Alcoa High School

1205 Lodge Street

School District

Alcoa
Grade

9-12
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:15
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by student on March 15, 2016

teachers are great I love coach Dunn and his way of thinking and explaining things. But I e been a student of Alcoa all my life and left my junior year to be homeschooled because of one teacher, Mrs. gorto she "teaches" marketing (my freshman year) and sports entertainment my sophomore year and I took hospitality my junior year so I could graduate with all marketing focus. Well.. I honestly don't know why I continued to take her classes she literally did nothing in that class she would sometimes show us a video and tell us to do a PowerPoint every single assignment was a power point. That gets boring after three years ! And she literally did not teach us a thing. We had a new "progect" everyday, and it was looking up on the internet what does this company do and why. What is that teaching us ..? I wasn't mad that we had to do work I was mad everyday that she let me and other students get picked on. When we had to present our PowerPoint for the class students had their phones out recording, posted online making fun of us with harassing comments. I told her about it and never did anything. This happened repeatedly and never did a single thing about it. And another thing that really bugged me, I had a doctors excuse for when I was out, and this teacher knew about my home situations cause I used to talk to her my first two years of high school about my health issues, I would miss assignments here and there but for the most part I did all my assignments, and she ever had this thing online where she would post the assignments so you could see what you missed and work on it on line (oh and we never did anything on paper all on computer, which half the class was on Facebook and YouTube ) well twords the end of the semester I was in the hospital, and I missed more than usual assignments and I was about to be homeschooled because it was too much to handle, I talk to her in private asking if I could make them up she said no! You were out and there's nothing you can do now she failed me when I was in the hospital, only this teacher thought being in the hospital wasn't a good enough reason all my other teachers passed me but not her. AND she wouldnt teach she was always on the computer checking her emails doing personal things order clothes, texting, listening to music. She told us go on this website so this and never talked to us until the next day. Terrible teacher
Submitted by parent on April 29, 2014

Terrible if you have a girl. A lot of cliques, and pressure to wear certain clothes. I really doubt those test scores, bc everyone in my daughter's sophomore class was under 40%. They are lying because they have that 80 million dollar school that's being built and they need as many students to attend so they get money from the government. My daughter will be transferring to Hardin Valley next year. Don't send your child based on these reviews that are coming from teachers and stafff!! They are bogus and there's a lot of bullying going on. So disappointed. This school used to be good!
Submitted by student on November 20, 2007

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Submitted by parent on September 24, 2007

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