Benjamin Holt College Preparatory Academy

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I am currently in high school at Ben Holt and the amount of work that is given out is outrageous. I am an over achiever that maintains a 4.0 GPA. There are no sports or after school programs besides tutoring. There are minimal school dances and functions that include one dance a year and 3 Saturday schools where parents and students are required to attend where teachers go over a senior project like activity that each student must present to a panel of judges every year. The uniform policy is ridiculous. P.E. is not offered at all after 7th grade and we have no time to socialize with our friends. Students have to share minimal sized lockers with other kids. The school meals are outstandingly terrible. The work load is ridiculous, you have to 3 times as hard than you would at a regular high school.
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Posted December 16, 2009

Ben Holt is run by Aspire Public Schools, my twins have been in the Aspire program since the first gradeand are now in the 11th grad at Ben Holt. An outstanding experience for my children. The the teachers ar Wow teachers nit just one or two like most schools.
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Posted November 20, 2009

I'm an eight grader at Ben Holt. It's really one of the best schools there is...it really is. As a student, however, 99.99% of the time I am stressing out over all the assignments we have to do. To only make it worse in 6th grade we had to have substitutes for almost a whole quarter. In 7th grade we managed to have all our teachers for the whole year but had to share electives with 6th graders...In the 8th grade we got a new math teacher before the 1st quarter was completely over and now we feel behind and then we have exhibitions every year! The way the staff actually stresses over uniforms is just ridiculous! They should spend more time trying to make our school have more extra curricular classes and sports instead of nagging us on our uniforms...
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Posted September 16, 2009

Loved the school. My daughter is a Junior in University, almost right out of high school, and was totally prepared for the college experience because of the great training and teaching at this school. I recommend it to all of the people in my life, as a much better alternative to the public schools in our area. The teachers actually CARE about the students, and it shows, daily.
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