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My sisters and I all went to St. Michael's. I, however, stopped going here after 5th grade. I was…read moreone of the kids who actually got their dream come true: it was my 5th grade year that the school burnt down. It seemed really awesome at the time: we got two weeks off in the middle of March. But of course, we had to make up for it later, and on top of that, the school was split up different places for the rest of the year while they reconstructed. The 3rd to 5th graders got stuck in a school called Little Flower. It was used mainly for preschoolers, and smelled like a giant diaper pail. They wouldn't let us use their cafeteria, so we had to eat our lunches outside. Doesn't sound terrible until you remember that in March in Ohio there will still be random blizzards. It's not fun to eat your lunch outside in half a foot of snow. We basically didn't learn anything for the rest of the year. When I transferred to Our Lady of the Elms in Akron, I was horribly behind. So behind they stuck me in remedial everything. But hey, it's okay: when I switched to public school my freshman year of high school I was put in advanced everything! Seriously though, even before the school burnt down it wasn't that good. I never learned the capitals. Also, nuns are terrifying, even if they're not trying to be. They also held me back a year (or rather, they wouldn't let me in kindergarten when I should have been) because they "ran out of slots." Uh, what? What hapepned to merit based decisions? This place was/is whack. I'd never send my kids here, that's for sure.

I went to school here and am now sending my children through. Such a wonderful school with well…read moreeducated and pleasant teachers.

Considering I was painfully geeky, I loved to hate this school when I was a teenager. Everyone is…read moreOBSESSED with football. Personally, I could not care less. They had an absolutely excellent vocal program, but the teacher has since retired, and music program has been substantially cut in junior high, so I doubt it's nearly as good as it used to be. Some argue that the football brings in money for other things, but of course, during my high school years, there was that whole debacle where a levy that was desperately needed to continue funding different programs and the new building, and it rested ENTIRELY on whether or not we made it to the state championships. We didn't. The levy failed. We didn't have a public busing system for 2+ years. Many "less important programs" like French club, chess club, and so on were cut (and this of course happened the year I'd been slated to be president of both). This is problematic when the majority of the high school's parents are blue collar workers - how are the students going to GET to school??!?!?! Overall, I enjoyed going here when I could avoid the stupid jocks, but I wouldn't send my kids here.

It's true that they were and still are obessed with football. But the school is crap. Half of my…read moregraduating class dropped out and went and got their G.E.D.'s the next day. Why? Because we wern't learning anything, and we had jobs.Money was more important then wasteing time sitting in class taking the same stupid quiz we took in that type of class the year before. All while the teachers seat the jocks together and walk around them pointing out the answers. Not to mention the funding issues. When I first arrived at the H.S. their were certain spots in the roof that leaked.How did they fix that?By placing trashcans under the leaks.When my brother went there 6 years later there were the same trash cans under the same spots.But their was a new building for workouts when it's raining.Even though when I was there we had 4 gyms, only one of them was for gym class. I was actually a cheerleader there my last year,as much as I hate to admit it.They asked me to join, I never went to try outs. But I still hate the way that they run that school. We begged for 4 years to have a phyc. class, there were 3 qualified teachers already working there at the time. One of the teachers had been petioning for the same thing. We eventually got it, but it was one semester and it was our last year their. They cut it when my brother was in school. Apparently they have cut a lot of things. They had been trying to cut the busses for massillon schools while I was in middle school. My class actually rallied togeher,got petions going,and had a walk out. The mayor (don't get me started on him) actually came and spoke with us.They didn't shut the busses down until I was in H.S.. Which was a pain considering it's freezing in the winter, they don't post the school closings for massillon until the last min, and by that time almost everyones already on their way there.Imagine walking from k-mart to the H.S. during an ice storm or heck even a normal winter. My parents both worked midnights.They got home about the time I was in 2nd mod. The mods to! ugh! 1st mod was at 7:15,school let out at 215. Lunch was 15 min.thats 15 to get from studyhall or your class to lunch and then to study hall.From anywhere in the school. We only had 5 min between classes to. That school is huge and that was not enough time to make it from one end to the very other expeshally if you had to go to your locker or use the restroom. Some teachers would give detentions if you had to go during class.others would lock you out when you went and then you got isc for being in the halls. Heck they even serve GREEN hotdogs for lunch.Because they don't plan enough food that's on the menu and nobody ever takes the hotdogs so they just reuse them day after day whenever they run out of food about 7th lunch mods, if you got 9th mod your better off just waiting till you get home to eat. Overall that school has no planning for ANYTHING at all.Nothing.Except football and the players on the team.Who gives a crap about education? NOT MASSILLON. We have 3 children of our own now and we WILL NOT be sending our kids to massillon city schools. NO MATTER WHAT they will not be going there. Most of the people I've talked to who have went through massillon school system agree that regardless of what we have to do we are not sending our children there.