JHS 210 Elizabeth Blackwell

Pros:
I graduated from this school in 2012, I was in house C and was in SP classes for my 6^th and 7^th grade. My 6^th grade teacher Ms. Sanchez who I have so much respect for helped me through out my toughest times during the school year. The library always has some cool interesting books for you to borrow.
Cons:
Bullying was the biggest problem in this school and because of this I’d always find myself making appointments with the guidance counselor frequently, and crying while I went to the bathroom. It got so bad I just started skipping school or leaving early with my friends during the middle of class. An old friend of mine got mixed in with the wrong crowd and started doing drugs, I’ll never forget the day she asked me to skip first period with her and sit with her at a local park near the school. While we’re just sitting there talking she takes out a can of Four Loko and a cigarette, she offered me some, but I refused and for some reason I made an excuse and told her I had to give in work for a teacher and I went straight to school after that. A few weeks later there was rumor going around that my mother even knew about that the girl’s mother came up to the school with a police officer shouting that the kids in this school got her child addicted to heroin. I don’t know if her mom really did that but I know that the girl stop coming to school for a few months.
There’s a dean in this school named Mr. Yulfo who seriously I hate, he’s a douche bag who will forever be bald because he can’t keep his temper under control. Mr. Yulfo is the dean for house C and E, and he makes up the stupidest rules ever. I’m a person who loves to wear ripped jeans and during the middle of my 7^th grade year through 8^th grade he decides to ban ripped jeans, and the reason was because it was inappropriate and showed off your skin. Like WHAT!!! What kind of fucking rule is that, it’s the worst excuse ever. What student/​teacher is going to say «Oh my gosh I can’t focus on my work because Jasmin’s knees are so hot, they’re turning me on». Only a damn creep would think like this, so I was like whatever and I tried to find an alternative to this situation and I put on leggings under my jeans so my knees would be covered and no skin was showing at all. That still didn’t satisfy him, he wanted regular jeans and because I didn’t follow this rule I was put in, in-​house. In-​house is like a detention room, in-​house is a small narrow room with only about 10 desk and you sit there and do nothing. You’ll be lucky if one of your teachers sends you a worksheet or something to do while you’re there, because it gets boring and you’re sitting with one of the scariest kids in there. It’s stupid I lose a day of my education because of ripped jeans, it makes no sense I would understand if my jeans were provocative and had hole near vagina or something. But no, the holes were on my knees, my boring, dull, ashy, knees. Another dumb rule was there was certain way you had to bend down and pick up something you dropped, you couldn’t just bend over like a normal human and pick up a pencil from the floor. Nope!, you had to do some weird squat to pick it up. I swear when I was still going to this school, I would think Mr. Yulfo sits there in his office and says to himself «What dumb ass rule can I make up today to piss off the students in my house»?
Also I don’t know why but this school banned energy drinks, anything that’s not in a clear bottle and glass bottles. My little sister who now goes this school also told me they banned soda. Yeah, ok whatever the whole eating healthier issue, but this school is an extremist when it comes to things like this. My Jack the Skeleton thermos was thrown away because it was black and he couldn’t see inside. He had no remorse or try to repay me so I can buy a new thermos.
But it’s ok I am in high school now, I’m doing way better my grades are awesome I have the freedom to wear my ripped my jeans and whatever clothes I want. I can drink whatever I want, and drink out of any material the drink comes in. I just wish my little sister doesn’t have to put up with the bullshit I went through, because she is also in house C. It’s been a few years maybe everything has changed, maybe everything is a bit different and better.

This place was okay. It was the first school I made chinese friends. I got into Brooklyn Tech without prep from this school.

J.H.S. 210 Elizabeth Blackwell serves middle school grades: 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, and Special Education.
In my youth, having attended one measly academic year, the teachers cannot teach. The only teachers who I’ve learned from were Spanish, math, and science. Alas, all other instructors have publicly shown their disgruntled demur and unwilling presence by degrading students to embed negative comments. Owned and operated by NYC’s Board of Education who need to allocate better quality teachers to instill a positive learning environment to children for a happier well being. Ergo, my experience as a past student, was not learning as it was not enjoyable in a mentally healthy environment. Furthermore, there is little involvement as a school community between parents and teachers to strength an exciting learning positive environment.
MEH!