27 Smith Rd
Byron, GA 31008

My son was a student here, and now my daughter is. My daughter had issues in elementary school with a teacher who isolated her and her friend group by stating religious-based comments in the classroom, encouraging students in the classroom to bully my daughter and her friends. I went to administration and they did nothing. Here at Thomson, my daughter feels welcome and encouraged. Ms. Dawson is her favorite teacher and she enjoys band, chorus, and drama. Hopefully Thomson keeps their great teachers around for as long as possible!

Many of the teachers, I would consider a "hit or miss". Some were really great, but some were genuinely awful, and didn't teach. The school doesn't really provide a welcoming environment from students of all backgrounds, and school administration would punish good students for the several bad students that they had. Many of the students were very ignorant, and I'm not sure if this stims from a lack of school resources or environments they grew up in. When I was attending this school, I genuinely hated every moment of it, and was head over heels when I left. If I'm being completely honest, I was embarrassed to say I went to this highschool because it didn't prepare me for University. I'm fortunate that I took my own initiative, to be where I am today (almost graduated with my bachelor's in a STEM subject). Overall, this school focuses way too much of it's funding, resources, and free-time into sports and meaningless activities, and not into programs that are actually going to set students up to succeed in life (academics, discipline based clubs, mental health resources, ect.) The amount of wreckless decisions that are made by administration and the board of education is pitiful, and I feel sorry for any student who was forced to attend this school. If you want your student to have a quality education, you're better off sending them to a private school.

With regards to learning, during the parent teachers conference, the facility expected less than 25% of teachers to show up by combining 4 classes and then being overwhelmed if more parents showed up. Literally, the facilities expectation was failure by their own definition. When another student in my sons class kept talking about suicide to my son the school has done nothing to stop it and not my son keeps talking about not wanting to be alive anymore. Even after pushing the facility, they said it has been escalated but they cannot talk about it, despite it still being an issue for my child. NsE School does not use ABCDF for grading, instead they use some other made-up system that the teacher can't even explain. Overall, it's clear this school is run by incompetent individuals who are just trying to get a paycheck rather then educate the future for tomorrow. I would highly recommend you see alternate education for your child/children.