St Francis Xavier Elementary School

I went to St. Francis for nine years; I attended kindergarten to 8^th grade and was in class of 05′
Let me first say that K-​6^th grade was great, I had bad teachers here and there but the atmosphere of the school was relaxed, great classmates’ good teachers and I had a good time. Then around 6^th grade the schools then principle died from cancer and Ms. Elliot took over in her place as the new principle after that the school went from a fun learning environment to a horrid lockdown strict hellhole.
After Ms. Elliot came into power, they locked the gates and installed new ones; this gave me a very unsafe insecure feeling as they basically locked us in. They installed secretary camera’s everywhere. They also took down the old playground equipment and installed newer «safer» equipment which basically sucked. Then they changed the way they release students to school making a «drop off lane» it was horrid and I had to wait 30+ mins in the hot sun for my mom to drive through the line to pick me up. Before the lane it took me 3 mins to walk to my mom’s car and leave. They outsourced the lunch food to a horrid company that made the worst garbage not fit for human consumption. Even though the school upgraded the playground, cameras and the Jail gates, they never upgraded the classrooms, cafeteria, buildings and «blacktop». They said they would get rid of the nasty portable buildings by 2004 but here they are, in 2009 still standing! In fact they built way more crappy portable buildings where the old playground used to be! There are many things the school promised to renovate but they never got to it the management is generally lazy.
As far as academics, the classes are harder then any of the classes I’ve experienced at Brophy College prep, they push grade-​schoolers extremely hard I had about 2−4hrs of homework every night. They teach algebra and chemistry at the college level in GRADESCHOOL! 2 – 4 page research papers were common assignments for various classes each week in 7−8^th grade. They always told us it had to be formatted in Perfect MLA format for high school, truth is Brophy’s workload was WAY MORE LIENENT and less then SFX ever was.