Cooper Elementary School

I work at Waller School during the school year as a custodian. I find the staff to be very kind and respectful. The principal is a very sweet lady. All of the janitors there are very helpful coworkers. We use all of the latest mopping technology there. Our HR and managers are very hard working and busy people. The teachers try their best there. The school has a homey feel to it. I've never met a mean staff member there. I work in the special education wing of the building and they do very well with their special education kids.

Small school size and high quality of teachers.

This school is horrible. There is no communication. My son has been left behind and I'm trying to find a different school for him. He received special education services since kindergarten but they really haven't been providing him with much of that here at all and there has been no IEP meetings since he's been here, and it's almost February. He used to go to Lyons School which was the most wonderful School ever. Super tight-knit, a small and just really great School. They would let me know about any little thing that was going on with him and I could be in direct contact with the teacher or anyone at the school at any time. They really cared about him and he was doing well. He has some emotional behavioral issues as well as ADHD. He got movement breaks. They had recess at the beginning of the day they had three recesses per day. He now has a teacher who gets frustrated with him constantly and obviously doesn't know how to deal with children with adhd. She exclaimed that "oh, you have it so hard", because he put his head down to try to think. To me that is borderline emotionally abusive. You talk to a child like that and then expect them not be disrespectful. He was normally a very sociable child and at this school you're not even allowed to talk to your friends in the hallway apparently or maybe it's just my child. I don't know. He now only has one friend and is doing horrible socially and I know it's all because he is not being emotionally and mentally and academically supported in this school. He's been in trouble many times this year and I've not heard one word from the teacher or the principal. He is extremely hyperactive and does not get movement breaks. They have one recess per day. Children don't get to start out the day going to recess and getting rid of some of their energy. He's expected to just sit there and fall in line. He is having a really hard time with spelling but doesn't get any extra help at all. He reads fine but really has a hard time with spelling and they're not supporting him at all through small groups or anything. They're totally non empathetic and uncompassionate. He is regularly singled out as a problem child instead of having any type of compassion or creativity or ability to engage in helping him. It is really doing his self-image harm and he has become much more frustrated in general and disrespectful. It is not a good learning or otherwise environment for children with disabilities or other emotional behavioral issues.

This school is horrible and needs some new leadership