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Ben Gamla is a joke and when a student gets blamed for something the security will only listen to the teacher and not the student. The teachers kick students out for laughing or just speaking a different language. The school itself is disgusting, there is dust, gum, hair, drawings and bugs everywhere. The girls bathrooms are just gross and there is always one that is locked or broken. Security sits outside of the boys bathroom downstairs and girls bathroom upstairs. We have had about 8 different security guards in the past 3 years. I have had 3 algebra teachers, 3 geometry teachers, 2 reading teachers, 2 P.E teachers, and other teachers just quit or get fired for things we don’t know. When teachers get tired of their students they call security to come and get them, they don’t know what to do with them so they put them in the office or in a desk outside in the middle of the hallway. The security never wants to listen to students or what their side of the story is. For the last 2 years 8th grade had a graduation and a dance and this year they want to take us to the movies and bowling.If this school is an option please don’t consider it, you or your child will hate it or like it only because we don’t learn, but when the EOC comes they just throw packets at us because they didn’t teach us enough. We aren’t allowed to use our phones during lunch or listen to music. The administration sometimes keep phones overnight or even for a weekend. At the beginning of the year we had an option to pay $75 to dress however we liked on Fridays and now our jeans have ”too many holes”, our ”leggings are too tight”, Our “shirts are too low”, and only girls get told this. The guys can wear tank tops, jeans, joggers, pretty much anything without getting dress coded. Most teachers also don’t dress professionally at all and sometimes refuse to grade work or don’t give you enough time to do makeup work. If I could give this school less than one star I would, but it’s not possible. It feels like a prison.

DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILD TO THIS SCHOOL!!! I attended ben gamla for 7th and 8th grade and I can honestly say it was the worst two years of my life. Ive always been a straight A student from kindergarten to 6th grade, but as soon as I started going here ,I felt myself getting dumber and dumber. The teachers are ATROCIOUS. I am still surviving on a 6th grade education. The only reason I passed the state test was because I taught myself everything. The staff is extremely unhelpful and disrespectful. They don’t care about education or your well being, they just care if you made it in time to class in the small 3 minutes they give us to walk across the school. There is not one teacher in this school who can function properly. Teachers and staff are always being fired and constantly replaced. Last school year, my friend had 7 math teachers come and go. This year, I had 2 english teachers, 2 math teachers (one of them was a psychotic, abusive maniac), 2 principals, 3 PE coaches, and many more that I did not have. Teachers don’t know how to handle their kids, so when they get too tired of them they call “security” to escort them to sit in a room and do nothing. They took away the privilege to use our cell phones during lunch and in between classes for no reason at all. The new principal is a sexist, homophobic, and unapproachable woman. This tragic excuse doesn’t even deserve one star.

I will always love bengamla however, this school is not what I expected. The uniforms are very overpriced. The school lies about being tuition free and is the worst school you could go to. It is a very small school with only about 400 kids. The school has no money in the budget for sports and is very strict on dress code. I honestly believe that this school was better when it was in plantation. The staff treats you very poorly. There are no lockers so you have to carry all of your books up and down the stairs. Of coarse I can’t really blame the school that much since it is functioning a little better then last year 2015, much improvements are needed. I have also noticed how teachers don’t collaborate and create a time for tests so students are less stressed out.. In most other schools,things are very different. I hope it gets better but until then. Lions ROAR ON!!