Lanier Middle School

No professionalism. They have no order or care

My child has moved to middle school and longs for the days at White Oak. Based on my experience the pros definitely outweigh the cons. The lead staff is excellent and actually give parents and students a platform to be heard. Mrs. Pickett (Principal) is very nurturing and goes out of her way to be attentive to children and speak to them as often as possible. Mrs. George (Vice Principal) gets things done. While she is very kind and the students love her, if a problem occurs such as bullying, she ends it very quickly. All of my child's teachers were excellent and held to very high standards by Mrs. Pickett and Mrs. George, this school has little visible nonsense. Other staff such as the custodial team are adored by the students and very friendly. The school offers many opportunities for volunteering along with endless social events for the kids/parents to attend if you would like to be involved. An officer was recently added to the team so that security needs are met if a problem should occur. With all of this being said "yes" I would recommend White Oak. My only complaint/warning would be the guidance counselor's ability to do her job. Based on my experience with her, in my opinion, her lack of maturity and eagerness to please her peers affects her ability to do what is best for the children. Hopefully this will be resolved in the near future.

The school is simply great. They have good progress in academic.

We moved to Forsyth because many people think they have a better schools than other countiesThis is our first year with this school and after two weeks in this school, many problems started. First, the school though our daughter was a mentally handicap so they decided to put her in several separate classroom with out letting us know about it. Many emails then meeting but they never explained how did they made that decision. Their facilitator was on and on about this obligation and that obligation, but never once said that she has had no obligated to take her job or leave her job.Then IEP, our daughter received a special need because SSD due to her birth. This speech language pathology was born and raised in Forsyth, just graduated with no experienced and has this job with her county. She was assigned to work with our daughter. She had never communicated with us regarding what so ever about our daughter. Turn out, her case manager and the facilitator have to handle the talk. (may be this pathology is too young to speak).Not only that, in the past 6 months, she teach our daughter about idioms only. We contacted her case manager and the case manger told us that what their team decided for our daughter to learn until the end of school year. Idioms is nice to learn, but that is not a academic or standard form. We can buy a idioms book or download it online for our daughter to practices why do we need a Pathology to teach.Maybe, this Pathology is inventing her own idioms that no one has ever known to teach kids. This school is running with a lot of negative people.Any one want to know about Forsyth County, just email us to find out the true before buy a very expensive house to live. You can rent a house for first year and try out their school before stuck in the situation like us (400k).FYI: a lots of farms and cows are here in Forsyth.

very good school would definitely recommend to others