Elm Dale Elementary School

While I'm not typically a fan of MPS, Cooper is an exceptional school with a dedicated staff that truly cares about its students. My daughter has had three incredible teachers during her time there, each contributing to her academic progress and personal growth. Of all the schools she's attended, Cooper has best met her needs and has consistently worked with me to support her academic development.

This school has a lot of double standards for different students.

The principle and teachers allow students to be bullied there is nothing in place to keep your child safe, they do not call parents they lie to the police we send there isn't one protecting your child! Students have dropped out of this school because of it, they cover their teachers that put hands on the students, I do not recommend this school at all!

A teacher threw my sisters notebook at the walk because she was drawing in class. My sister, a generally well behaved child, saw a kid on freetime during ELA, decides to draw and then had a teacher take her notebook and throw it AGENST A WALL. I understand how some of these students can be but that is way to extreme and aggressive. Multiple students saw this and can testify. Also, he (in mh opinion) bullied my friend. They are autistic and had meny triggers, which they communicated to him. He then goes out of his way to tease them using those triggers, I also remember him calling them stupid. They are homeschooled now because of him and bullies. Over all, bad experience with him. There are other amazing teachers here, though.But the support here for regular teachers isn't that great. The social worker is amazing but if you have mental disorders but aren't in the Special Education class, you dont get accommodations you need. Not even with official diagnosis. I barely learnt anything in my 6th abd 7th grade of school because of some of these teachers. I couldn't focus in class and didn't have anything to help me. I felt miserable here when I was a student. I hope everyone working there the best but goodness some of them were horrible.

Honestly the human rights are unfathomably the worst in the district. I got yelled at just for being in line. I was removed from the library for "keeping me away from a group that has negative influences". I see the picture, but honestly that was just a bit too far. In my first year I missed a lot of classes to go to the SPED room because I was considered "inconveniently sped and mentally r*******" This likely caused me to go to the asylum twice, that was in 7th grade. That year. I was the only person to be in before/after school care, other than people in a far younger age group (rarely other middle schoolers come). Eighth grade came, and it's ironic I got criticised for dancing like Michael Jackson because of the 1st Amendment. I would get yelled at just for saying that I hate this school. I was forced to do ALEKs and ST Math without help because it was astronomically difficult. If you are afraid of North Korea, you should be afraid of this school.