Johnny Bright School

This school is "alright". I am in grade 9 and have been going to this school for almost 8 years so I think my opinion holds some merit. First off, Most of the teachers are fine. They honestly do care about there students and try their best to make sure your child is successful but, that's only most of them. Some teachers are disgustingly sexist, condescending, and pretentious. They abuse their power as a teacher to reject any viewpoint or opinion they do not agree with. If you try to express yourself in one of these teachers classes and they don't agree with it, you will probably get kicked out of class or sent to the office. This year they introduced "CAP Day". Cap day allows children to try out different hobbies and subjects they wouldn't get to try in the normal curriculum. While it sounds like a great idea it was executed sloppily. Lessons for cap day are clearly rushed by teachers and are barely informative considering they had to group all of the Junior high students together, making it harder for the Grade 9's to learn harder stuff. Overall the school is pretty much like every other school except there are less drug dealers and pot heads here.

This school is really something else! I have met some of the most fascinating creatures lurking in the halls of this great little place. The mice in the building taught me more than the teachers ever will, mainly because the teachers are too busy to do their jobs. Despite this, I would highly recommend that we turn our attention to google, who still has not implemented the option to give a half star rating- the only rating that would do this laughable excuse of a school justice.

I was a former student here (from grades 3-7) I can say that this school is overall a decent school. Firstly I'd like to talk about the courses regarding junior high. The fact that many teachers actually teach more than 2 classes is not surprising, but the school seems short on teachers for some subjects. Also, the courses are overall nice and not too restricting although some courses teach some pretty useless stuff. I personally find the technology and applied skills classes quite useful. I cannot say anything about CAP Thursday as I have never experienced it. The teachers here are mostly very nice and helpful, but sometimes feel biased towards other students, also, I'd like to say that most teachers are quite well versed in the subjects that they teach. In regards to management of student situations, all the teachers seems to end up bringing consequences to both sides and prefer to push the situation off to others. The facilities in this school are one of the better ones that I have seen, the toilets are well cleaned, even though many students tend to fool around in it. The inside of the school is also well managed. The learning environment is not bad, the library offers a decent selection of books and resources. In conclusion, the school is really quite nice, it has great facilities but could be more well managed.

I went to this school from grades 5-7, spanning the years 2010-2013 (from it's opening year), and while I think my time here was important to me and my growth, the school itself has very misplaced values that tarnish the experience. The first problem that rose was the fact that there were no schools on the South side at the time. Most of the kids that went there previously attended Steinhauer. Since this neighbourhood had already been lived in for some years, this school was extremely overcrowded. I believe at one point there was 7 different kindergarten classes going concurrently, taking up almost the entire south wing of the school, and even the portable classrooms they got in 2013 didn't solve the issue. Ultimately the effect of this was booting out the existing Junior High classes (grades 8-9 were no longer being run, the existing grade 7s would have to move schools, I was one of those grade 7s). Beyond that, the largest issue with the school was it's staff. Some of the staff present at the time of me attending this school were some of the best teachers I've ever had, but they contrasted heavily with others. If it wasn't them simply not appearing to like their job one bit (Margo Cahn), it was them having severe trust issues with their students to the point of demeaning them (Chad Heinz). As mentioned earlier, this school was heavily catered toward younger kids, as they were the largest sum of kids who attended. This showed in how the school allocated it's budget as well, and no one felt that harder than the older students. Likewise, the staff clearly did not know how to control the amount of kids there were at the time, and on the receiving end of their frustration was often the older ones. Constantly, you are told that you are setting an example for the little ones, that you must show 'decorum'. How did this wind up panning out? Well, pretty trivial schoolground occurrences turn into suspension-tier offenses if you are old enough, and this can get real bad. One time, in 6th grade during recess, I was sitting on a hill when some kid's goldfish crackers got stomped on by this other kid. Because I was closest by when the first returned, they thought it was me, and told the supervisor. Random kids I had never seen before were coming up and vouching against me saying things like "Yes, it was you! I SAW you!", and of course, the recess supervisor believed them over me. I took a suspension for that one. Part of me believes they knew it wasn't me, but simply gave me the punishment anyway because the young ones were so convinced I did, and thought they deserved to see the troublemaker get their comeuppance. Once again, to set an example. Overall, I probably got suspended about 20-30 times in this school alone, all over occurrences about as crazy as that. You'd think with how often the school punishes their older students, those students would behave better, but that wasn't the case at all, the problem only got worse. Historically good students would also get blights on their record they'd otherwise not have, and you could tell at a certain point, they were failing to think of a reason to explain WHY. How that wound up escalating for me, was the staff managing to guilt trip me into believing that my poor behaviour and attendance was costing the school money (time = money, and you are wasting our time), asking "who do you think should be paying for that?", very clearly implying, I should be. $60 came out of my 12 year-old pocket over the course of a week, before my parents stepped in and told them just how extremely absurd that entire situation was. I have many stories to tell of this place in the 3 years I attended, but I think those are most relevant in showcasing just how difficult it was to be a student who enjoys leaving the house in the morning to attend Johnny Bright. When I was closing in on the end of my 7th year, and was told I'd need to switch schools for 8th, it felt almost as if it was a decision made deliberately to target us, the kids they'd been antagonizing for years. It wasn't, but it sure felt like it.

this school is the most cringe ive ever been to, very bad, not funny, i hope all the teachers have hot pillows, their grandmas get bullyed at bingo, their moms get bullyed at cooking club, their dads get bullyed at hope depot, they have sand in their bed, and that they arent allowed to go to mcdonalds any more. but guys, really. whats ligma, i still dont know

The kids here are racist and outstandingly rude. The teachers aren’t any better. Idgaf if you live near the area. Go someplace else. So l lucky i didn’t go here. My brother was not so lucky 0/5 stars.

I went here through K-4, (this post will be bout grade 4) In class, we did a presentation about our cultures which seems perfectly fine right? But when I went up to do mine and finished the presentation my teacher completely invalidated me. She said “I’ve never heard of your culture before so therefore it doesn’t exist” me being a grade 4 kid did not know what to say to that other then to stay quiet. those were definitely the days ❤️❤️

It's been more than five years since I've last attended this school, and I'm happy to say that Edmonton public schools really changed this place for the better. During my recent visit, the school seemed much cleaner compared to the last time I've been there, while the management was a stark improvement. The front desk was also very professional when I was picking up my friend, while the children seemed much, much happier than when I was there. Overall, I would full heartedly recommend this version of Johnny Bright to any parent, as this is a school I would have wanted to be in if I was an elementary student.