Ramona Elementary School

To be honest, when this school’s principal came in 2013, I felt that the amount of fun activities and opportunities declined greatly. In the 2014 – 2015 school year, three teachers won for the Halloween costume contest and were promised a pizza party for their class. However, that promise was never fulfilled. There were more promises that were never fulfilled. For example, in 2013, she announced that if the students behaved well, there would be a small celebration on the last Friday of every month. I’d say that our behavior was alright, but it only happened once, and during that one time, everybody had to stand outside in the stifling heat for a long time and listen to her blah blahs and a DJ that was probably paid so much for doing literally nothing. That event was more for the little kids, though. Also, Ramona Elementary’s traditional Mustang Salad Bowl event perished as the new principal came into power two years ago. I don’t know if this is just a coincidence that it ended when she came to this school or she just decided to cut off the promotion that encourages kids to eat healthy and exercise often. Also, the principal wasted about $ 40,000 for an artist to come to the school to let us draw on cardboard boxes, teach us how to draw an elephant, and let us use Playdoh to sculpt ourselves as a baby. We could’ve used that money for more appetizing cafeteria food, new playground equipment, more exciting field trips, etc. Adding to, the principal scheduled many assemblies that diminished class time, which some teachers did not like.
During March or April of 2015, there was a situation where a student almost broke a teacher’s printer with a sheet of notebook paper and scraps of paper. Unfortunately, the culprit would not admit to their deed. The teachers and the principal threatened to take away the eighth graders’ promotion activities. However, no one would confess. Afterwards, they tried to use a scare tactic of contacting the police and threatening to fingerprint the students. However, a student announced to his peers that they cannot fingerprint the students without permission from parents. And here’s the thing: the teachers and the principal knew that. The «mature» adults were boosting the idea of dishonesty.
The construction of a new playground was finally finished in 2014. Unfortunately, the upper graders were not allowed on it whatsoever supposedly because, one student quoted, «we’re too big and fat.» That rule caused an uproar for equality, especially from the eighth graders. After a while, the upper graders earned the right to go on only the swings. Nearing the end of the 2014 – 2015 school year, the rest of the playground that was restricted to the older ones was scarce of kids. The supervisors were still given orders to not let us up the playful apparatus.
There are many more issues that this school (mainly the principal) has to resolve. The principal was promoting broken promises, throwing money down the drain, lies, not sharing, etc. The principal wasn’t promoting eating healthy, exercising more often, or primary education.

My judgement is based off of physical appearance and what I see on the outside. There are always kids running around, laughing and smiling, and the traffic flow for this school is never my crowded with caring parents. There’s a lot of security cross guards who are very serious about what they do and help out the neighboring kids and families. The school looks awesome, like its a step back in time, and the back playground area is awesome but could use more grass (little kiss deserve grass).

The school main building out side look like the same one from the Simpson’s… when I was there classroom are good size and not crowded except in the ESL room. There’s pretty of basketball court but no nets. School need funding to repair some of their facilities.