This was important for me to write so that other parents can beware regarding this school and how they failed my son!!!
My son is currently in 5th grade and was a student at Graceway since first grade. But in the last 2 yrs they have had so many staff and teacher turnovers that it is not shocking that so many students do not return the following year.
My son has unique abilities ( SM, Anxiety Disorder, ADD) and the school enrolled my son knowing about his disabilities since they had all his medical records from his Doctor and Therapist. Last year I fought to get him a 504 plan because the new teacher they had hired was rude, condescending, and sarcastic. Not just with my son, but also with me. I had several meetings with her to see if we could solve the issue she had with my son, but she would always deny that she did anything and would put the blame on my son. At the end of the school year me and another parent had a meeting (also experiencing issues with this teacher) with the principal and told her our concerns regarding this teacher and how she was treating our children, and the principal just defended the teacher and brushed our concerns off.
This principal had a target on my son because she was not pleased with me personally. I have never did anything wrong but to voice my concerns on how kids were not treated equally. But instead of them caring about my concerns, they kicked my son out with just a phone call. I did not get any warning, or written correspondence, very unprofessional and uncaring. My son was truant from being academically learning for 2 weeks until I found him another school. He was terminated for no apparent reason.
But likely 1. The teacher did not want to accommodate my son's disability. 2. The principal was not fond of me wanting her to do her job and not judge my son or I because we are Latinos.
There are "white privileges" going on in this school and I would not want any other ethnic families to go through what my son has and my family My son has been traumatized by this because he feels he did something wrong, when he didn't, the school failed him. read more