SW Hampton St
Topeka, KS 66612

My child attended this school from kindergarten to part of second grade, during my child’s second grade year, I decided to pull him from this school. Each year was worse and worse to the point that I decided to pull my child from Williams. The current principal, Kari Ritter, is not an effective principal and her attitude does not reflect that of a leader. We had a meeting with Kari and other staff due to my concerns about my child while at this school, during the meeting, Kari was snobby, rude, and demeaning. My concerns were not addressed at the meeting and the meeting actually made my child’s school experience worse. Parents, please look at the test scores at Williams, that alone is reason enough to not enroll your child at this school. I encourage parents to find an elementary school that truly cares about academics in addition to your child’s safety and learning environment….My child now attends a different elementary school where he is flourishing academically and he really loves school now.

I've had 3 children of mine attend this school. All 3 were bullied or mistreated by staff at the school. If you complain about the staff or their wrongdoings to the principle, she does nothing. Examples: 1. Facts teacher was allowed to call my daughter "loser" every day for a year straight and he was also taking bets on student fights with the students. 2. Their dean of students called my son a waste of time and laughed at him while suspending them. 3. When asked to view the footage of your child "misbehaving" the principle refuses. 4. They have served my daughter expired milk multiple times. 5. They with hold information from parents. 6. When my daughter asked to call me because she was sick the school refused to let her call HER OWN MOTHER and instead told her to suck it up and sent her back to class (she went to the restroom and called me from her cell phone immediately). 7. When I asked for verification on why my daughter was being mistreated by staff the vice principle simply said "I don't have an answer for that". These are the people we are trusting to watch our children for 7+ hours a day.

School is bad, the food is trash, very unhealthy, impossible to eat, I and my friend have gotten diarrhea after eating there, I don't like this school, people don't like me, although I'm always trying to be positive to everyone and everything, half of my teachers don't even know what they teaching, a stupid and awful system of education. The worst and most disgusting situation is that the school now has cockroaches. Haha, I don't even know what to think about it all, that's awful. Probably now because of the last situation, I have no choice, but to change my school.