William W. Hall Academy

The staffing at this school is why this school is failing our children. They are ruining this school and not giving our children the proper education or resource's. Especially for our children with IEP's. They do not encourage parent involvement and if they allow you in the school they call security or have another member following you around even for a conference like you are an inmate. Their is no leadership. The principle is always out of the office. There concern is to cover each other's back and lie. My child has told me many of wrong doings and when I ask about this mistreatment they say it's not true. They discuss private information about IEP's. One of the secretaries were fired for money laundering. Students reported inappropriate actions they witness by two teachers who were put on leave and then able to return. A teacher hit student and was fired. I witness a teacher looking at school girls inappropriately. This same person said he only comes to get a check. One teacher has stated that he was a trashman and was hired and has no college credits. Two teachers told me there is lead in the water. The cafeteria has roaches my child said they all have seen them and one of them said that the kitchen lady smashed it in the food and scooped it out. This is just a little bit of what is going on in this school. The principle had it out for my disabled son that is in a wheelchair dedicated aid and told me that he went around collecting information from all my son's teachers and she is no longer with the school, but he wanted to insist on it had nothing to do with her working with my son. She is good with my child and she understood and help him understand his assignments that I would not even understand and sometimes could not help him. She would explain it to me break down the information and give me examples to help, because I was not getting any of this from the teachers. He doesn't even have a one on one. He is put in a normal class environment with no additional help only his work is modified. He has a specialist come in for math but he told me his job is not to give my son the extra help he needs he teaches the whole class and this he said what he was told to do. The class has a teacher and he is special needs so in other words you're not their to help him. With that being said he complained about his aid helping him keep up he can't even see the boards in the class and his seat is all the way in the back so he won't be in the way of the other children and can fit because the desk are so close together. Did I mention that this math specialist is also his case manager that I was not even aware of until two months after school. With him being that he has also stated to me that he has went around and spoken to my child's teacher and said that he needs to be treated like everyone else. Because of my complaints they have been doing things to make it more difficult for my son. They even tried to ban me from coming into the building when I made no threats, or touched anyone, nothing of any sort. I threatened to handle this with the school board then it became a misunderstandings with one of the school officials. Check the scores for this school this is a public school and it just started accepting special needs students and with there scores being so low for there general students. What kind of education do you think they are providing special needs student? Get more involved, ask questions, ask to see credentials, ask if you can be sit in on you're child's classes. This will not change unless we as parents become more involved, this school does not encourage this. They have so much that they are hiding and covering up.