Lake Mary Preparatory School
Lake Mary Preparatory School is a coeducational, non-sectarian, independent school founded in 1999. Located on forty-seven acres in Lake Mary, Florida, the school blends typical core college preparatory curriculum with progressive interdisciplinary teaching styles. The school has an athletic complex which includes a soccer/football field, a baseball field, a track, and five tennis courts. Construction began on a new softball field, behind the baseball field.
Lake Mary Prep's reputation was tarnished in 2004, when former principal Rex Steven Clark was charged with embezzling $422,000 from the school. [1]
About
Lake Mary Prep is a branch of Meritas International. Lake Mary Prep was sold to Meritas in the summer of 2007 by Learning Unlimited International Schools (established in 1976, Columbus, Ohio). The Lake Mary campus currently consists of two buildings. The Upper School building for grades 6-12 is a 45,000-square-foot (4,200 m2) building. The Lower School building for grades Pre-K through 5th is 22,000 square feet (2,000 m2) and contains classrooms, a multipurpose room/lunch room, an art room, and a computer lab.
Students and parents are unhappy with:
1) The Director of Lake Mary Preparatory School and Learning Unlimited Schools
2) Members of the administration and their personal agendas
3) The rules and policies that frequently bypass and disregard those that are outlined in the Student/Parent Handbook
4) Senior class privileges or the lack thereof
5) The methods that the faculty employ to discipline students
6) Various unqualified teachers
7) The fact that the school's only upper school building is a square that can hardly accommodate the current student population
8) The policy of forcing students to walk on ONLY one side of the athletic track in order for the lunch period supervisors to properly conduct their espionage missions
9) The failure of the administration to create an acceptable class schedule each school year, leaving some students with classes they do not enjoy nor appreciate
10) The requirement of a $150 fee prior to any athletic involvement, and a post-season fee to attend any banquets or special ceremonies
11) The substances used in production of the school lunches
12) The generally insensitive attitudes of teachers and administrative personal while negotiating with students
13) The various shallow promises that members of the administration lay out throughout the school year
14) The absence of cleanliness that is evident throughout the school’s hallways and rooms
15) The frequency to which teachers and faculty violate students' trust
16) The price of tuition, which amounts to $8.61 per class period
17) The fact that the educational value that Lake Mary Preparatory School provides its students does not, in the opinion of the student body and the parents, reach $8.61 per academic period
18) The poor air conditioning systems that overheat one side of the building and freeze the opposite side
19) The lack of an early dismissal day which is inadequately replaced by a redundant club period every Wednesday morning
20) The overpricing of virtually every school item that is available to the student
21) The unkemptness of some members of staff while at work
22) The delusional demands of many administrators in order to confuse and unease students
23) The clear inconsistency in punishments that are given out by the Dean
24) The statement made by the Director and Dean of the Upper School remarking that the current senior class "does not give enough back to Lake Mary Preparatory School"
25) The ridiculous nature of the uniform policy that does not allow students to wear an athletic sweatshirt despite the presence of a large school logo
26) The fact that students will not be provided an education in some classes until an unobtrusive and inconspicuous undershirt is removed from a student's possession
27) The unobstructed wishes of the administration that the senior class would violate the only senior lunch privilege of the school year to give them due reason to continue a harsh punishment regime
28) A collection of teachers that often unite in a common goal to disrupt certain students' education for matters of no concern to their personal lives
29) The failure of the school's Advanced Placement Coordinator to effectively proctor an exam
30) The way that teachers and members of the administration justify their oppressive policies towards even the most deserving of senior classes
31) The poor and unjustified treatment of many of the school's varsity sports teams and coaches
32) The total undermining of the upper school student council that regularly occurs during negotiations with the administration
33) The general lack of common sense that propagates from the front office staff
34) The senseless decision to block youtube.com, myspace.com, and google.com from school computers while allowing students free access to websites promoting illegal drugs or pornographic content
35) The faculty's temerity to set up trips that cost four figure amounts, and then increase the total price by 30-60% to account for the "teachers' personal days" that they use up while supposedly chaperoning the students
36) The intent of the administration and Director in ruining the reputation and social opportunities of the entire student body
37) The capitalist methods in running school demographics
38) The lack of education and general uselessness of the school's college counselor
