Trace
Lithonia, GA 30058

I would say the staff in the office is terrible. I am in the middle of a custody battle and the lady in the front office told me straight to my face that "she was done dealing with my drama" which I found funny being that this was the second time all year we have had an issue. I had a custody agreement that said I get my child whe school lets out, yet the principal would not go by it. The principal told me that she didn't want to get involved. Im sorry but whu are you a principal if you don't want to get involved in your students lives? My child is clearly having behavior and health problems being with my husband and I have asked the teacher's to please put my child in counseling, being the abuse my son has seen. They have not replied back to me but have only said they don't want to get involved. I don't know how to take this. Growing up, I was told if something bad was happening to us a teacher would help. Clearly not here. I would NEVER let my child go to a school where the adults don't care about the well-being of the children there.

I must say this school system cares a lot about the future of these students. They challenge each student to be better and do better. They give the kids many opportunities to pull their grades up and offer multiple resources to correct these issues. The Career Academy has been a blessing to many students, especially my daughters. They both are in the health care programs and they are graduating a year earlier thanks to the dual enrollment program.

Where do I start. My family and I moved from out of state. My son was excited to attend a new school. Low and behold we were not expecting what has happened since the beginning of the school year. Needless to say, my experience with the teaching staff is not a pleasant one, I have emailed a few teachers not One teacher has communicated back or responded to my emails. How, Why is that. How are these teachers, teachers if they cannot properly communicate with parents. I just don't understand how some of these teachers (only saying that because I have only interacted with 7th grade teacher experience) have jobs teaching. My son would come home upset and tell me all kinds of stories, students antagonizing him, taking his stuff, he would exchange words for them to give it back, students hitting him, teachers overlooking it saying they don't care. Overall these teachers are very nasty, rude and disrespectful. Even one putting their hands on my son. I have been to the school at least 4 times since September and its just the end of October. There is one good thing I can say AP Johnson has been some help with dealing with some of the situations. At the end of the day, I do not send my son to school to have this kind of experience or be treated rudely or disrespectful. I could go on and on. But I would not recommend any parent to live in this County/attend any of the schools in this district, they have got to do better. End result, I've made the decision to just move in a way better county where both my kids get the support and education they desire. I am FED UP. I am super surprised the school is still in operation.