Union Academy Magnet School 1795 East Wabash Street, Bartow, FL 33830

"A lot of the staff and teachers just shouldn’t be working in schools in the first place. They clearly don’t like children. The school is generally more focused on enforcing crazy rules than actually teaching. The PE program is just ridiculous for probably obvious reasons. The dress code is too strict. Lunchtime is awful because they make you stay in assigned seats and the lunch monitor especially is rude. it seemed to get a bit better in 8th grade with this kind of stuff. They do prepare you to learn more and they offer honors classes which I think is nice because you can get hs credits and separate yourself from certain kids. But I think they could go about things differently and maybe all the kids wouldn’t be miserable there."

"the school was a prison the teachers treated you like you didn't know what you were doing and you would get a lunch detention if you breathed in the wrong direction the only time that it is good is in the 8 th grade when the teachers treat you like a respectable human being"

"It is not a good school at all. It only gets good in 8th grade. You will get detention for talking across the table in the morning and at lunch. But the teachers in 6th and 7th are Like jail guards they get on you for everything."

"Stuck up staff! I thought this school was going to be great for my child but turns out I was wrong she went there for 6th and half of seventh, I wish I would have changed her schools a while ago because she’s so much happier now."

"This school is like jail. Most times you aren't allowed to go to the bathroom. There is a wasp problem also. The office staff are snippy. I hated this school. People almost die at PE because the coaches are heartless. They don't let us get water sometimes. There is no time inbetween classes so you are pretty much always late for class. Although some teachers are cool, some of them are like satan. They stopped putting soap and paper towels in the bathrooms also. On jeans days (that cost $10) we were not aloud to wear skinny jeans or joggers even though that's all most of the students there own. I wassail placed in a Community and Service class that I did not ask for that I was not able to it out of where I had to complete a service project that other students in my grade didn't have to. The teachers also teach really fast and give alot of homework. Anyways this school is hell I don't reccomend it if you don't want your child to kill themself. The stress is crazy. One time, I missed a day of school and my A went down to a C on my progress report that came out the day I was back. So my parents thought I was slacking. Literally don't put your kids in this school. They act all nice and perfect when you go on a tour or at orientation but it's not like that. The dress code is also ridiculously strict. Please don't make your child go through all that. "Prepared for highschool" they say but no one in high school likes Union kids because they are losers an get beat up and bullied. I promise it's better to not go there and be a normal kid."