Walpole High School

Posted July 28, 2009

I need to vent...if your child needs to do 'all the work' once they get to college, why does anyone believe that a guidance counselor should be responsible to your child for choosing the right college, they are there to advise and they DO, if you schedule time, your child or yourself...the high school is not responsible, you, as a parent, and your 'college bound' child are the other half of that puzzle. As far as crowded hall ways, my children never complained about that, but that may be because we 'fit'' the demographics. Most importantly, we expect our children to do well and they rise to the occassion. Raise the bar and they will surprise you, and most importantly, themselves. In rating a school I think that the possibilities your child encounters there are what is important. Effort needs to be applied, WHS has much to offer.
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Posted May 31, 2009

The Walpole school system's relatively high performance on standardized tests has more to do with the town's demographics than the quality of the school. Of course the children of stable, relatively financially secure, relatively well educated parents will do better than average on standardized tests. This is in no way a result of Walpole's schools though. If you've ever taken the time to really observe the high school, you'd see that the school's new hallways are too narrow, creating traffic jams, its science labs very ill-equipped in comparison to some town's elementary schools, and its students suffer from an incredible dearth of diversity. To me, the Walpole school system does a poor job at developing the talent of its students when one takes into consideration the advantageous position many of its students are in to start.

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Posted July 4, 2008

I had 2 children graduate from WHS and both of them thought it was the worst education you could get out of a public school. None of the teachers are committed to the students and therefore don' t actually teach. My children watched movies in school almost every day. If that's how they are expected to learn then I should have home-schooled instead!! Guidance dept is the worst I've ever encountered. They expect the kids to do all the work when it comes to college searching and applications. Most kids that age have absolutely no idea what they want to do with the rest of their lives. I guess I wrongly assumed that the guidance staff was there to 'guide' my children along. I can't wait to move out of this town, now that all of my other children will be going to private school why would I stay here.
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Posted January 20, 2008

I do not agree with the idea that WHS has great teachers. I think that at the honors level, teachers expect students to work completely independently and get upset when you ask questions, but at the CP-1 level, they are so easy they pratically give you answers. The school has no school spirit and our principal never bothered to show up at our winter concert.
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