GOD AWFUL school! I have had three kids attend this school (two have graduated). There have always been issues (teacher arrested/imprisoned for sex with student, campus police officer arrested for sex with students, science teacher having mental breakdown in class), but nothing like the problems I've had this year with my youngest son. I didn't know when I came on here to leave this review that there were already two other reviews about bullying, but they are ABSOLUTELY correct! My son (a junior this year) has dealt with SO much bullying and harassment, and the school has done absolutely nothing about it. NOTHING. I could go on and on because I have kept very detailed documentation, but the review would way be too long. Long story short, my son has been harassed for months by kids on the football team (which he joined briefly)-- by harassed I mean verbal harassment, threats and MULTIPLE incidents of vandalism to his car. When I called the first time to report the vandalism (which occurred on campus), I had to leave a message and was never called back. My son's car has been egged, paintballed, punctured through the trunk (a literal hole in the trunk that had to be repaired at a body shop), and lastly PAINT poured all over it. And not washable paint. Paint like house paint. Only one incident was caught on camera at the school, and it took TWO weeks for the students to be punished (with a measly few days of suspension). I'm sure that FINALLY happened only because I kept pressing the issue (my son was told by the vice-principal to stop asking if they knew who it was or what was going to be done about it). My son has had mustard thrown on him (stained his white pants), soap thrown on him, and he has been threatened. Of course the student who made the threat denied it, so again, nothing done. The campus police officer (if you can call her that), Officer Provencio is a freaking joke. I'm sure she works at the school because she couldn't hang on the streets. She is rude, arrogant, incompetent and thinks she is owed respect simply because she puts on her uniform every day. You can't have a conversation with her because she will talk over you and cut you off every chance she gets, then hang up on you (like a tantrum-throwing child) if you say something she doesn't like. I've dealt with two different vice principals, the learning director and even the useless principal, Mr. Sutton. There is absolutely NO consistency in discipline. My son was suspended from school for a "verbal altercation" after arguing with another kid in class over a seat, but the kid who threw mustard on my son got one day of in-house suspension. Mr. Sutton's advice to me was to make sure my son reports every incident to the office, "and the student involved will be addressed accordingly." My son DID report every incident (instead of taking matters into his own hands which became increasingly difficult NOT to do) and NOTHING happened. When I complained about my son getting soap thrown on him, this joke of a principal told me (and I quote) that the student who did it "was horse playing, throwing soap on several people," not just my son. How does that make it okay? You'd think that would make it worse, but maybe I'm thinking too logically. I get that it's only soap, but that's not the point. It is still unwelcome, which makes it harassment, especially when the asshole who did it has been involved in other incidents with my son.
My son quit the football team and dropped his optional zero period class to distance himself from all of this, but it didn't help. Finally we decided to un-enroll him from this treacherous, garbage school and do independent study. It's for the best, but it's still unfortunate that my son is going to miss his senior year with his friends because this school failed him.
I kept him home the entire last week of school besides a few minutes today. He went to campus today (the last day of school) only to turn in his computer and pick up paperwork to dis-enroll. He was there no longer than 20 minutes, and encountered some of the asshole kids (who were roaming around campus during class time with no consequences, as usual). He was back home no more than 10 minutes before the POS Officer Provencio showed up AT OUR HOUSE, telling my son there was "an anonymous tip" that he had a handgun in his glovebox. Are you freaking kidding me? I understand follow up is necessary, but it's not a coincidence that the first time my son was on campus in a week, after encountering these kids, there was a "tip." Nobody in our home owns a handgun, and we denied the officer permission to search his car or the home, and she was not happy about it. She basically told my son that he brought everything upon himself, that he was disrespectful and "wasn't raised right." She was just pissed her "authority" couldn't get her what she wanted. SOOOO glad I will never have to deal with this school again. read more