Anderson School District 5 400 Pearman Dairy Road, Anderson, SC 29625

"I’m so glad we left district 5 and SC all together. If your child isn’t a straight A student who can play a sport, they’re useless and left behind. Throughout my 6 years dealing with district 5, I was continually met with pushback when advocating not only for my autistic child, but for all special needs children. District 5 fired a preschool nurse due to budget cuts in 2019 which led to many children forced to stay home due to medications not being administered, all the while buying new amenities for sports teams. Teachers are forced into silence at risk of losing their jobs for disagreeing with policies, and the school board is self serving when they’re elected to be selfless servants. Overall, we had great teachers, but due to backwoods, “good ole boy” policies, district 5 will never get more than a 1 star review from me. SC needs a major education reform, but it can start on the district level, someone just has to care enough in the district to initiate change."

"Ok well they can't even give me my son's school bus number for Whitehall elementary. It's so unorganized. Geee. I had to miss work today because of it."

"This is the worst district.. The bus driver come whenever she feel like it... Making the kids late for school, missing out on breakfast. She be late picking the kids up from school. Call district 5 to see what's going on they be clueless about everything..."

"I was trying to get my daughter back into in person school a week before school start. They were supposed to send me a email. Never got it. Went down there to speak in person. They listen to my issue and said they we call/email. NEVER GOT ONE. No we have to do online school watch she isn't doing well. It's not just names on a paper. It's parents trying to do there best for there kids. I should have gotten that email in time so I could have found a better option!"