DuVal High School is the worst high school in PGC. The only bright side of DuVal are the honor students that try to make a sucess out of themselves. In DuVal there are a vaery few students that make honor roll and thats very sad. The proble in DuVal begins here.... Students are always in the hall ways, the adults the don't care, students are always cursing, the adults don't care, students disrepect the faculty and also the teachers. There was always a disturbance when I was teaching there. Students would walk out of class if you disagreed with them. It's just alot of nonsense in DuVal High School. I don't aways agree on suppension because school is based on education and when students get suppened that's not solving the problem. This is why students are behind in education and dropping out of school. Something needs to be done with this case. If DuVal had more rules students would obey by and the parents would take control in their son/ daughters lives this could be a better evironment. But if something don't happen soon, the turnouts wouldn't be great for these students. I always pray that students would get help

As a honor roll student I think DuVal High School was not for me. Students normally skip class, fight, smoke, disrepct adults, walk out of class, teachers can't teach because student is being disruptive, I can't forget about the fires and the fire alarms being pulled every other week. DuVal was the worst public school I ever attended. But now I attend a private school and this school have been wonderful. This school is perfect for what I want to persue in life. DuVal was like a scary movie to me. I'm glad and I thank god every night that I'm in a better enviroment.

Let me add to this scuttle. Several times I have been to DuVal I have been let down. I walk through the halls, and see students not in uniform. Why was I told I was required purchase shirts, when I see kids wearing whatever. I see doors sitting wide open for anyone to walk in, and also see students allowing people to come in, without asking a question. To me, that is not fair or just.

Why is when you go the guidance office, and you request assistance, you required to wait, because only person works in there, and she has her hands full being everyone else buisness. I dont like they way kids are treated, or how they are talked to. Something needs to be done.

Next issue, why does it take a parent to go the school, to have child readmitted, after the child brought a goverment issued document stating where he was the day before? An not only does he get treated like a second rate citzen, the parent gets yelled at like she is a kid at this school.

This is why DuVal gets called the worst school in PG County, because not only due they treat their children, who they are suppose to be teaching, like they dont have time for them, they also treat the parents the same way.

An just a note, I have went through proper channels to file complaints, I hope it does some good.

Faith Hunter, that article was horrible. Next time, before you write a crapy article with tons of gramatical structure errors, read over your terrible work. It sucked, your points sucked and your are a poor excuse for a writter. Keep practicing and you might get into pg... I wrote better in elemetary school

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