Life on the Outside - by D.M.

Students should really be thankful for what they have in CCPA, because here in Montebello Intermediate School (MOI), there are fights almost every day. Cops come at all school days and hours, sometimes even the teachers and students "get down". Many parents get into fights with the teachers, deans, principles, and counselors!! Can you believe all the drama!?

The teachers don't really care about the students. If you don't turn in an assignment, for them it’s just one less paper to grade. The only sports in school are only the ones in P.E and sometimes we don't even do any sports and we just sit and take notes.

We have three programs in the school. They are ICES, Avid, and Project Safety Net. I don't really know what the First two stand for, but Avid is a program, more of a class really, that "helps" you for high school but you just do your homework there and the tutors just text on their phones!! ICES, is the only after school program that the school has, and I don't really know what they do there because I'm not in that program.

Project Safety Net, is a "rehabilitation" program for the drug addicts. I put rehabilitation in quotes, because most of my friends are druggies and they are in that program but they aren't receiving any help. They still do drugs!!

In this school, there is no money at all for books, computers, field trips, dances or anything else really. We had dances every Friday with a D.J named Charles, and it was awesome. The thing is that now there is no money for the school to continue doing that. There are only 3 computers in each class, and we have to pay for the field trips out our own pockets.

I really miss that school, because everyone gets a laptop, there are many. many more activities, and things we can participate in. There are many worse things that will just get me tired of writing here.