Hale Junior High School

I attended this school approx back in 1984– 1988. I am very grateful and thankful for the education that this school provided has provided me. But now I am an adult now and thinking back. I’ve wasted about 2 years wasting time here learning math. As a child immigrant from Taiwan, our math skills is advanced (About 2 – 3 years ahead) compared to the one here in USA. I already took ESL in elementary school and can communicate in English when going to this Hale Junior High. I pretty much remembered I was always the first one turning the quiz/​test in and getting close to 100% most of the time. The math teachers should have recommended me to advance to a higher math level right away. I was just wasting 2 years there not advancing my math level. I was still a kid and need to respect the teacher and let them do their job. How can a kid challenge a teacher. Maybe my mom should have came to the school and tell them to advance me. Bottom line, the math teacher need to recognize the student’s potential and not hold them back.
Another issue is that this school didn’t have a basketball program/​league when I attended. I was a bit disappointed when I found out other schools had it. I think some inner school systems have it. I hope I will find the time to call the school/​principal and let them know that this happened to me, now that I am an adult now.

Good school especially if you have the «right» ethnicity. If you don’t fit their preferred race or religion, no matter how well your child does, they will not be recognized.