New Westminster Secondary School

So I figured what better to write about than my high school. Ahh such tortured shattered memories combined with some of the best times of my life. NW is a pretty large school, I believe there was about 1700 of us when I attended, and with that many students your gonna get your mix of personalities. So from math whizzes to petty small time drug dealers, hiding in lockers to poaching lunch money, enjoying an education to smoking joints outside of your class, and everything in between you had all walks of life attending. I would like to think I was somewhere in between. Not a straight A student, but not a hopeless cause (I have never failed a class or test in my life well except for my OFA level 2 test but they cheated me I swears it!) I kept a good balance of B’s and a healthy passion for teen experimentation. Now would I ever recommend NW to people. maybe, I mean I had more good times than bad and like to consider myself smarter than a troglodyte. Would I ever allow one of my future children to attend NW, well about as sure as I am David Caradine was a kinky S.O.B I am sure I would never allow any of my offspring to be on their roster. I am not sure how much the school has changed as far as the students go, but it was a pretty shady place when I attended, and it wasn’t hard to get led off the path by intimidating peers into a life of petty crime and beginner drugs (or in the cases of many former friends dead, overdosed, imprisoned, or hopelessly lost). Now I suppose this can and does happen in any school any where but I always felt NW was one of the few in Vancouver where your odds greatly increased. Aside from that the teaching staff was a mixture of discarded alcoholics and innovative do gooders that you cant stop listening to (If any of my old teachers ever read this you know who you are we see the empties in your car and have tasted your coffee while you were away, trident wont cover up that breath Ms. Thomson). The sports and amenities for the most part are very accommodating and I know this because I was a part of several of their teams. With two more than full size gyms fully equipped, and a foot ball field with track around it they had their bases covered. Well other than I wont get into any childhood stories, so three stars for all the great teachers and for me being successful in life (that’s my opinion others may say I’m 5 years behind) and the two stars that aren’t there are for all the bad teachers and things I shouldn’t have learnt at school.

I like to take a lot of continuing education classes (special interest) and most of the time they are held here. At the moment I am taking a Zumba class once a week which is held at the high school.
I can only comment on the fact that the school could definitely use some upgrades as it looks old and dilapidated inside.