Pioneer Career & Technology Center - Shelby, Ohio

Mama B.

Despite what other reviews are (seems all negative ones are from past students) so I never go by that. I personally love this place. They have went beyond my expectations on helping my son get ready for next yr. . My daughter graduated from here last year. Her teachers was amazing! Her culinary teacher one of the best! Highly recommended

Lorrena B. (.

Very excellent idea of different school systems and tuning skills. However, my student attended Graphic Arts where she was mostly self-taught out of a book and videos that went with the book. Very little teacher interaction with the class book during non-lab time. The lab was great though! She and her class made some really neat things including posters, yearbook covers, flyers for other teachers in different departments, shirts, buttons, holiday greeting cards just to name a few. One thing I learned is every student has their own style. I thought art was art. I encouraged my student to go to Pioneer because I wanted her to have graphic art skills to start off in life after high school. However, her skills are in fine arts. I wish I would have understood the differences between styles of art.

Jillian C.

Worst school ever. I failed chemistry with a D and F throughout the quarters. (always got good grades in school) tried to get out of the class MULTIPLE times and they wouldn't let me even though everyone else was dropping bc the teacher is absolutely worthless. I took chemistry IN COLLEGE AT COLLEGE LEVEL and passed with a 98%. But Pioneer tried to say I was the problem? Teachers here are more worried if your talking in class and writing petty comments on progress book then actually teaching. I never recommend this school.

ShaiAnne S.

This school is alright I suppose. Better than my home school based on doing things physically. I just hate how boys can't have long hair unless it's pulled back. Color of hair is ridiculous. Uniforms are outrageous, and teachers are just plain idiotic. Some are fine, others are morons. I'd choose it over my home school, but wouldn't be my first choice. #kissmyass

Tianna H.

My GPA has dropped from a 3.2 to a 2.8 in the 2 years I have been here. All because the math teachers here are not very good teachers, I asked to get tutored and my math teacher told me I was not allowed. Also the rules are so strict and with the reasoning that they are simulating a work like environment is a false statement. This school is not about treating you like an adult and readying you for the work force, but from what I can see it is about making money and showing students that they are not superior to their teachers. Teachers can bend the rules however they wish to. Male students are not permitted to have facial hair but male teachers are allowed to have full grown beards. Girls can have as long of hair as they would like, but male students that have hair the touches their shoulders has to be in a pony tail. Very sexist in my opinion. Also this school is obsessed with making themselves look good, to the point of focusing about a week on what to tell sophomores to make them want to come here. If I ever have children, this is the last place I would want them.

John C.

Terrible school. I should have left my junior year but many promises were made to my Criminal Justice class so the majority of us wanting to leave would stay.. I could write a book to list the reasons for hating this school, like these other reviews, but I’ll just leave three mains reasons.

-Pioneer is not what it cracks up to be when you visit. I would say roughly 35%-40% of lab was spent doing homework or watching movies due to our instructor behind on grading assignments. Before any visitors, administration, or guests/kids would show up we were made to play the lab up as something great but was far from actually being. (Also Criminal Justice students are forced to give tours to 8th graders from surrounding schools for 1-2 weeks making students absent from classes.) (Additional side note, found it quite creepy how Juniors and Seniors were allowed to make innapropriate comments, flirt, and even going to the extent of asking 8th graders for their numbers. Even more disturbing this continued after instructors had been notified and quickly blew it off)

- I was personally chosen out of the whole Criminal Justice lab for our Skills USA competition and would have moved on to State competitions but did not get enough points due to Pioneer being too cheap to buy the lab Class A uniforms which docked me enough points to let others with lower senerio scores to beat me.

-Will not be listing names but our English teacher was overconfident and cocky due to thinking she was the real deal for working in a prison environment. Funny thing is she was given the choice to quit or to be fired while working at the prison. This individual also would not follow school rules and guidelines when it came to grading even when told to by administrators which became quite annoying. The administration all have a cocky attitude and act as if they are superior but with our English teacher it was most prominent.

Stephanie A.

The school is a freaking joke. Most Students in my child class are disrespectful. Even to the teacher. Destroyed my child project and still don't know who it is. So my child had to start over. Only reason for one star bc I give it to the teachers! I would say more but it's pointless like trying to get a teenager to clean their room.

Trevor S.

Pioneer CTC is one of the worst things I have ever done with my life. They promise you an education that you can't beat, A fantastic future ahead of you, Certifications towards your future career , and teachers who genuinely care, but really all of this is a lie.

The biggest problem I have with this place is that they say students will be professional and learn professionalism towards their career. But in all honesty they don't care if you are professional because they're going to treat you like children either way. If they think that a Job Employer is going to baby you and watch everything you do then they have a bad idea of what a career center, and a career are.

The teachers at this school really do not care if you're falling behind or do not understand something. They are more worried about impressing their supervisors with a fake act of an educator. They do not teach their students at all. Take for example in my Lab IT Support we have been reviewing what we learned last year for the past half of the year instead of learning anything new. The whole reason behind a second year is not to waste it with reviewing what you learned last year, it is to proceed with the stuff you did not learn so you can learn everything that you can in the 2 years that you are at this school.

In my general courses we do what we are suppose to be doing except they move so fast that they don't care if people are behind. Not every teacher is like this but a good majority of them are. They feel that if everyone fails the test well so be it then, it must have been the students fault because they're the teacher and they taught it to us, so it's the whole classes fault that we failed not the teacher.

The certifications that you are suppose to take you never do. We haven't even started to look at any of them. Instead they tell you yeah we will get there eventually but never talk about it again. In our school fees we pay $100+ to go towards taking the exam but if we never take it then they don't give the money back instead they keep it and don't tell you that we never took it.

In the end this school isn't worried about how well their students do at this place. Instead they are more worried about making the superintendent and the supervisors happy just so they can keep a job where they don't do anything. If I had my choice I would have never left my home school to come to a place where we never learn and are treated like children.