11806 40th Avenue S
Seattle, WA 98168

If your kid gets bullied here, none of the advisors or the principal will do anything about it. Even after you file a restraining order against the bully with the Tukwila Police Department. I have proof.

Tukwila is a community of cultural diversity and low income families. Showalter is the onlyMS in Tukwila which all age groups within the Tukwila community go to from the 3 elementary school Tukwila contains. Showalter lacks resources and leadership. They need more good teachers like Ms. Gill and Mr. Page who deserve competitive pay. Otherwise, Showalter consumes paraeducators with little to no experience in child development or education and teachers with teaching degrees but little to no community outreach, people skills and professionalism. My experiences have been bittersweet. As long as there are staff members like Mrs. Page, Ms. Thomas and Mrs. Perez empowering young minds to stay above the hype and to not be easily influenced or discouraged - Showalter can and will be great. I understand views of my insights may be more than what is obligated but this is not a community or a school district like Bellevue. So for Showalter to expect the same results of a Bellevue school district utilizing the same matrix for dissimilar communities and diversity - bothers me. There are more troubled kids in this community that need help and have a stronger influences on other kids which result to bullying and depression and there is a principal and a handful of teacher who are leading these kids knowingly or unknowingly to their distruction. My kids have been attending Tukwila School district since each were in Kindergarten. The Tukwila elementary principal is amazing and it’s been very hard to locate anything equivalent. The school structure is the same since my husband attended this school and kids are evolving and becoming more resourceful. Showalter mindset needs to grow and think for the kids and not against them - especially parents who are heavily involved.

My child is in 1st grade this year and I've spoken with many happy parents who have had children in all grades. The consensus has been very positive and I personally could not be happier with Tukwila Elementary. I am extremely impressed with the curriculum and the teaching style. TE does a lot with a little, having one of the most culturally diverse and challenging student populations in the nation. One in ten students are homeless in the district and those stats are worse for the elementary schools. Language barriers and cultural differences make it difficult to communicate with parents and impress the importance of being involved in their children’s homework and many of these parents have trouble understanding the homework themselves because of their difficulty with the language. This makes teaching at TE very challenging but they do an admirable job in spite of the difficulties..