Long Middle Community Ed. Center

Both of my daughters have been attending Buder for two years now. The teachers are warm and genuinely caring towards their students. They are also quick to communicate updates, cute stories, accomplishments and any issues. My oldest daughter has ADHD and anxiety and all of her educators have advocated for her and helped her receive the services she needs. I am also pleased with how involved the other parents are. There’s a real sense of community.

This is a good school. I believe in time with the teachers and principle that they have this school has tremendous potential to rise above. They have already shown some improvement over the past years and I believe attendance also plays a major role as well. The more days children attend school the better.

I agree with the previous poster. This school does not have a steady leadership in place. . Last school year, the year was started with one principal that was eventually replaced with a different one around the middle of the school year. There are too many changes in principals here, and maybe some teachers too. Plus, the teachers are so overwhelmed with paperwork and bad kids in the room, they have no time for personalized anything with your child. They are too busy putting out fires, and trying to calm the storm. Ive seen some very disrespectful kids, talking back to the teachers and displaying thuglike behavior and bullying other children, and there is nothing done. Kids are roaming and running the halls. My child has said that some of them slam doors, throw things, and then walk out of class. IN AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. This is a shame. The teachers hands are tied. Some bright spots however, are the preschool classes, and the kindergarden classes. If you send your child here, I probably would not send them past kindergarden ( or even preschool since it is free). If you can afford it, I would definitely move and put them in a better school after they attend free preschool and maybe the kindergarden The teachers are doing the best that they can, but they simply cannot keep up with all of the paperwork they have to do and the large numbers of bad problem kids with no hometraining that they have to deal with in their class every day. Mines will be leaving this school when I move in a couple of months, and we can't wait.

Kennard has served us well. Any complaint would be the lack of understanding regarding student behavior. Kids are impulsive. Writing up a student 25+ times in a school year clearly does nothing to correct behavior. A little compassion would have gone a long way.

Terrible! We are moving out of the district. Clearly the schools in “ low income” neighborhoods have been forgotten about.