George McCann Memorial Catholic School

I am a current student at GMC, and I am addressing the review below. The school provides a great moral compass for the students that is wonderful in this day and age. We are very capable of answering questions in sentence form, and comprehending written material. Laptops are expensive for a small school. I have had typing programs and art since kindergarten. We do book reports on grade appropriate literature, and oral presentations. We compete in diocese and county-wide academic events. The teachers are always there to help and guide us. I've had an awesome nine years there.

Very poor academics and academic performance. An alarming number of students in the higher grades read very poorly and do not retain or comprehend written material. Many students are incapable of answering test questions in sentence form, so test adaptations have to be made - most of these students have been educated at this school their whole lives. What has gone wrong here? A private school with no AR program?!!! No laptop program for junior high grades? No foreign language program? No art program? Antiquated computers and no typing program? No book reports are ever assigned. Reading of full length books and grade appropriate novels is not assigned nor required. Only one teacher gives special adssignments, but other than that there are no reseacrh reports assigned, no oral presentations, no special projects. Again NO AR/ Accelerated Reader program!! It is not what one would expect from a private, Catholic school.

i think its ok! i am in class of 2009!
--Submitted by a student