UHS is a small school so lacks certain opportunities, such as some extracurriculars and vocational classes, that should be available to all teens. Some of the teachers are great, but the best ones tend to be poached by larger schools. The students are pretty country as would be expected in Baxter, TN.
At least at the time I attended, administration didn't know its students. For example, on the first day of my senior year, the principal asked if I was a freshman. I was one of the school's top academic performers.
On my first day as a freshman, the first thing my Algebra 2 teacher said to me when I walked into her classroom was, "You need to get out of Advanced Algebra next semester."
Both the year I graduated and the year before, there was drama about class rank because the valedictorians were teachers' kids. Rumor went around that the valedictorians' grades were tampered with and/or that teachers gave them more attention than other students.
My favorite high school memories are field trips to math contests at Tennessee Tech University, and the WCTE Academic Bowl. read more
