FIR St
Saint augustine, FL 32092

If I could give this school zero I would. The special education “pull out” system that the sped director Jessica is running is a joke. Her exact words to me were ‘these kids aren’t going to amount to much. I guarantee all of them are going to end up in an assisted living’ THIS IS COMING FROM A SPED TEACHER!!!! she has zero care for the children and didn’t push them to amount to anything. She had zero expectations of them and was clearly just letting her paras babysit them. Kids with disabilities are kept AWAY from their peers with no integration but twice a day and only in special classes. The entire sped program including BOCES is a joke. They don’t care about the child and as Jessica stated they clearly believe ‘they’ll amount to nothing’Discussed and appalled they would keep someone like that around. And yes this was reported to BOCES AND THE STRASBURG SCHOOL.

The school administration and school district is NOT prepared nor in the appropriate mindset for the population growth that has been happening over the last 5 years. They got a new superintendent this year that is really good with talking the talk, unfortunately it only allows further masking and denial of the issues with misappropriation of funding, bias for “keeping that small town feel” aka denial of the need to change and more appropriately provide for students. The elementary just went through a decent remodel, but the middle school and high school are extremely lacking in the ability to even house students let alone provide appropriate provisions. The middle school only has two hallways that they cram students in, 6th graders are exposed to behaviors and environments that are premature for their age which throws them into their own social emotional disruption and distraction. There is terrible bullying, mental and social health problems, and the school administration blameshifts and gaslights parents and students that try to get help. They are extremely judge mental and do not activate IEP or 504 processes or provisions unless students are very obviously disabled and low functioning, their go-to reason for not following 504’s as well as denying IEP protections is that a student must be failing at least 3 core classes. Parents who are active in their students lives and academic experience are talked trash on, haphazardly placated, dismissed, and even with an ARC advocate the schools do not consistently and completely follow 504’s and IEPs. Even with doctor diagnosis, doctor’s letters, and release of information forms for them to communicate with outside providers. They pay millions each year to the eastern plains chapter of BOCES but the bias controls the outcome. The schools play dumb because they outsource special needs provisions but actually control and manipulate processes so they appear as if they are in compliance. The high school only has two elective classes and NO CAFETERIA so the kids go to a local gas station or the dollar general and aren’t interested in their campus. The middle school is atrocious and a terrible environment. These kids are NOT getting what students their age need to support a healthy and productive transition to their teens. Shame on you Strasburg!

If I could give a zero I would. Love the small town, but the schools are a joke. Wish I would of found this sight before moving here. My kids come home everyday saying they have no homework and most of their classes they had free time and played on their phones. Why are phones allowed in the classroom to begin with. They say the teacher give them a work sheet that has 5 problems on it and then don’t grade it. No instruction, no learning, just passing the time to pump kids through. We have not especially been welcome in the town as outsiders and it shows that the mentality to push our childrens education is not wanted in this district. They know that half the kids won’t graduate so they let them slide with skipping class, the teachers have to backbone because the administration does absolutely nothing because they are afraid of the parents likely. This district needs some serious admins to step in and turn it around or this town and schools will be forever doomed. Don’t enroll your children here. You will regret it.