I'm in 6th grade at Kalama, and there are things about the school that don't feel right to me. There are a lot of fights, and it seems like they don't always get handled the way they should. That makes it hard to feel safe and focus during the day. I've also noticed moments where certain adults or situations make students feel uncomfortable, like too much staring or not respecting personal space. On top of that, most kids don't feel comfortable talking to adults about what's going on, which makes it even harder for problems to get fixed. I don't know everything for sure, but I know how it feels, and it's something that should be taken seriously. Students should feel safe, respected, and able to speak up if something feels off. read more

I go to kalama and the 6th grade teachers are great, some of the best teachers I've ever had. but there is one teacher Mr. Diegez, he is the 6th grade P.E teacher, and he has made many girls uncomfortable including myself. He looks at the girls, their buts, and chests and, he where's sunglasses inside so don't know what hes looking at. I have reported him before but nothing was done, they said they would follow up with me and they never did. Now I will tell you story's from my class. In my class the boys seemed to be his favorite, and to him it seemed like they did nothing wrong. For one instance there was a kid who told one of my friends he was going to deport her back to Jamaica and another girl to go back to Africa. We told him and he said let it go ,and never talked to the boy, or anyone not staff not his parents not anyone. The boys in that class, got the girls stuff wet one time and he did not seem to care except for, when a girl who stuff had gotten wet she ran down to a security person and told her what happed. Auntie Jessie was the security guard that she told, and she came up and asked what had happend and. Mr.deigez stared to get mad at the boys, but the second she left he asked the girls why we always have to bicker with the boys, and to let it go and that we were overreacting. There was one more time were one girl had hit another and she was crying and we had told Mr. Diegez that she was slapped and he didnt call anyone so no one knows that she was slapped except for the people in the class. I have talked to many girls in his class that have similar things going on. He has many reports made against him and not one has been taken seriously. I dont care who dosent belive me but i do care that i dont want this to happen to any other girl in his class. That's all. DONT ENROLL UR GIRL FOR 6TH GRADE THEY WILL HAVE THIS CREEPO THEACHER WHO WILL LOOK AT THEM JUST WAIT TILL 7TH GRADE!!!!! read more

When I went to Kalama from 6th to the beginning of 8th I had both Mr Coffeen (Sex Ed) and Mr Diaguez (PE) both men were weird and stared at underage girl's chests. Mr Coffeen would touch girls (Collar bone, Lower Back, Etc) and when I had Mr Diaguez as an ELEVEN year old he'd stare at my chest, and walked into the girl's locker room while everyone was changing and was looking at them, it's not okay, and when I lead a petition for the school to do something about him, I was met with an email home essentially calling me a liar when most girls in my grade were coming up to ME and telling me they've experienced weird stuff from him too, as someone who has been assaulted bc of something not being caught early on I am VERY mad about this, I do not care if people think I'm lying, what I DO care about is possibly preventing someone from having to go through what I went through BEFORE it can happen! It's never too early to catch something, it's better to catch it early than to catch it when it's too late. read more

Went to kalama school this morning to help with the baking of cookies. It was such a fun experience helping the music program. My niece is a 6th grader in Mr.Quejas band program. She's really enjoying it. He's such an awesome teacher I've heard so many wonderful things about him. We were in the cafeteria it was really clean and nicely kept. Huge eating area for the keiki to eat.. read more

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i honestly had a horrible time at this school, i started out already scared out of my mind because of the horrible rep at this school, on my first day i had a 7th grade try to fight me over looking at her for too long and staff did nothing. there was plenty more experiences like this, the racism, substance abuse, fighting and disrespect is truly out of hand. i learned that half the kids are disrespectful because they can't stand that school and the other half just because nothing is being done about it. the main problem in my opinion is the kid's, there's so much drama that the staff literally cannot keep up. I spent my time with a lot of teachers and almost ALL of them have complained to me about the students/their job. all of it is so unorganized and messy didn't even feel like school, can't remember a time where i truly liked or even loved this school. read more

This school has a bad rap, ladies watch out for Mr.coffeen he's kinda creepy he WILL STARE AND TOUCH, all the teachers are pretty nice (I'm an 8th grader and have been going for 3 years). Band programs pretty dang good and the art program is amazing. The main problem is the students, the teachers are nice if you're nice to them. This is a kinda sketchy school but if you stay out of trouble then you don't get in trouble, the only terrible thing is the schools rap and the food bring food to school because 50% of the time the food is pretty atrocious. read more

they have weird teachers and when the kids report them to admin nothing happens. there's a 7th grade health teacher that I've heard about from multiple people and had bad experiences with as well. he stares at young girls chests, tries to make sex ed extra uncomfortable for the girls, and touches the girls in uncomfortable ways (shoulder rubs, lower back, collar bones, etc.) and after hearing about this admin had nothing to say. read more

Some of the teachers have no respect for the children and give the children problems that some kids can't actually figure out.