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| - My son has attended since this school opened. 1. They charge a 50 dollar a year insurance fee to use the mandatory laptops. These are netbooks, actually and there is a 100 dollar deductible on top of the 50/yr insurance charge. 2. A student failed to return a netbook at the end of the year and the school called the sheriff to try and file charges of stolen property. This is actually in Pinal County Sheriff logs and the school does not deny or apologize for this behavior. I asked them about it and was told it was like stealing a computer. I said, "Oh, ok, so if it were a few textbooks, would you call the police?"
From my experience with Florence schools, they are simply in San Tan Valley to reap the financial benefits to their town using our resources.
They charge children for parking and outrageous fees. I have never seen so many fundraisers and money making schemes as I have in Florence.
You see, I am not ignorant. My children have attended Scottsdale, Higley, Gilbert, and Florence schools.
A young man was suspended from school for cracking the security on his computer to change the background. Really? OMG. Someone call the Feds. That is crazy. He should have been given a grant or scholarship to pursue a Comp Sci degree.
As far as scholarships after graduation: DO NOT expect any assistance from this school.
Their big visitors on college day are the community colleges, CAC, and some other local schools.
Counselors are not helpful with paperwork, they do not take the initiative to help your child. My son was in the top 5 and we had to do everything ourselves.
So, if you do have the unfortunate circumstance of your child attending Poston Butte and he or she is graduating in 2013, take heed and start your scholarship search and admission paperwork for colleges prior to Dec.
Also, try Questbridge. This year, in Mesa, a counselor who cared, assisted a young lady get 250K scholarship to Notre Dame. She was just going to go to ASU. In our case, we did get an offer from ASU - 9k/yr. However, since we used the Common Application and got our paperwork in by deadline, we also were offered 24k/YR from Worchester Poly and 37k/yr from USD.
So, if your child or someone you know attends Poston Butte, know this - they are grooming cashiers instead of accountants, mechanics rather than engineers and you must initiate the search, waivers, paperwork, admissions paperwork, transcripts, and scholarships on your own. Don't expect anyone from this public school to help.
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