Walter V Long Elementary School

Not awful, sports are pretty great,and it's above average in total.

The assistant principal at this elementary school is consistently rude and unprofessional. Her lack of basic people skills makes it extremely uncomfortable to interact with her, especially when it comes to dropping off or picking up your child. A school environment should feel welcoming and supportive, yet her demeanor creates the opposite experience. In my opinion, she is truly unfit for a leadership role that requires strong communication and empathy.

My son is in the 4th grade and since he's been in school he has always had a good relationship with all of his teachers and the whole staff and he always was enthusiastic about going to school but we moved to the side of town last year and the principal is great she's super nice but some of the teachers at my son has interacted with I feel like they don't need to be teachers or work with kids because they are very rude and they talk poorly to the kids and it's not good for their mental stability I know that my son has spoken about not being there next year and honestly I'm really considering switching him to another school

I am furious to find out that the son of a family member of mine, is struggling in 5th grade at this school as it is, and his teacher is giving out way too much homework. To my, understanding, homework is supposed to be limited to those who struggle. This child has had learning issues throughout the years. There are good subjects this child can do, but his workload gets tripled in the other subjects. He cannot sit through past 10 minutes of this work and the school, just told his parent they are expected to work 30 minutes on homework. In my opinion that is too long. They do enough work IN class as it is. He is not supposed to be bombarded with schoolwork every, single day like this. The teacher apparent assumed, his parents don't care and thought they had an issue with him doing homework at all. They always encourage him to do it, not the other way around like this teacher assumed.In my opinion, they should have kept homeschooling free, so he wouldn't have to stress. So much for free education.

Child Endangerment plus Lost Wages for Parent3.14.17- The school teacher allowed for my child to be picked up by another parent whom had never picked up my child before nor did this parent have my permission. The parent is not even listed on my child's pick up paperwork. When asked why she let my child go with the parent he response was "she picks up a lot of kids and I didn't think about it", but she have never picked up my child. And had the parent not called me I wouldn't have known what was going on.3.9.17- Without proper notification my son's classroom was changed to a new room and teacher (he was absent due to being sick) and when he didn't know what was going on and was told to go back to his classroom. He was reprimanded for going into the wrong class (in which he didn't know what was going on)2.14.17- a note was sent to the teacher telling her that my so was to go to Daycare after school, but instead she choose to keep him after school for tutoring. My daycare center only makes one pick up after school. I then get a call from the school at 5:10pm while I'm at work tell me that I have 15 minutes to pick my son up from school or they are going to call Metro Police on me. But I was like he was supposed to be at Daycare I specifically sent a note to the teacher. I then had to leave work, lose 4 hours of wages, risk everything to get to my son before the police were call ed on me for this teachers mistake.

I've have nothing but positive things to say about Don and Dee Synder Elementary