39) The increase in the price of prom tickets to counterbalance the cost of holding the event on a boat, allowing chaperones to more closely control students during the event
40) The action of the administration to move the site of the merit roll achievement field trip to a location fifteen miles away from the school campus to force students to pay for the price of the extra gasoline used in transportation
41) The apparent deficiency of communication between administrators and students leading to numerous arguments and loss of temper
42) The aurora of hypocrisy that embodies the school's staff and their failure to adhere to any form of consistency
43) A clear dislike for student enjoyment while in the classroom
44) The nastiness, ignorance, and malice of which various teachers accuse members of the student body
45) An apparent favoritism towards underclassmen in policies, rules, and law enforcement that promotes more difficulty in controlling the upperclassmen
46) The contradiction made by administrators and the Director of Lake Mary Preparatory when urging more students to show interest in an arts program that is forced to fund itself
47) The lack of Advanced Placement classes in Chemistry, Economics, Government, and Foreign Languages, subjects that the overwhelming majority of the school’s competitors teach every year
48) A disgraceful inclination for the Director and other board members to fire the more popular and personally helpful teachers with vastly inferior replacements
49) The invasion of students' privacy by not only taking cell phones from their possession but actually looking through all messages and other factual information
50) The standard of college counseling that undermines a student's ability to choose and get accepted into a top university
51) The inflated price of school lunches that frequently consist of undercooked, poor quality, and malnutritious food
52) The scores of outdated computers with software that become obsolete long ago
53) The foolishness of the administration to award the senior class a "senior skip day" when most of the class is disallowed from participating
54) The focus on elaborate decor throughout the school's hallways and in the classrooms instead of genuine educational material
55) The inability of the Director to replace absent teachers with horrendous part-time teaching assistants and other substitutes that do more to help ruin a student's education than improve it
56) The use of textbooks and other scholastic accessories that are desolately outdated and in miserably poor condition
57) The Director's use of tuition payments, which are frequently put towards more expensive footwear
58) The inclusion of a redundant and incredibly unhelpful college prep class
59) The many instances in which locks of hair are found in the cafeteria's food
60) The school's completely inadequate leadership class, which is taught by a person who expresses little or no leadership qualities in life
61) The apparent refusal of most members of staff to acknowledge their own faults or commend students' abilities
62) The moronically brief lunch period that could not possibly allow a student to consume a nutritous meal or perform beneficial excercise
63) The lack of a wireless internet network, leaving thousands of various electrical wires entangled around students' legs
64) The comical decision to schedule senior final exams for the same week as Advanced Placement exams, leaving the majority of the senior class in an almost unsolvable situation
65) The tendency for one administrator to take one position on an issue and another administrator to take the complete opposite view
66) The truly embarrasing Griffin News Network, both produced and directed by a highly incapable midget
67) The ridiculous charge of $23.00 for any student and parent to attend the High School Awards Banquet
68) The decision of the administration to remove the final exam exemption rule despite it existing for five previous years and being ever-present in virtually every public high school
69) The school's 2007 decision to add an extra class period to the 2007-2008 academic schedule, forcing students to take one extra elective that is generally unpopular and unhelpful
70) The lack of availability of foreign languages, which for high school students, comprises of just Spanish
71) The fact that middle school students are taught the challenging and unorthodox languages of Japanese and Mandarin Chinese rather than more useful toungues such as French, Latin, or Italian
72) The school's capitalist and business-oriented policy of charging a $1 fee for every dress down day throughout the year
73) The complete lack of organization at the high school awards banquet
74) The incredible number of Spanish accolades given out (totalling 46) at the ceremony, while the most important subject in school, English, honors only 10
75) The presence of staff at work that appear intoxicated or incapacitated
76) The hiring of a former director and administrator without any regard to his criminal background, leading to grand theft and bad publicity for the school
77) The lack of formal admissions criteria in selecting prospective students
78) The ultimate stupidity of the school's policies and its disregard of proper morals and standards
Accreditation
Lake Mary Preparatory School is accredited by the Florida Council of Independent Schools. Yeah right.
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