Kingston Middle School

My daughter had a field trip, and we came at exact 8:30 that’s the time they asked for her to be there, when we arrived at 8:30 the bus was already leaving!!!! I honked at the bus to stop but they didn’t care! The teacher didn’t care to make sure everyone was on board! This is so stressful and no one can do anything but to apologize now I’m stuck at home with my daughter crying so much because she loves writing and enjoyed the young writers conference! This is so disappointing from all of them smh.

Our child’s experience during the 2021-2022 school year at Richard Gordon Elementary in Kingston, WA was very subpar. The faculty's lack of communication was astoundingly disheartening.Our child was physically assaulted by another student - without any provocation which can be seen on footage (not that anything would warrant this behavior). Not a single staff member called to tell us what had happened that morning and sadly, we had to find out from our child once we had arrived home at the very end of the day. The official resolution to this day is really unknown to us because due to "privacy laws" bus transportation could not disclose to us whether there were any repercussions for the other student nor if there was any education provided to the students in general in order to prevent such an incident from occurring again. We were told, rather inadequately, that "it's being handled." Completely unacceptable especially considering the fact that we are still in a pandemic. Additionally, one of the teachers approach to providing no homework was baffling - it would have been beneficial to know why and perhaps they could have directed us to some studies that might back up such an approach. At our previous school, there was assigned homework in first and second grade. We came from a really nice, kind and well oiled school and school district prior to Richard Gordon Elementary and had some hope that this school would be of the same caliber. We were sorely surprised and felt no real connection to the educators nor the school community.On some days, our child dreaded going to school but overall, with much encouragement and support, we pulled through and did our best to finish the school year strong. Any parent who really cares about their child’s education, emotional and physical well being need to really consider another school. In all, we feel that the minimum performance was given to our child.