Dr. Phillips High School

While the school is unclean and some of the administrators are on a power trip there is no other school I'd rather be at, Coach Moushami is an amazing yoga teacher and one of the many redeeming features at that school, the chorus program is unlike anything I've ever had the honor of being apart of, and the opportunities and class choices are limitless. I'm happy with the time I spent at Dr Phillips and I've made memories there that will last a lifetime. There truly is no other school quite like it.

This was a great high school untilnDr. Susan Knight was made principal. She clearly has some issues with abusing authority and is incredibly rude towards students, staff, and parents alike. She acts like a dictator, instead of treating her peers and the young adults whom are unfortunately under her “lack of care” with any amount of respect. She also seems to have an incredible paranoia about former students returning to campus, even if only to visit a former teacher or pick up a younger sibling. Dr. Phillips High School itself is a fairly decent school. It could benefit from a more centralized layout, and not every teacher is a superstar, but overall it can be a great place to go to high school. Unfortunately, Dr. Knight is the one major blemish on this school’s current appeal. She’s clearly universally unpopular amongst students, parents, and staff and has even been booed by parents and students alike at events such as graduation. The OCPS board of education needs to take a hint and remove this woman from the position of power that she is clearly unfit to wield before it completely blows up in her face, metaphorically speaking. Ruling with unnecessary aggression and unjust punishments while commanding respect and obedience is nowhere near a proper way to behave, especially around young adults whom are in the process of undertaking the already incredibly emotionally and physically tumulus experience of growing up and maturing into a fully-grown autonomous adult.

I went to Dr. Phillips Sch. today with a close friend because she was dropping off balloons to her niece. We checked in at the gate, she told us to go to the front by the flag post. Her niece was already outside just finishing up lunch I believe. She ran to us and they started hugging each other. Not even 4 min this lady came to us with rage on her face, the first thing she said was we're we fromer students we both said no, we're almost 30 but I don't even think she heard us, then you guys need to leave and told her niece to go to the office. Then she stated I'm the principal I don't care what you have to say and you need to leave. I was out of words I never seen a principal carry themselves like that, most part not even listening to us we are people just like her. She called for the police repeatedly as if we were trying to cause trouble. In my mind I'm thinking this lady is trying to get us arrest, I'm a mother that work everyday and just happen to be out going with a friend to drop off a present. This was the worst experience I ever had, I myself will not ever attend anything anymore as long as she's the principal.

DP sucks,Their rule sucks too.You cant be late to school or you'll get a detention or a referral and the teachers are alright but if your 1 second late they would tell you to get a pass and you get a referral or Saturday school detention,they used to give you a warning but they say we should know not to be late.the AP program is great and the performing arts center but other than that DP has a lot of fights in the third quarter,recently there was a fight all this week and 2 fights happend before and after school.the students are rude and they don't care about their education and half of the school do/sell Weed and half of it is a distraction i think there should be a new rule and the school should have a drug test because i cant stand that the bus and students smelling like weed and that some students become a distraction but whats good is they have trash cans everywhere in the school and that students can stop littering and we all have a great education and the principal is great...but all together DP is not all that good except the sports.i suggest Olympia HS.

I've been here since 2015, and I'll be part of the Class of 2018. Ultimately, it's high school. The only thing that truly grinds my gears is the fact that some teachers do not care about actually teaching us stuff, I mean isn't that what your getting paid for? The bathrooms do tend to be dirty so you're gonna have to get used to that. I'm not the hugest sports guy either, but the sports teams here are actually pretty good. Try to catch at least a game or two at some point. P.S. More than half of these reviews are either off-topic, poorly written, or are straight trolling kids from different schools.