Recently there were specific events that happened this past year at Castle Park High School. I feel as if the media has just attacked our school in each of the cases. Each article I read only discriminates CPHS; none complement CPHS’ recent achievements. It seems all the trouble started after Mr. Ochoa (our formal principle) was accused of making illegal grade changes to students and taking funds out of clubs without the districts permission. The media seemed to take a liking to Castle Park and they soon returned after a few football players were part of a hazing incident. The media still didn’t have enough and came back after a biology teacher was caught with meth.
At the end of my sophomore year at CPHS it seemed that Mr. Ochoa was being accused of doing illegal grade changes and illegally stealing money from clubs and sports. Turned out these accusations were true but the way the media described the events were so foul the media made Mr. Ochoa as a tyrant. Yes Mr. Ochoa did grade changes but they were for students who did a credit recovery class during spring break. What the controversy was that Mr. Ochoa accidently used the wrong document for the grade change which caused the old grades not to appear on the new transcript instead of both the new and old grades.
The following summer the media once again attacked Mr. Ochoa with the accusations that he took money from the school. It seemed Mr. Ochoa pulled out funds from certain clubs and sports to pay off money for schooled owed. The thing I believe that hurt Mr. Ochoa the most was he was a formal football player at CPHS and a great amount of the money taken was spent on football and cheerleading. Those weren’t the only things he spent the money on though, Mr. Ochoa paid off Advanced Placement test for students who could not afford to pay them.
In the beginning of my junior year things just got worst after a few football players started “horse playing” a little too rough. It seemed that after their football practice a few players got a little too excited and hazed their fellow teammate with a pencil. If it wasn’t enough our new principle Virginia Sandoval-Johnson made things worse by leaving a voicemail to the student’s houses of CPHS. The voicemail enraged parents because the voicemail sugarcoated the incident and mislead wrong info to parents. Both the hazing incident and the voicemail were recorded in the media.
One month later the media came back this time with a surprise. It seemed CPHS’ Ms. Garcia was arrested for having meth. After being released on bail Ms. Garcia continued teaching without anyone knowing. One the police called to inform CPHS’ administration they had now idea and put Ms. Garcia on leave without pay. It seemed the media was so into looking to attack CPHS It seemed the media new off the news before most teachers.
So far CPHS has had a bad year in publicity but what the media has failed to inform the public is that CPHS is at its top in academics. This is what concerns me as the media blabber on the negatives of CPHS they fail to notice the positives. I’m hoping that these stories don’t affect any students life when applying for something whether its college or for a job
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