Graebner Elementary School

Worst school i have ever had my child at. My child is mixed and is the only mixed person in her class and she is in first grade and her teacher singles her out. Despite going to the principal about situations she’s is extremely dismissive!

The principal is to worried about everyone liking him. I have watched bullying happen with no consequences. I have asked personally for certain things to be done to prevent further bullying, was told yes (keeping my child from going to recess), only for him to keep his word for a week and them to go back to being bullied at recess. When asked about certain services, he has no idea what was going on. The teachers take weeks to reply to issues, concerns, they are more worried about posting on social media to gain “likes” DURING SCHOOL HOURS (if they even decide to reply)! If I was that principal I would be absolutely EMBARRASSED by majority of the teachers that “work” there!

This school is like goldilocks not too bad not too good, but the kids hate it

We’ve had a wonderful experience with Plumbrook Elementary this year! We moved from another school district and into UCS at the beginning of this year, and this year in UCS has been great, and we’re so glad to be apart of UCS! The new principal who also joined this year is absolutely wonderful and our daughter lover her. The new superintendent has done so much for UCS and is wonderful as well! Our 5th grader has never been so engaged and excited for school before. Her teacher Mrs. Pacifico is by far our favorite teacher our daughter has ever had. She is wonderful with communicating and keeping us informed and was very attentive to our daughter’s needs especially with being at a completely new school and district! The school did an amazing job helping our daughter reach her academic goals as well as all the goals for speech therapy. If there was ever a problem or something that needed to be addressed and worked on, we were also informed of that too. We loved how seriously safety and bullying was taken too. Any unkind words or problems between students were immediately addressed as soon as an adult was notified of a problem. It feels comforting that this school actually does things to solve and prevent any further problems or bullying between students. There were many opportunities for families and parents to be involved and participate in school events and outside school events for the kids to have fun and for the parents to meet one another too!

I'm an old student of browning, that school is full of bullies, they are disrespectful in so many ways, and the current principal takes all the boys' sides. the teachers are amazing, and I have good memories of the school, but most of my memories there are horrible, if I had a choice to go back to that school id save myself the trauma and hate I received, I don't advice you go there, and when I grow up if I have kids, I don't plan to continue the tradition of them going to Browning. I'll send them to a better school, and over all I don't believe browning deserves to be one of the top three schools in Michigan. the education system is whack.

This experience at this school has been nothing but frustrating yr after yr. My kid has been bullied since kindergarten, 4yrs later it's still happening. I've told the principal and teachers but they refuse to contact the parents of the bullies. There have been other issues as well. I would NEVER recommend this school to anyone.