1102 Herring Ave
Port Neches, TX 77651

We entrusted our child to your school with the expectation of quality education and a safe environment. We sent you a student who excelled in all her classes, whom we raised with love and confidence, and who possesses a beautiful soul. We are deeply concerned about your leadership and handling of this matter. When our child reported being threatened by other students, both male and female, with intentions to "jump" her, and facing verbal harassment and character defamation, your response was inadequate. Advising her to simply "let them talk" and providing your own definition of the word jump as a one-on-one situation does not address the seriousness of the threats.It is crucial to recognize that children may resort to extreme measures such as suicide when they feel unheard. Those in leadership roles must listen and take appropriate action.Bullying prevention starts at home and within school. Central Middle School must improve its approach to #stopbullying

My daughter went here 4 years and the 4th year was the worst experience ever. Her teachers were allowing kids to bully her and they even participated in the mistreatment. They couldn't explain the directions of a project to her, so they threw her project in the trash. All the administration called to tell me what they did and wanted to punish her further!

Though I love this school and have mostly good memories, this school just doesn't care about the mental health of their students. If a high-ranking, straight-A student's grades drop significantly and without notice, they won't do anything to check on them to make sure everything is ok with them. What they'll do instead is reprimand the student for not trying hard enough, being lazy, etc. Instead of noticing how unusual it is for a student that in the past worked extremely hard and had grades that reflect their work ethic, they just assume it's laziness and nothing else. It won't even cross their minds that maybe the student has developed a mental health problem. A problem that said student doesn't know how to handle or where to begin asking for assistance because we have to remember that they're kids and they usually won't even know that's a mental health problem to begin with. They'll just chalk it up to extreme nervousness, being off your game, or a temporary lack of motivation when really it's something much deeper. This school would always tell us that if a student's grades suddenly fell, they would immediately check on them; usually to see if it's drug related. That was a lie because all of this happened to me during my senior year and not one person from the school tried to truly see what was going on; I didn't even understand what was going on with me until years later. All I got were certain teachers yelling at me and getting angrier with me as my mental health crisis started to worsen over time. It doesn't matter how good of a student you are because these people couldn't care less about you.