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Richmond Hill, GA 31324

This school has been nothing but trouble since day 1. They dont have enough food to feed the kids that go there. Kids have 4 mins to eat lunch because of the bad design an time management throughout the day. If you have a problem they will ignore you an not do anything. They lie, but they make sure athletes are taken care of. Construction worker hanging outside girls locker room while they change clothes. Just dont put your kid in this school unless you want to hear everyday of some other issue they wont fix an then send emails mocking those who stand up for their kids

This is a comment on RH athletics. Richmond Hill did itslef a disservice in only building one middle school. The middle school student body is the largest - by far - south of Atlanta. The student is around 2,500. The other middle schools in the area average around 800 students. Because of this, RHMS dominates every middle school in all sports. This is a bad thing, however, as it leads to lazy coaching and what I call "golden boy" syndrome, where the kids think they are special because the middle school teams are so dominant. They are only dominant, though, becuase they are three times the size of every school they play. This manifests itself in a couple of ways at the HS level - 1. When our athletes get to HS, they are underdeveloped, but think they are great (again, lazy MS coaching and golden boy syndrome) and 2. Many of our best athletes go to the private schools in Savannah in search of better coaching. RHHS sports are awful. We are good at cheerleading, lacrosse and cross country - sports no one really cares about. We are terrible at baseball, basketball, and football, and our wrestling program is mediocre, at best. RH needs two middle schools. We will develop our athletes much better that way, and maybe hang on to more of them.

The only reason I rate this school with 2 stars is because when we moved to the area back in 2016 it really was an excellent school, offering quality education and healthy environment for the kids. We got lucky having that for our older child. Not so much now with the younger one. Since the old principal moved to RHHS, there is a drastic decline in education quality. Good teachers with experience are few and far in between. Bullying is ever present - from both teachers and other children. Kids are "punished" by methods that seem to be taken right out of Medieval Times. Running laps in the scorching heat, eating lunch in the hallways, endless repetition for the entire class if one kid is not paying attention, name it, it is probably done. We are talking about very young children here. How is this in any shape or form formative, educational or teaches anything to a 6 year old? We are talking about negligible infractions like asking to borrow a pencil from a classmate. Homework has been non-existent from first to third grade. Inadequate or complete lack of feedback. If you don't spend time with your child at home to teach them to read for example, you can forget they will learn in the classroom without attending additional classes. Teachers are hired right out of college, inexperienced, sharing personal inappropriate information with the kids on regular basis. Kids are yelled at and harshly disciplined by teachers who do not understand the concept of education and treat the classroom as a personal space instead of a place where they have the ultimate power to shape kids minds. The school is going from bad to worse and the principal doesn't seem to have a grasp on how to improve current conditions. If you can send you child to a private school, this may be a better choice.