Beaverton High School

My daughter is in Kindergarten and is being bullied and harassed by a boy in her class. I transferred to this school less than 2 months ago becuase she wanted to learn Spanish. In 2 months time she has been punched, shoved, had her hair pulled and now been CHOKED by this kid. I'm LIVID. I've met with the school principal and the teacher at the same time. I've had an hour long phone conversation with the principal. The school is absolutely enabling this kid and his bad behavior. At 5 pm today I received an email that my daughter was absent today. My daughter was in school today. This kid pulled her hair today. The principal loves to boast about the great job he's doing and how his "approach" is so successful. Not so successful when kids in your care are repeatedly getting hurt. Principal is just as responsible as the child at this point for neglecting to take action or remove the other child so he stops targeting my daughter. If you want your child to be bullied and punched, learning words like "f you", flipped off and CHOKED send your baby here. Removing my daughter from this school immediately due to safety concerns. They don't even know who's in attendance? Unreal.

We moved our daughter from a charter school to William Walker. The teachers there are great. They show their love for the kids. As 2nd graders, not only do they have math, English, PE, etc., and the school also provides Music, Technology, and Library. Kids get to borrow two books every week, it has been only a month, and my daughter started to like reading a lot. Previously my daughter always struggled with Math, but now she is enjoying doing math work. We are very surprised to see what a big change happened to her. Her classroom teacher is very nice and experienced. We are so impressed after the first teacher-parent conference with her. This is probably the biggest decision that as parents we made to move our daughter to William Walker. Our daughter now is a happy 2nd grader.

St. Stephens is a great school for our two kids. They are challenged to truly learn, and what they learn is significant. They are learning to think critically, independently, speak well, write well, and have a great sense of history. My 1st grader tells me all about kings and queens of England at the dinner table, and my fifth grader recites things in Latin. It's fun to see them grow. The community is very tightly knit and teachers know each student very well. Highly recommend this school. While the facilities are not elaborate, I find the quality of education far outweighs any downside there.

They are are not helpful if your child has a disability, developmental delay. They provide little to no support unless you keep pushing the issue. They seem to promote support with students with mental health and emotional well-being, but don’t be fooled, they don’t actually fix the issues if there is a bully who is creating these issues with other students.