123 E 4th Street
Pt Orchard, WA 98366

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.

My daughter went here for half of 4th grade and the entire year of 5th grade. She and I had a great experience with the teachers. They made her feel welcomed and they worked with my daughter to make sure she was up to par with her reading.

My son is a senior this year and has done amazing here. His attitude about school has become positive. He has favorite teachers in almost all his classes. They teacher have been so supportive. He loves all the choices they offer to make them ready for a career like automotive and welding. Computer classes and so much more. He has a great counselor who has helped him with situations outside of school All around a great school. Yes there are a lot of students but they have made this school great.