Delaware Academy of Public Safety and Security

"Hoo boy, did I have an experience here. The one place that not only robbed my entire teenhood, but perhaps a portion of what was to come in my life. Travel back to 2012, freshman year. Things were fine at first. First two semesters, my grades were fine. I had at least a C in one class. Now I'll come clean to the fact that I was struggling with some ADHD back then. Most people weren't tolerant with it. I'm pretty sure you know how the rest goes; alot of insults towards me, pushing, and people nearly fighting me. And to make matters worse weeks later, word goes out that I was learning MMA. Almost everyone in the school wanted to fight me. Ring any bells to anyone who's reading this? I had no friends, no support, and I was shut both up and out from everyone. I was always the kid in the empty seat. I simply stopped talking from that point on. Now some people that recognize me will try to wrong me and say that I've been shut up or hit in the face because I said something to piss you off. You were the one who said something first, so what gives you right to not allow me to say anything back? And I know I wasn't the only one getting this treatment. And the staff thought of me as some slacker since my grades declined. I REALLY hate coming clean to this, but I would come home a sobbing wreck. My mind was an empty space from then on out. You have no idea what type of mental hell this place put me through. I've even dealt with racial problems as well. Some thought I was asian, so they kept calling me either Hong Kong, ch*ng ch*ng, etc. Others that knew my actual ethnicity would put me aside and ask me things like, "Where's your green card, sp*ck?". As my sympathy goes for students that had nowhere to go after it's closure, I'm honestly glad it's down. I don't know what it was like after my first and only year there, but if this kept on going with anyone else, someone would've done something awful. And I knew others had this treatment. And not a single staff member did anything about it that year (I don't know if anything changed or was enforced years later regarding the matters of bullying. I hope it did). But if anyone who has attended this school and was a victim as well, feel free to come clean about this. If you read throughout this entire review, I hope you remember me and what you put me through. I won't lie, it still haunts me, and I think about it every day since I stepped out of the school. If there was something below a one star, I'd graciously go below it. Shocked that anybody has talked so little about this."

"Bring back dapss"

"This school has the potential of doing big things. The school seems to have made big changes since I've graduated, and they seem to make constant effort to improve. I can't provide any info on the staff. The staff that worked at DAPSS when I was a student there have almost left completely with the exception of a few who started shortly before my graduation. Good luck Dapss. -Dapss 2016 Almunus"

"If i could give this school no star i would they dont desere any its absolutly terrible. Their water is yellow which isnt safe for the kids. The students dont get any type of education ive learned more in pre-school then ive ever learned in this school. They set kids up for failure. Unless you want your kids going to a run down dirty school where they will get no education i woulld NOT send your child here and if you signed them up for next year take them out ."