Harrison Elementary School

This is hands down the worst school I have ever experienced in my nearly 20-year career as an educator. It looks pretty on the outside - nice new building and all. But inside, it is a nightmare. Students are fighting in the halls on the way to class in the morning, fighting in the bathrooms, fighting on the playground. Students bring weapons to school. The lower grade hallways reek of urine because the students just go wherever they want to go - in the hallways, on the walls, etc. The custodial department is severely understaffed. We routinely did not have toilet paper, soap, or paper towels. I had to buy toilet paper and bring it in for myself and the students to use. Teachers are expected to sweep their own classrooms each day. Classrooms are not deep cleaned over the summer months. That falls to the teachers as well. The teachers are horribly stressed, abused, and unsupported by admin. Administration hides in their offices, seemingly aware that the problem has grown too big for them to tackle, so they just hide. I would caution anyone who cares about the safety of their child avoid this school. Safety and hygiene are severely lacking here…let alone education. Harrison Elementary is a very sad excuse for a school.

We had a lot of problems with bullying in Kindergarten and it’s gotten worse now in 1st grade to the point that our happy, creative kid has become depressed and nervous. The classes are practically at a 30:1 ratio, the kids are out of control, and god forbid your kid gets upset about being tortured daily, because then it’s their fault for not ignoring the bullies. My kid has been nothing but gaslit, victim blamed, and shamed by students and teachers and we’re trying our best to get him out. The worst thing Hamilton County did was combine 3 elementary schools into the overcrowded, ridiculous mess. It seems like every-time we have to interact with the office there are parents yanking their kids out of the school due to bullying and violence. They’ve set up teachers and students for failure.

They lost my kindergarten grandson when we went to pick him up the first day. We were second to the last car rider after waiting 45 minutes Just to be told they can't find him. After hearing about another small child mistakenly being put on a bus and the parent was frantic, I feared the worst! Finally they found him. So, the car pick up is an absolute nightmare!

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This school has completely changed since it was merged with 2 other schools in a new building. What used to be a very wholesome, safe and tight-knit community is now a free-for-all. Guns, pepper spray incidents and violence are the new normal at Harrison Elementary which is only a K-5th grade school. Add to that, assistant principles who stand in the way of constructive input and progress and you have a recipe for disaster. The new principle doesn't have the support she needs and the teachers are doing they're very best with the circumstances they've been thrown into but several off them are jumping off this sinking ship and will not be there next year. Brown Middle School doesn't appear to do much better. We are zoned for Brown but we will do whatever we have to do to get our 6th grader to a better school.