![]() Whether it is their budget, keeping their teachers happy with tenure, or trying to squash the Running Start program simply because the amount of students who choose to do it reflects poorly on the school and they do not receive funds for those students who choose to leave. ![]() If you have not read enough complaints about her by now to know exactly who I am talking about, perhaps you have not done your job as well as you like to believe, and then perhaps I was right in my accusations that the TBHS and FWPS administrators simply care about numbers and not my education.Īctually, I know TBHS and FWPS administrators only care about numbers. However, I know that there are no islands in the Puget Sound, that the Columbia River flows from the ocean into the Cascades, and that Mexico is actually spelled Mejico thanks to my questionable History of the Pacific Northwest teacher who will remain nameless. I cannot remember how to graph a quadratic function, barely remember how to decipher miscellaneous SAT words from ninth grade English, and cannot recall from AP World History when the French Revolution started. I could pretend I had an absolute grand time in my studies, but if you knew me at all, you would know I do not pretend, nor do I lie. I could have taken a different approach to this letter and said what great things TBHS has done for me, but I would be pretending. I mean, I grabbed a handful of the only papers I have left that were not bent or stained or destroyed and shoved them in this binder haphazardly. I have simply grabbed random “best pieces of work” that I think “accurately represent” my education. House does not deserve to have a missing portfolio, I will sadly and very honestly continue.Īs mentioned before, the content inside this portfolio is very easy to fake. But for the sake of my diploma and because Ms. As my sister put it two years previously in her portfolio cover letter, this portfolio is a miserable waste of time. They will never know just how much they are appreciated in my life. In the hopes that one day more high schools will be filled up with fantastic educators, I have provided some examples of TBHS staff who taught me that learning is more important than just regurgitating out answers on a test and have gone above and beyond in their duties: Mia Gross, Gregg Phillips, Glenda Blankenship, Aaron Bellessa, and my lovely advisor for the past two years, Lisa House. I am not a product of TBHS, rather I am a product of the fantastic people I have met along the way in public school, my family, friends, and educators, and their encouragement for me to reach dreams far higher than the “mediocre is A-Okay!” bar set in the Federal Way high schools. Yes, FWPS and TBHS administrators, I am directing this towards you. You see, my education started the moment I stepped outside the walls of this god-forsaken institution and decided to choose my own fate, not dilly-dally on a plan set by people who do not care about me, rather care about the statistic I represent when it comes to graduating. ![]() Just to clarify, the education I am talking about did not happen at Todd Beamer High School. Hate to break it to you though it is not reflecting even a small percentage of the hard work and effort I have put towards my education and the level of learning I have attained these past four years. Inside of these three inches of plastic and paper is supposed to be a reflection of my time in the Federal Way School District. Below, I have pasted a copy of mine severely criticizing the Federal Way Public School district as well as many administrators at my high school, Todd Beamer. One requirement in the 13th year plan is a cover letter addressing the reader. ![]() I honestly do not know we, the students, have to do it or what good it is supposed to do for us besides waste our time. It is basically a bunch of old assignments thrown together and shown to a student’s advisor. In the Federal Way School District high school seniors are required to submit a “13th year plan/culminating portfolio” to graduate.
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