251 Simpson Ave #324
Lexington, KY 40504

When Lafayette takes the time to mail me a $60 fee for culinary and my daughter is failing the class without any contact email, phone call, or mail like the fee request. I am totally blown away with the priorities of this school. It's extremely important to get those fees but as far as failing students not important right?

In the summers of 2022 and 2023 Morton Middle School in Lexington, Kentucky lost more than 30 teachers who resigned, retired, or transferred to other schools. School leadership is, sadly, non-existent, and many teachers left because they were unhappy with the confusing demands placed on them by a rather disorganized principal or because principal directives were inconsistent or constantly changing. In 2023 most of the custodians also resigned. The students at Morton are fine, but without consequences, behavior has became a problem. It became clear that discipline became a major stumbling block. Some faculty members would say the behavior is out of control. Deadlines for students to submit work were taken away in 2022, and this caused many vulnerable students to stop doing any work outside of school. Failures increased. As of 2023, there is no full-time librarian so checking out books has become a chore. A Spanish position was cut this year resulting in bigger foreign language classes. Previously, Morton put most students in foreign language classes which seemed to signal a high expectation for students to participate in a global society. Also, several students have left Morton for private schools due to the new chaotic atmosphere at school, lower standards, and lack of deadlines for submitting written work. The active and pro– teacherPTSA is currently headed by a realtor who clearly knows staff is unhappy, but seems to accept the new changes. Finally, there have been incidents of retaliation taken against faculty members who speak up about working conditions at Morton. The school especially needs to recruit more Latino teachers so that Latino students have positive role models. When teachers are unhappy at any school, students suffer. This is the current situation. Interestingly, at Beaumont Middle and Hayes Middle, students are more likely to deal with a well-run school, higher expectations, and happier teachers. For this reason, I no longer recommend Morton Middle School.

I went to this school growing up it was a great school back then ,now the teachers do not care about anything but a paycheck . My son has several disabilitys and has got in trouble everyday beasue of them there has been times he has not been allowed to go outside to play beacuse of getting in trouble . He has been told no he cant go to the restroom during reading time and they know he has a bladder issue . This is the worst school every I would never reccomend this school for anyone to put there kids in. He ran out the back door a few times and the teachers freaked out which made the situation worst and they screamed at him and with his disabilitys it also made it worst .