St Anthony High School

St Anthony High School is one of the biggest scams in the history of post elementary education in this country. I will never take anything away from Mr. Hurley nor will I ever take anything away from the hard working student athletes, but the truth is far from what the public sees. The public perceives St Anthony as this haven for kids stuck in the streets and a school that’s great and full of hope. The truth is the school is an abomination, an absolute disgrace to post elementary education. The basketball and football players are treated like royalty while the rest of the students are treated like second class students. The education itself is absolutely pathetic. Year after year seniors graduate with an education that leaves them seriously unprepared for college curriculum. There has been so many salutatorians and valedictorians that have gone to prestigious colleges to only fail because the «education» they received in St Anthony left them severely under prepared. For the «regular» students it’s a handicap that’s felt from day one. I personally experienced it myself when I attended both St Peter’s College in Jersey City and Slippery Rock University in PA. Some of the reasons for education failures is the lack of qualified teachers. When I attended St Anthony HS most of my teachers were under 25, many taught classes completely unrelated to their majors or areas of «expertise». While that may have changed slightly, the reports from students still show a grim picture. Students still complain about the constant disruption in class, teachers teaching subjects completely unrelated to the class their in, teachers teaching «magic tricks» and card games, basketball and football players acting a fool to not only fail to get disciplined, but simply get sent to the athletic office to hang out for the rest of the period. That’s the message we need to send to our young kids? People praise how the basketball and even now the football program has taken kids off the street and given them a chance at life they wouldn’t have had before. I agree with that but only to a certain extent. Because of the absolute lack of education in that school, as well as the blatant favoritism of the basketball and football athletes, the basketball and football program as a whole is a failure. Just because it may get students INTO college, their lack of a real education is a MAJOR failure. How many of those athletes continued to the NBA or even a serious career outside the US? Not many. So what do these students have to fall back on? Surely not a legitimate education. What happens to those students that were given the golden ticket through high school because of their basketball or football status, but because of that now fail at college because they were so ill-​prepared? There needs to be a serious investigation at the overall practices at St Anthony High School. It is nothing short of a travesty that this nonsense continues at St Anthony High School and nobody says anything. The only thing that matters is how successful the basketball program is… Well how successful is the education? The REAL St Anthony NEEDS to be exposed, and it will be…
Former graduate of St Anthony High School…

This highschool placed the best basketball team in the entire country… that’s gotta count for something.