D school ?

Bayshore has received a D as a school grade for the past 3 years. Do you feel this is an accurate assessment of our school, our students, our teachers and our administrators? If you were principal, what steps would you take to improve our school grade? How would you motivate everyone to try harder and work more? What things need to change? What things need to be added?

Our school receiving a D the last 3 years i think is an inaccurate assessment of our school. I think that Bayshore has many very bright kids, but the other people weigh them down. I think that to many kids in our school don't care enough to try on the FCAT and in school. Which in turn brings down the people who try there best and care about school. I think that there are some weak teachers in our school but for the most part we have a good teaching staff. As a principal i don't really know what i would do. Our administrators have tried many different things to try and get kids to care about there scores and to try on the FCAT, But for the most part have come up short. I think that bribing a kid to do his or her work is ridiculous. They should be motivated enough to want to better themselves and to do good with there life. I don't think that there is anything we can really do to motivate kids who aren't already motivated. Some people are just helpless.