El Modena High School

They have Gatorade at their water polo events. That’s a plus in my book. But here for my niece’s water polo game against El Modena… so go Villa Park! ;)

I didn’t have any problems with the school mainly because i only went to school for my friends and the choir program. I always had a blast in Mrs. Solis class, that would be my favorite place to be after school. I had a great history teacher my jr. year and he was the only teacher who really cared to get to know me that year besides Mrs. Martin, she was awesome. I think i had a lot of great teachers at Elmo but many teachers their don’t know how to encourage their students to strive after their goals and dreams. I was never encouraged by anyone besides the two teachers mentioned. unfortunately i don’t remember the name of my history teacher but he was cool. I don’t think the school had much school spirit at all when i was going their, and i think this is the fault of the school, not the students, because the staff game the students no desire to strive after anything, and if the students ever did have spirit it was because of there up bringing. I have to say that most teenagers like to listen to other adults more then they like to listen to their own parents and sense the teachers didn’t teach enthusiasm, they failed at their attempts to make the school a better school. If they attempted at all that is. One of my teachers, one of my math teachers was also the girls soccer coach and he sucked at teaching math. he never even collected our homework so it was almost impossible to get a good grade and when we had a test we never new until the day off so we had no time to study for it. Thanks to that teacher, I never got to algebra 2

I’ve been a vanguard for almost three years and I’ve only had one teacher during my experience there who’s taught be enough material to retain through the years. Except Mrs. Acondilado the staff at El Modena is poorly trained, at least the teachers I’ve had, and the school is extremely disrespected. About 20% of the Vangaurds have school spirit and its not a fun place to be. The office staff completely ignores you except for Mrs. Lamb who’s extremely sympathetic and smiley! Basically I wouldn’t say I like it here at all.