushing High School

2.5(6 reviews)
3.2 miDowntown Flushing, Flushing

Hard trying to find the entrance due to they scaffolds. 3…read moreschools IN One! NO MEDAL DETECTORS! I'm guessing they jus thought about renovating the school. School seem about 100 years old

Stay away from this school. This is the worst school I've ever been. The instructors made too many…read moremistakes and don't teach. They just sit there and do nothing. When students ask questions, the teachers want other students to answer it for them. They jeep on telling us to work in groups but students have no ideas of the lesson and fool around. My grade dropped when I transfer to this school. My old school is much better than this rubbish school. I didn't learn anything from this school. Especially, one time was when I told them my personal small issue. They made the problem so big. They made my family and my relationship fall apart. Also, they made me really stress in my entire life. They also made my grades drop and embarrassed me in front of other people. I'm an elegant person and that's the only time in my life that I curse at those dumb stupid teachers. They don't even know elementary general knowledge statements. Students are more intelligent and active than those idiot teachers. Same during the field trip to Manhattan. They don't know how to handle stuff and embarrassed me in a place full of people. We are recording the food price in the market. They didn't wait for me in the market. Later, they announced my name on the speaker. This is so embarrassing for people to know a teenager is lost with my name announced. This is the first time that it ever happen to me. Also, I win the game but everyone gets the same reward. This is not fair that I win, got lost, and got embarrassed for hard work and I got the same gift as losers. The teachers are dumb in everything. They blame on the students who made the school fall but it's the teachers who made it fall. They don't help the freshmen and sophomore is wrong. Wish this school goes to hell!!!!

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