Macarthur Middle School

Hi All,I want to put this review here as I would like to inform the viewers of this website, of my experience with MacArthur Middle School. I have a disabled child who is assigned to the school and has not been provided a special bus as of today. I was circling from one person to another till today and literally found that the assigned bus is going to pick up and drop off my disabled daughter four blocks away starting tomorrow. This is because the responsible person thinks that a paved street of 30 feet width ending in a cul-de-sac of 40 feet radius is not appropriate for the bus and tells me that there are no protocols for changing this pick-up/drop-off address. Lessons learned: Never buy a house on a cul-de-sac if you have a disabled child, especially in a modern community like "Seven Oaks" built in the late 90s. I think I shall also go the other way and try to ask the developers of the community to fix this issue because their architects did not consider the ADA requirements in their designs. I think the better would be to recommend not to move to Anne Arundel County at all!Thanks for reading and please pray for us so we get the best solution to the problem.Best Regards,

I have to say, after reading all the reviews from years ago, it is clear to me that the school has changed, but not as much as some say. There are a lot more teachers who care, but at the time I am writing this, there are 25-ish open positions. Even though the current principal is trying to improve the school, the kids don’t care. The county still sees this school as less than. The IB program is a joke. Do STEM instead. I, a white female have not faced bullying or have been involved in a fight, but know kids that have fought or bullied. It’s slowly getting better.

its great but needs to improve more

My child is being bullied. The teachers do not care that he is called names and books slapped out of hand. I called to talk to someone, they pushed me off saying the person I needed to speak to was on the phone. They never called back. My child gets to go to a school on a military base with staff that do not enforce appropriate school conduct.

My child did well, we met some incredible teachers, but we are so glad to be saying goodbye to this school. It exhausted us.