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Ewell, MD 21824

I was a student at this high school until i was Illegally unrolled from it after needing to be medically excused from school due to a previous surgery, before hand i was bullied for a couple schools years, multiple kids calling me a school shooter and falsely accusing me of saying i was going to "shoot up the school". The school did nothing to stop it, and even after calling the police and having me investigated it showed that i never stated that i was going to shoot up the school and the incident that i was reportedly said to have said it was when i was on a bus with the main people calling me names like school shooter, during the bus ride i barely said anything to anyone since i didn't like any of the kids on the bus where i was sitting; and even after all the evidence showing that i never wanted to shoot up the school i was never apologized to for the false accusations nor was there ever any statement made by the school or board of education clarifying that the accusations were based on false information. Going forward the next school year after being kept from attending school for the second semester, once i came back to school i was put in ALC, basically put in ISS which was worse though since i couldn't leave that room, but due to the medical issue i had and still have from the surgery i had i could get a 15 minute at most break to walk around the outside of the school with someone since i could not go anywhere on school grounds without supervision from a staff member. I was treated worse than if i was locked up in a juvenile detention center (kid jail) or jail how would i know well i spent a year locked up from 12 to 13 i was treated nicer by Juvenile JAIL than a school meant to educate young students and adults but instead was treated like an prisoner and when given the opportunity discard via illegally unenrolling me because i was out of school dealing with the pain left by my surgery and because i went 10 days without touching any school work or even logging into my school account which i've gone longer than that multiple times in previous school years with no punishment they chose to unenroll me without asking or even having permission and during all of this we rarely received any assistance with what to do during the whole ordeal.

As a parent with two older children who attended "regular" mainland schools and my youngest two who have attended Ewell School since pre-k and prior, I find Ewell School to be a wonderful, loving environment for the island children. It certainly helps when the teacher and teacher's aides know the parents personally of each and every child. The teachers (aides included in that title) know what level of conduct is allowed and expected by each parent. The small teacher/student ratio allows for extra help where needed and allows for teachers to explain in detail to parent where a child may need extra help at home as well. My children are now nearing the end of their time at Ewell School and I am apprehensive about sending them to the mainland for the balance of their education as the Crisfield school's reputations are not that good with many of them even failing to hit AYP every year. While there may be some of the programs missing at Ewell School (i.e. gifted and talented, etc) and be no dedicated physical education or sports programs, I do not think my children could have gotten a better elementary education in any other Somerset County school than they have under the tutelage of Miss Janet and staff at Ewell School!

SIS is a wonderful middle school. The staff members work together with each parent to obtain the best education for the children.