Diane Winborn Elementary School

My son loved school and learning before West Memorial. In his 3rd grade he was bullied incessantly by the students and we were in the school every couple weeks having meetings that accomplished nothing. In his first semester of 4th grade he was bullied by his teacher so bad that the school switched him out of her class for the second semester. In his second teachers class at the Valentine's party they threw for his class he was given a valentine that said "watch your back." The school continued to do nothing. I left the state and now they are harassing me about his attendance when I told them last year we were leaving because they were the worst school I've ever sent my son to. My son is 4 days into his new school in Missouri and is living school and being accepted again. This school is horrible. The teachers that do care (Coach Blegan, Ms Muller) were helpless due to the rest of the school's apathy. Keep your children out of here at all costs.

My kids absolutely loved this school. The teachers and staff were amazing they truly cared about every student. Everyone was kind, supportive and welcoming. I couldn’t be happier with the experience my children had here.

TERRIBLE SCHOOL! The staff at this school is the worst that I have seen at any school!!!! If you can help it please do not send your students here. I read reviews about how horrible this school is but we moved in the neighborhood so I decided to still take a chance and I wish I would have listened to the reviews! They truly do have horrible human beings employed at Franz Elementary.

My son has came here crying to me because some kids said he pooped in the bus. This school has very poor discipline and bad teaching. My kid keeps getting annoyed by this corny kid and tells the teacher and they do a little bit of something. He got his points removed because of a lie a girl made! Even someone with disability got mistreated by the teacher. Not only this, but my kid has been hit a lot of times, and the school stops him from defending himself. I don’t get how the system even works! I’ve sent multiple emails to the school about my son telling me “someone hit me” or “someone punched me and I punched them back and they stopped me from defending myself” and the school doesn’t do anything!!! ANYTHING! This school is like: “ Lalalalalala!!!” LIKE THEY DONT EVEN CARE!? I can’t believe it this is the worst school I’ve had to assign my son. Quick recap of what I said: the school has bad discipline, poor service and lack of responsibility. At one point every single principal should retire and “go think about their actions”.

This school is an absolute nightmare! They are negligent, have high staff turn over, and extremely unorganized.

I worked at this school and saw ALL the behind scenes. Trust me when I say… DO NOT GO TO THIS SCHOOL. They are money driven and not genuine. They have very unsafe conditions that put students in unsafe environment. They care more about their image than what is best for the students. Principal Berry doesn’t not care about staff and most importantly the students.