Cheatham Elementary School

The teachers at Cheatham are amazing and caring individuals. They work very hard to meet the needs of every student. Assignments are relevant and allow students the opportunity to grow.

I absolutely love Cheatham Elementary~ the students, staff, and community! The students are kind, compassionate, and overall amazing . The staff is one of the best that I have had the privilege to work with! Every day I walk into our building and smile because of the amazing students and staff.

So I see a lot of parents commenting about the school in general. A lot of you are saying something changed in 2015, what was it? Aside from the way the other students act(can't really towards a grain of salt) thats going to be at EVERY SCHOOL. How was the administrative communication? Were you advised of negative and positive activity? If your children were struggling with the curriculum how soon was it addressed? Was there a plan set in place and how active were you(the parents) in it?

My son attended Cheatham since kinder. He is now in 3rd grade. At the time we chose the school it was great! Awesome teachers, great staff. It stayed that way up until this year. 2015 has been the worst school year my son has ever had. He was bullied for months, verbally and physically and no one said anything to us. He finally broke down and let us know this happened all year. I took the steps. Went to the teacher & principal. Set up meetings and was assured they would take care of it. 2 months later nothing changed. My son was still coming home crying. He received no support from the school. As a parent I received no support. No reassurance my son was safe. The kids causing it were never disciplined. There parents were never notified. My son was a gifted student for the past 2 years and his grades dropped drastically because of this and yet his teacher had the nerve to tell us she didn't know why he was struggling. At 8 years old my son begged me to change him schools and we did just that. When I let the principal know this is what it came to he simply said" oh man I'm sorry" and walked away. I will never send my son back to that school and I will never recommend it again. Cheatham cannot keep teachers more then a year. Not one of my sons previous teachers is still here. Sad to see how the school has fallen apart.

Last year (2014), we loved our experience, my daughter had Ms. Life for kindergarten -best experience! The principal was very hands on Mr. Stephens was very well known, communication lacked at times but was consistent for a majority of the school year. This year 2015 has been horrific. My daughter used to love school, but now is upset going, teachers don't seem to have their heart in the right place, other students to exhibit poor behavior with no correction from staff, pick up and drop off very unorganized. My daughter doesn't know who the principal is and many other parents exclaimed they haven't seen or met him either. Picked my daughter up early no questions to confirm who I was- no ID check. That is a red flag. My daughter will not be attending this school next year.