2255 SE Abernathy Court
Pt Orchard, WA 98366

My children went to this school and the staff is amazing.... Wouldn't go to any other school. Teachers are very personable and care deeply about students and their families!

The teachers at Marcus Whitman Middle School mostly are very difficult to deal with. I say deal with because trying to work with them to help your student is a HUGE challenge. My boys have been attending this school now for two years and we're seriously considering pulling both boys out of school to do home schooling. I get that it's the pandemic and all and we're trying to learn via remote learning, but some of these teachers have ridiculous standards!! A 6th grade teacher that only allows SEVEN days to fix homework issues (unless it's turned in blank, in which case you get a big fat zero). As a parent, we aren't getting updates on our students for 2 weeks. At this point, the assignments can't be fixed regardless, so what's the point of the update?? These teachers are treating 6th graders (that are new to having multiple teachers mind you!!) like they are in college. Some teachers do care and are willing to help the 6th graders learn and work with the parent. These other teachers are ruining it for students though when they have such harsh rules and don't actually want to help the student or work with the parent. I actually had a teacher refuse to meet with me via zoom after my son's class and then gave me some longwinded answer that wasn't even addressing my question that I sent via email (because this teacher refused to meet via zoom with both my son and myself). I'll be taking a complaint to the school on Monday to show them how much communication I've had with just this one teacher (let alone the rest) and how much time I've had to spend communicating with her. I see now why many are doing homeschooling. It's just too frustrating trying to "work with" these teachers.

This school is a dropout factory. The district changes standards for graduation every other year making nearly impossible to graduate. Kids are harassed by the schools security guards who are heavy handed cornering kids in bathrooms and doing inappropriate searches even against district policy. My son was threatened by another student and the district did an investigation than damaged the police’s investigation which caused then perp to go in punished. If I had it to do over again I would have moved elsewhere.