Foundations for the Future Charter Academy, South High School Campus - Calgary

Small building

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No good courses

It's really annoying how they make us write essays by hand instead of typing it out, it takes a lot of time out of our day considering that we have work from other subjects and let alone make time for ourselves, and its because they do not want any plagiarism happening which is totally understandable, but when you have to hand write an essay you get lazy and at that point you aren't even showing your'e best work.

I hate how i cant use my laptop for assignments just bc some people plagiarized, its not my problem. Also the campus is really small.

Some of the teachers do not know what they are doing. The campus is pretty small for a high school

Around 10 years ago, people would talk about FFCA everywhere you go, to the point where parents would enroll their newborn into the school. But times have changed and I dont think FFCA should get the applaud it used to have. I've been at FFCA since the third grade and now I'm in the South High School, and speaking from experience, I've had many an innumerable times of just disliking where I am, in fact hating it. Every year that passes by, teachers that have stayed at the school for years left the school for whatever reason and when new teachers enroll, they are horrible at their job, and my high marks just decrease. In fact, many students been having this problem, not just me. The teachers also can become very harsh and misunderstanding with students with mental health issues. Secondly, unlike other schools, we have to write our essays by hand instead of typing it out, it takes a lot of time out of our day considering that we have work from other subjects and its understanding that the school does not want any plagiarism but it can become very tiring for the students to the point where they are not showing their best work. Thirdly, the students at the school just seem to have at least 1 thing wrong about them. They are either racist, sexist, homophobic or just party a lot, which might not seem like a problem but many problems such as the after effects which can be large group fights which affect the community of FFCA. Again, all of this is coming from my personal view, and there is so so much more things wrong about FFCA ( including the fact that the school is renting a old elementary school lol)

Trust me when I say this. Don't bring your kid to this school. The elementary and middle school were so fire because the teachers understood what they're teaching. On the other hand, ffca high school does not know how to teach like they have teachers who don't have degrees teaching us. The principals are all about the "Don't be a bystander!" "Always stand up!" in there little motivation speeches each month. But when someone stands up or when someone OPPOSES the bully, the principal defends the bully. The only good staff members are the janitors; they do there jobs so good. they clean all of this tiny high school's door handles, mop the floor 2 times a day, wipe the desks. They could also teach Social Studies better then Ms. Guthrie. The building is so small, our middle school is definitely bigger, when we walk in the main hallway (+200 kids) paintings fall off the roof and hit our heads. And they're ALL about the "wear your mask!" "Social Distance" but its not even possible because of how small this school is. And also when one kid gets covid the whole grade is prone to get it because of how much contact + small the classrooms we have. Also, we have to do gym w/ 3 other classes at the same time.