242 E 17th St
Reserve, LA 70084

This is by far, the most horrible school I have ever encountered. The faculty and staff are not in communication with one another and never know what is going on, who to even refer me to when there is an issue. Do not count on them doing anything that they are actually required to do, such as fixing attendance when you bring in Doctors notes, etc. This school is practically a place to just go and buy drugs and do them. There are fights nearly everyday. Half of the teachers are uncertified, and just spend the day at their desk, while instructing the children to do their work online.The teachers do not care if your children do not do the work, as they are allowed to listen to music, play on their phones, and sleep in class. They will send your child home for wearing a hoodie in the middle of winter (while in the schools policy book it clearly states that they are allowed to wear any kind of jacket as long as it's not red or blue (because, I guess the students here also think they are in gangs!) My daughter was always an honor roll. To make matters even worse, I decided to remove her from this school and put her in another school in another city. It took the staff at ESJ ONE MONTH to get her transcripts sent over because they principal did not enter her grades into the system when the school board asked her to do so. Finally I had to make several in person visits to the school, demanding they send the transcript (all the while they tell me over the phone to not come in, that they will get it handled! Now my daughter has had to start and you semester a month behind and does not know any of the work at the new school! She is now in danger of failing ALL classes for this semester!

This school is the ideal school of favoritism. They pick and choose who to correct about uniforms. The school is more worried about uniforms and trying to look good. They forget that the grading average for this district is low. Really wish the kids had better choices for academic purposes. They should really strive to be more like Texas and put less focus on uniform. They should strive to have focus primarily on education. Rising the districts grading average or at least the schools grade average. Also the amount of bullying they allow and racism is beyond me. I’ve gone to the school board to try to find other options to home schooling because I would hate to completely disassociate my children from the school system. A man stated he would be going to the school to help with the bullying and racism. He states he would get back to me if he wasn’t successful at achieving that. My child came home yesterday and told me that her foreign oriental friend is moving back to the Philippines. I told her wow that’s sad. She said no it’s better for him because he won’t be bullied. It’s just sad that I’m this district the minorities like the Asian/ Chinese/ Hispanic/ biracial children aren’t protected. Their should be tactics and severe consequences for children being taught ignorance at home and bringing that into such a diverse community. Hate crimes such be taken very serious and hate speeches. Not only should the predominantly race be safe. All races should be safe in this school district. I grew up in this school system and just like I told the school board… nothing has really changed much. It’s really just gotten worse. They attempt to sweep under the rug the wrong doings of such things. I believe it will really take for someone to make a dramatic decision for the district to really be shaken up to make some drastic changes to the situation. Also kids have complained about food having mold or being undercooked. They’ve attempted to take pictures with their cell phones which I think they have the right to do and have been scolded/ belittled for doing so. I was called about my daughters uniform shirt. This is one of my less defiant daughters out of my four. 3 out of my 4 are advanced in any material handed to them. As I brought my daughter her uniform shirt I see other kids being checked in with ripped black uniform pants. They were not disciplined. So I’m closing the pick and choose who to discipline.

Horrible, absolutely horrible school. The kids are terrible and as they do have some great teachers, they can not do their job when these kids are only there cause its the law.