Dr. Phillips High School

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  This was a great high school until Dr. 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.
  By Samantha St. Peter, July 18, 2017

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