Campbell County Comprehensive High School

The school admin is awful. I have been trying to get them to let me come up and talk to the school students about what it will take to get into college, as well as other opportunities that the students will have after high school. I am recent graduate and I want this opportunity to give back to the school, but the school officials are fighting tooth and nail to keep me from the school.

I believe the school need more leadership. The dress code is not enforced. It is awful how some of the students dress. The main thing is parents let them leave the house looking this way.
--Submitted by a parent

the school is trying to help students learn and the teachers did their best to try to get the writing scores up.
--Submitted by a parent

It is very easy to play the blame game regarding any school or government program. However, the absolute truth in the matter, is you TRULY get what you put into a program. If a student wants to learn, and puts forth an effort, they will get everything they are looking for and more. HOWEVER, if a student comes to classes simply because 'they have to', they will not recieve any benefit from attending that school compared to any other school. As per the instructors at this school, to be a certified teacher, you must pass a STATE certification program. Which means, that any teacher in Tennesse is certified to teach anywhere in Tennessee, which also means that the program is state wide... not county wide as some seem to believe. In short, the teachers at CCHS are just as qualified as any other teacher in the state.
--Submitted by a student

My son is a Freshman and I am not happy with the level of communication by the school. There are some teachers that started the year with a good effort but that wained over the semester. I think better communication for progress reports, agendas and activities is desperately needed to improve parent and teacher involvement - it is hard to get involved when you have no idea what is going on. I also think teachers are the key to success and failure. My son excels with certain teachers and struggles with other and it is not about the subject - a bad teacher can ruin a favorite subject and vice versa. I think teachers is one of the most important jobs in the world. We need incentives and competition to keep the best and weed out the rest.
--Submitted by a parent

My son has been going here for the last 4 yrs, I receive very few letters telling Me about what's going n in the schools.. any kind of activities or even progress reports..He has yet to bring home a book and when asked why O get the response * There isnt enough for everyone to have one* which I have asked and sure enough they are short on books..If we are paying taxes where is all this money going? For the roads, in the admisnistratiprs pockets?..Where???.. Shouldnt it be goinginto fixing our childrens schools and giving them a place to learn and advance to be prepared for adulthood?..The teachers in this school *Minus a few* are pathetic.. they act as if it's a burden for them to even show up, which isn't sending the kids the right message..
--Submitted by a parent

Finding out about school activities and agendas is extremely difficult. More information in a timely manner needs to be available to parents.
--Submitted by a parent

So much more needs to be done by the staff and teachers. Parents also need to do there part. There are teachers that are getting paid just to show up. I know a few of them.Our school is in need of an overhaul. Our test results show how our school rates and should be ashamed of itself and it performances.
--Submitted by a parent

OK I am a current Senior at CCHS. In my honest opinion anyone who can sit around and call this school a joke, obviously hasn't been there long enough. I have spent the last four years of my school career there and in my expierience I have found some very amazing qualities and some very poor ones. Some teachers at the high school need to put their effort into the class as well do most of the students. Where as other teachers are doing a very fine job and their students are excelling wonderfully! What most people need to understand is that you can only get out of a school what you put into it. Well, the case at CCHS is that most of the students are very lazy and feel that the teachers should hand them everything on a silver platter! We also need better parental involvement! -Laura Green
--Submitted by Laura Green, a student

As a former educator,I have spent time at CCCHS. I have observed the various facets of the school. In my openion students and staff are victims of themselves. Reasons:rural isolation with little input from outside eduational sources, poorly prepared administrators. There are many wonderful teachers and counselors there who are allowed little input into school operation. Many of them whould make better leaders than those in adminsitrative positions. Like many others, school leaders are in denial about changes that are badly needed.The big,bad and controling immage in not a good way to motivate students nor teachers. Positive communication and solutions are badly needed. Good luck CCCHS and esp. to new school director.
--Submitted by a teacher