This school failed a student, a family, and the school's very own basic purpose: to provide each student with an education. In fact, instead of making any effort at all to help me learn, the administrators at this faculty decided to kick me out of it. I have a chronic health condition, and I guess this makes me not "pure" enough to attend here. Essentially, I was discriminated against for having a chronic illness. I had quite a flare-up of my condition while I attended this school and attendance was difficult during this time. I would try emailing my teacher about assignments, but instead of giving me any actual physical work, I received speeches about how I have to be at school to daily. Although aware of my chronic struggle, the school refused to accommodate it. I can understand that I need to physically be there for some assignments, but to give me absolutely none or any sort of substitute work was only setting me up for failure. Whenever my parents or I would try to reach out to the overworked student counsellor (who I am sure would misplace her head if it were detachable), she would either completely forget the entire conversation, or just flat out never get back to us. I emailed her actually about an urgent matter near the end of the school year and it took her a month to get back to me. Even then, her email really did not help in any way. It just goes to show how my voice or case did not really matter to them. My critical situation should of been a priority to them, but instead it was continuously put to the back of the pile. As the school year came to a close, the school discarded me like trash. My family received a letter in the mail basically outlining how I am being kicked out of the school. This is not the kind of thing that should be done through letter; it should be done in person (we tried to set up a meeting multiple times before even receiving the letter to discuss my future education but nobody ever got back to us) and an attempt should be made to still try to make the student successful in their following school year. Throughout my entire attendance here, the vice principal and principal made no effort to try to meet with my family and I, or create a way to accommodate my serious situation. Now a new school year has started, and I am left with literally to school. Nobody from KSA has checked in to see how I am or if I am even attending a school. It does not matter what a student is going through; every child has the right to learn. Some of us has difficulties that make it harder for us to attend and no child should be abandoned behind the rest of their class because of it. Everyone deserves to have a fair education. A couple of side notes:The first face that one greets at a school, the secretary, should have some enthusiasm in her. The main secretary here, Mary Ullstrom, is about as lively as a rock. There is never any expression on her face, and this just immediately gives off an unwelcoming vibe. Oh, and ask her any question and she will repeat her famous catch-phrase, "I don't know". I thought secretaries tend to be in the loop about what goes on at a school?And If you are thinking of attending here for the fine arts program, let me warn you, the art room SUCKS. The best supplies they carry are a bunch of ratty old Crayola pencils. A high school student who is heavily involved in art can only learn such basic techniques from these kind of extremely basic supplies. My previous school carried brands like Prismacolor and Copic. Those actual quality supplies really helped me advance my learning. The art teacher can be quite temperamental too; don't get on her bad side.
Sure they are a little disorganized but it was a good school. I enjoyed my time here
It's an indisputable fact that I attended this school for longer than most of the kids there have been alive. Thus, I've put more time into arts-based learning and creative experiences than most people can dream of, and I owe it all to this school. My life here was really the best of times, yet it was often the worst of times as well, but if I had to pick from the positives and negatives of the school, the good would outweigh the bad.I went to this school starting from preschool, back before the high school part of it was made into a full-fledged reality, all the way to Grade 12, during which the school took on a new K-12 identity and many of the people I knew and cherished had come and gone. It seems like merely a week ago that I walked through those green-tinted doors of the old elementary campus back in 2005, but it really has been over thirteen years. Think of it this way: kids born in this millennium are going to college now, the 90s was almost twenty years ago, and 9/11 had its 17th anniversary not too long ago as of this writing.With the occasional slip-ups, the teachers, students, and vibes of the school were generally of quality and the learning outcomes were great as well. Like the world of arts itself, the school was a constantly evolving matter in which "self-expression and performances" led to consequences, both good and bad.Some of the recurring problems of the school during my long stay there were its sub-par lunch program and lack of awareness of the mental health and well-being of its students. It was not always the best place to be, especially when I got on people's bad sides and my empathy and self-awareness slumped on various occasions.Some of the people I cherished the most during those years were the close friends I had all throughout elementary school (you know who you are), my kindergarten and Grades 2, 5, and 7 teachers, and even the janitors. Those people helped me prosper, but others, like the counselors, principals, bullies and love interests, didn't.In conclusion, Kamloops School of the Arts (or as the name I knew it by most of the time, Beattie School of the Arts) was an interesting yet flawed endeavor which I stuck by for most of my life thus far. It was never perfect, but the nostalgia, experience and all-around spirit of the school kept me going through the dark, and the light of it all. Despite this, I have no plans to revisit that place; or as my great-great grandmother would say, "I've had a great sufficiency."
Kamloops School of the Arts is a Canadian School based in Kamloops, British Columbia. Kamloops School of the Arts is located at 1390 9 Ave, Kamloops, BC V2C 3X5, Canada.
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