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    Olympia High School

    Olympia High School

    1.8(6 reviews)
    0.9 mi

    I was a student here at OHS and graduated in 2025, I just have to say, a student named Chase…read moreO'Brien (musty dusty white boy who thought he was a gangster even though he's.. really not.) and a science teacher I had there made my experience worse. Firstly, Chase would constantly bully me to the point where I thought even breathing a wrong way would trigger him. And the thing is, I have autism and he went for me, why? because I was different than him. Second, one of the staff here, (earth and science teacher) has been absolutely terrible to me, she'd make me redo a project so many times, then had the nerve not to congratulate me for working so hard, in fact, THE PRINCIPAL HAD TO DO IT FOR HER, which made me feel terrible as I've been stuck in that class after school to work on it with her and I at least wanted her to be somewhat proud of me, but no, the principal had to do it for her which made me feel absolutely terrible, so I'm glad I got out of that class and never looked back. I've been wanting to talk about Chase for a while now, but I never found the courage, but now that I'm out of the school and I'm sure some of the staff and students have forgotten about me, I can FINALLY say this. So, if you're a woman (students have said Chase treats women like trash.), have a mental disability, are a different gender identity besides from the male to female binary, or are just simply existing, STAY CLEAR OF CHASE, HE'LL BE YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk, and now I'll forget about this school once again and hopefully pray my little brother survives. (btw, amongst the list of people i listed, im part of the 'different gender identity besides from the male to female binary' and 'have a mental disability' groups as stated before.)

    I found this kid in the bathroom... Idk who it is and why…read morethey're in the toilet but it really freaked me out and none of the councelers did anything about it.

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    North Thurston Public Schools

    North Thurston Public Schools

    1.0(1 review)
    2.7 mi

    My son has autism and has communication disability. The school district is unfair and unjust how…read morethey spend money in the special education department. District allows Donnita Hawkins who is special education director to waste money by inviting Attoeney to school IEP meeting when parent brings non-attoeney advocate to facilitated IEP meeting. It has been our experience that Mrs. Hawkins, Special Education Director is very controlling behavior. We had IEE done and she would not allow IEP team to discuss the report. She does not allow us to discuss outside provider information. When complaint of her is brought forward to Karen Remy-Anderson her boss, Superintendant Deb Clemens, Board of Directors and Equity at NTSD. They are All indifferent. They are all reinforcing her negative behaviors without corrective actions. As result Mrs. Hakwins continues to abuse District money on Due Process and brining Attoeney to IEP meetings. She had at least invited 5 or more times school Attoeney to school meetings. Mrs. Hawkins has been very proactive against parent involvement in education. Mrs. Hawkins belief and values "quarterly meetings to discuss progress is more than sufficient to meet student's needs and provide free appropriate education (FAPE). Typically developing student are able to access how the students are doing anytime through skyward. At NTSD, there is bad attitude when parents wants to be involved in student academic. We need some positive change. If Mrs. Hawkins had value of working collaboratively with Parents she would not need to have an Attoeney to school meeting. I believe she is abusing her power and district money. The district gives her unlimited fund for her abuse of district money for Attorney use. Karen Remy-Anderson is 504 Compliance Officer and she is Executive Director of Student Support and Special Education. She will NOT come to IEP meeting to supervise Donnita Hakwins. She has favoritism of Donnita Hawkins. Mrs. Remy-Anderson does not value Parent partnership. She doesn't want parents to know the how the students are doing at school academically. She supports Donnita Hakwins. Dawn Long is Human Resource Director and she Provided response to parent question during Ambassador training on 2-1-2018 witness by 14 ambassadors and Board of Director president that it would be unfair for NTSD to handle complaint of school personnel who is in leadership role. . She talked about how district will have favoritism due to working relationship, and that there will be biases treatment and it would be unfair to the person who brought forth the complaint against the school. I am sharing this experience to increase awareness of what is actually happening in special education department at NTSD. I would love to see some major positive changes. I would like to see increase academic instructional materials, increase collaboration with Parents, and be accountable. I would like to see the leadership model what they speak and write about. The purpose of my review and feedback is to increase awareness what is the REALITY of what is really happening at NTSD. I would highly recommend that Dawn Long, Human Resource Director to provide evidence to the Parents of special education and to the Board of Director her training on working collaboratively with Parents without Discrimianton and biases. It is my recommendation that NTSD provide mandatory Education to Donnita Hawkins, Greg Goble, Paul Dean, Karen Remy-Anderson and Dawn Long regarding cultural competency, autism, and working collaboratively with families of students with disability. There is huge disparity in Special education. Lack of instructional materials at Timberline High School. To this date, the school has not provided any educational material for WA-AIM test preparation for my son. No one can make them do anything when they do not want to do it. There is lack of accountability and their policy and procedure is just for looks. The culture of NTSD special education department is not parent friendly process. The school talks about what district is doing but they themselves can't model the behavior first. I would recommend NTSD to issue Dawn Long to take mandatory corrective action by taking 150 hours of working collaboratively with Patents of different culture. How to Problem solve issues without discrimination. She does not have the human connection to be in Director position. She makes very poor decision making. She doesn't talk with Parents who brings concerns. I believe she lacks the communication skills and tools to be Director of Human Resource. Mrs. Long's behavior is very concerning. She lacks people skills. She discriminates Parent of different culture. Intent: increase awareness and asking for improvement in special education department. Increase parent engagement, and increase parent partnership. Disclaimer: This website allows us to share our experiences or knowledge in which this organization participated.

    Nova School - elementaryschools - Updated May 2026

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