281 Peterson St
Sierra Vista, AZ 85635

The office is unable to effictively communicate with themselves, students, or parents/guardians. They are completely overwhelmed and unable to properly run a school. In addition to that, my child and I were FORCED by the principal, counselor, and teacher, to discuss his private MEDICAL situation while standing in front of other parents and students at the pick up gate, as they tried to dupe me into signing him up for in-school Behavioral Health in order to get a Special Ed evaluation. The principal didn't introduce herself to me so I had no idea who she was as she straight SCOFFED that he had anything else but a behavioral health problem, eventhough they've already been notified he is medically fragile with Toxic Encephalopathy, they have PROOF from his Toxicologist already in his file, and they have been told psych medication is severely contraindicated due to hypertoxicity in his brain and body. He already has a brain specialist working with a team overseeing his conditions but they think they know better after only five days of school. I asked the counselor if I could read over everything and call her the next day to discuss and ask questions, and she said yes. So I called her the next day, and immediately she was abrupt, condescending, and rude- adamant she only had 5 minutes for me. I asked her several times to make an appointment instead, and she rudly refused, unprofessionally insisting I ask all my very serious questions only within the five minutes she was giving me. I read the paper I was being bullied to sign. They wanted me to sign over mental health decision-making to their in-school behavioral health team leaving me with only the option of providing input on his behavioral plan and when I insisted she clarify if this was part of the MET process she got angry and defensive, but eventually admitted it was not. They have been told repeatedly that his prognosis is FULL RECOVERY and that psych meds are severely contraindicated due to hypertoxicity. The specialists we already have actually KNOW him and our situation over the span of 3+ years but the completely overwhelmed, arrogant, and reckless staff at Carmichael think they know everything. They treat parents like insubordinate children to be punished when they are challenged, even when confronted with verifiable facts. The principal and her staff gaslight parents instead of admitting and fixing their wrongs, and they are unethically medicating children to make their job easier.

This school is good over all, just rough around the edges.

Honestly the school itself is pretty nice but it's the teachers and the faculty that are just so disrespectful and really don't care if there teaching us I use to go here and there was always fights and teachers never helped me even when I asked for it, it got so bad my mom had to put me online because the teachers just DID NOT HELP and some of them flat out didn't like me and would give me a hard time in class I really don't recommend this school your honestly better off doing online or driving a couple minutes out of town to go to a better school.I will add as a side note though the theatre teachers are super helpful and honestly the best staff there <3.