Barry Goldwater High School

my experience about Barry Goldwater High School is filled with joy and happiness and what I love about Goldwater high school is hanging out with friends and being part of the hype squad and cheering on my football team as known to be the bulldogs varsity football and my high school is home to the bulldogs and I'm a bulldog's fan and the time I became a freshman at this high school I was ready for my next journey through high school and I'm a junior and I've had so much fun cheering on for my football team and for the spiritline as the cheerleaders they're so much awesome and everytime I go to Barry Goldwater High School I always have good old memories of middle school and elementary and I have an old friend from 10 years ago and I've known him since park meadows and his name is steven maxwell he's my best friend and we've been good old friends for 10 years and I've enjoyed remembering some old friends from my middle school paseo hills elementary and I love going to Barry Goldwater High School and how everything changed before and how time flies by from 2018 through 2020 and it's been a long journey for me and also my journey is almost over soon for high school.

Overall, Goldwater is underwhelming. The counseling department needs some serious work, seeming how there is no emphasis on college. I have heard that some counselors will tell kids to not go to college because they won’t be successful or that their intended career/ degree is a waste. There are some really amazing teachers and some that are not so great. Each department seems to have 1-2 really outstanding teachers. In my opinion, the Social Studies department has the best teachers.The IB program is effective, but a joke. Every IB kid can tell you they are stressed out and dislike most aspects of the program. Students would be better off looking at the early college programs the school has to offer in conjunction with the community colleges. The main IB coordinator is condenscending and unprofessional. They try and push the IB program because academically, Goldwater has nothing else to offer. Culinary arts has been on the rise the past few years, but the other CTE classes are outdated. The administration is sometimes lackadaisical in their ways. The old principal was much better. Overall, I enjoyed my time at Goldwater but wished I had gone somewhere else.

The IB program is very impressive. Both of my children loved their classes and found the curriculum challenging but not ridiculously overwhelming. I definitely feel it did a good job preparing them for college level coursework.

Not impressed at all. My daughter has 41 students in one of her classes and even the teacher said it's horrible. They say thier goal is to decrease D's and F's, but they have done NOTHING to show they care about grades. Impossible to get an appointment with councelor! Managebach (their way of tracking grades) is a joke, most teachers don't use it right and complain about it to the students about how stupid it is. Ugh! They do NOT push college to students, as a matter of fact they tell the student that they do not NEED certain classes to graduate high school, all the while, the student NEEDS those classes and credits to attend college!! So sad, for students!