2012 Canvas
Marina, CA 93933

I am writing to express my deep frustration regarding the leadership of Leland Hansen. My concerns stem from reported incidents during his time at Washington Middle School, specifically an allegation involving the intentional physical mistreatment of a student with special needs and a subsequent retaliatory suspension. This behavior is entirely unacceptable for someone in a position of authority. I firmly believe that his history makes him unfit for any administrative role within the school system.

The school is very small. However, it has a very friendly and welcoming staff. The children all wear uniforms, which cuts down on the daily disagreements on what your child needs to wear. I wish the school had more programs. There is a large Mexican population and offers for English classes. I wish there were more offers for Spanish classes, as other schools have done. It's very small. Not many extras, but the staff and teachers are competent and friendly.

I wouldnt send my child here if it was the last school on earth. (my page reloaded after 2000 letters so I have to start over, worth it to me to get the message out about this awfully managed school). Starting with Van Sant, the vice principal. I skipped class once at the end of the school year, probably because I wasnt learning much anyways (not because I am not engaged in learning, but because classes move so slowly), he found me with my friends on the baseball field. Took us to the office, made micro aggressions assuming that I was a bad student all the time, and probably didnt learn anything. Mind you I have a 4.2 GPA and am double majoring in history and political science in the fall, some students at this school can’t write a simple sentence. Back to the skipping class story, a few days later, a teacher tells me that another teacher told them that van sant told them I was skipping class with a boy kissing and he caught us. That is a completely untrue and fabricated story. I have pictures of me and my friends running around on the field, no boys in sight. I don’t understand why the vice principal is gossiping about students, especially if what he’s saying is untrue. Next the education, the teachers are good, I didn’t have one teacher I didn’t like or who was bad at teaching. I would say classes move very slowly and there is no workload at all, I never had any work to take home. My entire sophomore year I didn’t get one essay assignment. If you want your student to learn to write coherently, do not send them here. My educated assumption is that teachers know the students will not write more than a decent paragraph, most writing assignments were 3-5 sentences. They dont want to write 3 sentences, but they will. This leaves no room for students to improve. INORITA AGUILAR, the school secretary. Not professional at all. As the person who picks up the phone when calling the school, and the first face you see when you walk into the office you would think she’d be nice or have some type of customer service skill but you’d unfortunately be wrong. Interacting with her is dreadful, since she’s so skilled at cutting you off, and when you call, she might get into a full conversation with someone else without telling you or putting you on hold. I have no idea where they got her from but she needs to go. Not enough room to write about the powertripping hall monitors. Once had detention for being late to class and got reamed for no reason. Awful administration.