“The whole school is under a de-escalation policy, so no matter what happens, none of the kids are yelled at or told they absolutely must do this or they’re going to get suspended,” Walker said. He also said he received a gun threat, and was followed off campus by the same student that threatened him. He said he was hit by students in front of his classes, prompting him to wear a padded bike suit to work. He started in February, taking over for a monthslong vacancy. It’s not only parents who are fed up: Music teacher Ethan Walker just resigned this week. Most teachers don’t speak Spanish either, so Calahorrano said her son ends up translating what the teacher says to his Spanish-speaking friend.īoth Reyes and Calahorrano said they have reached out to the district, and received minimal responses, if any. Therefore, Reyes said, there are no parent conferences to discuss the school’s issues with the principal, causing frustration among Latinx families. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Reyes said four of her children’s teachers have left during this school year, and her children’s friends are transferring to other schools.
“That worries me as a mother, because I expect my children to be in the classroom learning and not trying to get out of the classroom, right?” “In fact, my daughter told me yesterday, ‘Mami, I left and the substitute didn’t notice,’” Reyes said in Spanish. With reports of violence and oversized classes due to missing teachers, Reyes said she’s afraid, and her children are, too. More than the academics, Olga Reyes said she worries about her two sixth-graders’ safety when she sends them to Everett. Her son, bored, would complain, and ask about transferring to a better school.
“The principal never told us that.” It turned out the same thing was happening in three of her son’s other classes. “The science teacher was out for four months, and I didn’t even know,” she said. As a result of the poor supervision, or unengaged substitutes, teachers and parents say students wander the halls and in and out of other classrooms, and fights break out frequently - between students and, on several occasions, involving teachers. Calahorrano said the administration often failed to notify her about violent incidents.
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