Veterans Park Academy for the Arts

"Check dailymail article on this school- they did nothing to protect an already-concerned mother about her child being bullied, and said daughter was afterwords filmed physically attacked in bathroom. Administration overlooks."

"They sent my daughter home nearly weekly to the point that they want to do an IEP because of her failing. How is a kid supposed to pass school when they're sent home every other day over belly aches and a fake cough? Most of the homework was never checked. They won't hold her back even though they should have because they curve the grades to make their school look better. Now they're evaluating her because she needed help finding her bus the first few weeks of school, she had the bus number memorized and they told us in order to have someone walk with her we have to sign a form which once the form was signed they switched her to the short bus. They left an 8 yo in charge of her. She would come home with marks on her face from being pushed down yet no incident reports were filed for her. Communication with staff is awful. The only decent person there is the social worker. We've been trying to get her into speech all year but she won't be able to begin until next year in the middle of the year. If it were up to me I'd switch her schools but they're saying it'll mess up her evaluation if I do now."

"To begin this school is a great school when it comes to an education point point of view and their programs. My son started at this school 4-5 months ago. At first he was loving it, the teachers seem to care and be involved with their students, he said the kids were nice. Recently he’s started to get bullied so I immediately called to let them know what was happening and other details. There are cameras and after I called and an incident happened there was proof and the kids who were doing the bullying got moved classes to where they wouldn’t even run into my child. That lasted about two weeks and other kids started picking on him in class. Apparently my son isn’t the only victim and other kids are getting it even worse. Scratches and marks on their body, kids getting punched. How far is this going to go? How long are parents not going to care what their child is doing in school to other kids? What’s it going to take for the school to do something and put a stop to it? My son is a smart child with a bright future and super empathetic he and other kids don’t deserve this."