Immanuel Lutheran

My daughter has been attending garner since she was 3 with an Iep and they have provided so much support for her growth and development. She is thriving! These reviews were prior to the transition of the school becoming a magnet school it seems.

This school is absolute garbage. My sister is enrolled in this school and the security, everything is awful. The school has gotten several bomb threats and the most they do will be checkups. My sister has been sexually assaulted many times by a classmate who has done the same to other girls. She has told her counselor and a few teachers but they have never said anything about it and have also just told her to "stay away" from him multiple times. The school is also insanely bad with bullying, especially those of the disabled kids. It is also a big problem for kids of other ethnicities and religions, beliefs and orientation. The teachers really do not care about doing their job either and I have also seen that they might use AI. Overall this is not a good school, and our family is thinking of filing a police report against said kid who sexually assaulted my sister and many other girls, and maybe even the school itself. Shame on the teachers for ever letting this happen, please never go to Auburn High School in Florida, it is seriously a bad place and no teacher takes any problem seriously.

Please keep your children far away from this school.

From a special needs mom perspective, I would not recommend this school for special needs children. The school is not supportive when it comes to the educational achievement or advancement of children who are special needs but hide functioning. It’s more like daycare for special needs children. They group all of the children together whether they are low functioning or high functioning and do not provide accommodations like speech therapy, etc. In addition, I feel so excluded from my child educational life due to the fact there is no family engagement or social fellowship.

There has been an extreme teacher turnover in the past 4 years. A particular end of year exam was not given, because the students did not learn what was required. One teacher told my child not to have their parents email her because she would not respond. My child also corrected her math teacher regarding math problems on two occasions. Elementary was good minus the teacher turnover, and my child having 4 teachers in one year/grade. So much has changed at this school. I would have given this school 5 stars back in 2019 and prior. This being said, I think there are some really good teachers there, but they also have some that are definitely not worth the tuition!

The school does not communicate properly with parents. There have been numerous problems with teachers and administration that go unaddressed. Transportation issues are not communicated. This school has caused my family nothing but hardships. I would not recommend this school to anyone.