323 Sabot Ln
Matthews, NC 28105

This school has no consideration for the student or the family. It is 100% about the way the principal looks to the community. Students and parents are belittled. Students are punished and berated when they could be come along side and taught. Middle school is time for students to learn. Of course there should be consequences but the consequences at SCMS are not aligned to the behaviors and not designed to teach. Instead, the SCMS principal uses these opportunities to instead punish. She yells at, berates, and loses her temper in front of the students on a regular basis. Parents who have different beliefs and/or giving patterns are belittled. You are told you are not a good parent if you do not participate in what the principal wants you to…regardless of your why. The principal does not care about your why. If your goal is not to make the SCMS principal look good, this is not the school for you. This includes teacher and staff. The teachers and staff are continually turning over to the detriment of teacher health and student learning. Multiple teachers in ELA and math each year do not lead to success. In fact, an A student quickly becomes a C student and does not care. It leads to students deciding to not keeping trying because the bar and rules continuously change. The teachers and staff are not leaving due to burnout. They leave because of the principal.. The environment is toxic for students, teachers, and parents. It will not change until Lisa Bailes is no longer the Principal.

If your child does not fit the perfect, neurotypical mold don’t send them here. The EC staff is great, but the teachers we’ve had are consistently overly harsh. One teacher here is known to openly make fun of students in class without any reprimand. It’s not a warm, nurturing school for children especially for those with learning differences. Expect to constantly feel your child is a bother to them if they have to go out of their way at all to meet needs in the classroom. This school is about the numbers, for sure not about a love of learning.

I attented this school. From my experience, the teachers I had were not good. You go to class just to copy workbooks and figure out the answers yourself. The teachers did not teach. How can you learn like this?