#17

A local issue that is of great concern to me at this moment is the controversial issue over Castle Park’s biology teacher being caught with Methamphetamine. This past week it was reported that Ms.Garcia a biology teacher here at Castle Park was caught with 3.55 grams of Meth at CVS and had been working at the school the following week without advising the school. As soon as the media found out of what had happened all sorts of news crews came to our school to interview students about what they thought about the incident. This made me remember about the previous “hazing” incident here at Castle Park where the news came for over a week asking students NOT teachers of what they knew about the incident. It made me realize that this is the reason why Castle Park is viewed as a “ghetto” school. Every time something “dreadful “happens at our school the news makes it seem as something horrifying or out of the ordinary. Due to over exaggeration Castle Park is made seem like a school filled with drugs and other problems, never as a progressing school filled with intelligent students. It worries me that due to these problems students will be affected when applying for Colleges/Universities or that students will not want to come to Castle Park due to the rumors.