Birch Kirksey Middle School

Okay so I was a student at this school, I’m now in 7th grade but at the time I was in 5th. I want to give my opinion considering this school was one of the WORST schools I’ve been to. And I’ve traveled to lots of schools.Okay so I was assigned to the teacher Frankie Jackson. She was ruthless to 5th graders, and made them scared to even answer her in class.She was to strict and didn’t even feel like a teacher, she felt like a boss but a rude one. She was never your friend and she told us that. She was rude to kids that (to my assumption) had ADHD undiagnosed. She never tried to help them really, and if she did know they were diagnosed(which idk if she did) she still didn’t treat them well. It seemed she didn’t understand that they needed a little more help than the other kids.She would snap at the smallest of mistakes and would call students mistakes out in front of the class. She has I think made students cry before to. She once made a boy( who I’m pretty sure had ADHD) go without a chair because he was talking. Which she could have resolved without that type of treatment. She made me want to not go to school in fear of her. I was so horrified of her that I basically went mute in the classroom when she was around. She scared kids so much that they wouldn’t even answer her in class because of fear. She. Instantly told us we were the worst class, that we were terrible. Which I will admit we could be loud, BUT that was because we felt free when she was out of the room. She never treated us like kids, she treated us like adults. I feel like she failed at realizing that we were young and didn’t know everything. We were bound to make mistakes. She put on a whole different version of herself in front of parents. Which is horrifying as well.If you don’t believe me or don’t like me talking about her like this that’s fine. I can’t force you to believe me or like the way I talk about her. But if you were in her class in fifth grade in 2020( I think that’s the right year) and had bad experiences please speak out. Because I know how you feel and I want you to let others know. She was the reason I’m scared to go back to school. And why my anxiety is through the roof now. We were so heavily yelled a lot. And even though it was almost two years ago, this experience still horrifies me. Its probably why yelling scares me. I believe there is more, but I can’t remember much. I would put more but ran out of characters.

My son attended Jones Elementary. It works hard to meet academic needs of all students.

I attended this elementary school from 2014-2019 and I must say it was one of the worst experiences of my entire childhood. I was bullied every single year i attended this school, with nothing done to help. instead of helping me, my bullies were rewarded for treating me how they did. It got to the point where even teachers started to bully me as well, and it got to a point of me versus everybody else. There was absolutely nothing that could’ve been done. on top of that; after not caring about my bullying, they decided to bring in a counselor to start an “art class“ (which you would think would be normal) except for the fact that they were fishing to try to get kids taken away from their parents, Which also happened to me. I’m not saying that this has happened to everybody, but what I am saying is that that is one of the worst experiences I’ve ever had in a school district.

This is a good school. Even though it can improve its programs for talented kids.Teachers are responsible and respectful with kids.