96 Frost Hill Avenue
Lisbon, ME 04252

This school is horrible vaping is all over the place, the principal is terrible, the athletic director is a people pleaser and guidance should not have jobs with how bad they are. The only bright spot about this sorry excuse for a school is that the teachers genuinely care about what they are teaching but the curriculum is so bad that me and my classmates are not learning much of anything.

As a parent of a child with a diagnosed disability, I am extremely disappointed in how the Lisbon School Department has handled our recent experience. Despite informing staff of my son’s medical condition, he was publicly humiliated, misunderstood, and treated in a way that lacked compassion and accountability. Attempts to raise concerns were dismissed or redirected, and the district failed to take responsibility or offer a genuine resolution. Communication is poor, and there is a clear lack of understanding around disability accommodations and students’ rights.No family should have to fight this hard for basic respect, awareness, and support. I hope meaningful changes are made, because right now, the system is failing the very students it claims to protect.

I have two children who are attending LCS and every bit of their education is an uphill battle. One of my children is significantly ahead of their classmates in terms of academics and is forced to stay in their grade bored with the material because they are learning nothing new. The school is unable to establish any type of “gifted and talented” program due to a lack of staffing due to being one of the lowest paid schools in the area during a time of a national teacher shortage. Some of the teachers choose to teach controversial adult content to students starting in 4th grade rather than anything related to the subjects they were hired to teach. The school and district administration doesn’t address parental concerns regarding the material being taught. Regarding social/emotional support like the above rather than support students development in a positive way, teachers confuse the students with personal subjects they are not trained to teach, informing students they can choose to be “furries”. Special Education: my other child is in special education, by that I mean that they have an IEP, which is where the special education program stops for LCS. The school lacks the special education staff to adequately support the special education needs of its students and the case managers will refuse to include needed supports in an IEP if the school does not have the staffing to support them leaving our most vulnerable students to fend for themselves, in violation of fair education laws.Safety: due to a lack of staffing, violent special education students are placed in traditional classrooms, these students are free to destroy their classmates property, the school property and harm others with no compensation or corrective measures in place and the teachers are expected to handle these students alone.Family engagement is really hit or miss with the teachers, some teachers are fabulous, others seem antisocial and very rarely communicate with parents unless it cannot be avoided. I was very much opposed to school choice before I encountered this school system, now I wish more then anything I could get my children out of here.