William McKinley Elementary School

Totally agree with the parents that say the principal does nothing. She could care less about the kids and is only interested in furthering her career. What's worse is the district backs her poor decisions. It appears that they too want to help keep her record clean. The principal says "thank you for bringing this to my attention" then does nothing. She should add in "now I can quickly sweep this under the rug and manipulate the situation to protect myself and my career.". How about protecting the kids like you are paid to do? The teachers are amazing. They work so hard to teach our children even when their classes grow every year. They do a fantastic job. Even though they have a principal that doesn't discipline kids that disrupt their classes. It makes a tough job even tougher but these teachers get their job done. Too bad the principal doesn't do hers. The PTA is amazing and works very hard to raise money so that our kids have great programs provided to them. Overall it's a good school but really needs a new principal that puts the kids and their safety first.
--Submitted by a parent

The principal never addresses issues brought to her attention. She has a total disregard for bullying, foul language and unacceptable behavior. She enables bullying by never disciplining the students who exhibit poor behavior time and time again. When approached she simply says "thank you for bringing this to my attention". I am very disappointed that whenver issues are brought to her attention, they never actually get any attention and are quickly dismissed. I have seen this on numerous occasions. That being said, McKinley has some amazing teachers and staff it's a shame that I cannot same about the principal .
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I agree with the parent who says the principle has a disregard for bullying. I believe it is rampant in this school. My child comes home with so many stories that need immediate teacher principle intervention but instead is told to stop tattling. Again in agreement with the "no student left behind" comment. My child is having a few struggles in the 4th grade and needs a little extra help. The school now does what they call intervention courses in math and language arts- the intervention classes are just as big as the normal class size so again no real help there. I asked the principle if they had something where my child can get one on one and she responded" that aint gonna happen". The school gets an A+ for fun activities and keeping the students entertained but fails in my book when it comes to getting the students to understand work given and actually apply it.
--Submitted by a parent

I am very disppointed in this school! Not enough home work for 5th and 6th grades! and a lot more can't say it here. hopefully they will give kids more attention and more homework and may be BOOKS? Not happy parent.
--Submitted by a parent

The basic outline structure of the school is good, but the classes are too large for a teacher to help a small group, let alone one child who cannot keep up in class. If the kids aren't getting it, they just push onto the next subject, and give them crazy amounts of homework which even I as a parent am struggling with! The teacher is very nice, but I would like to see more understanding of the children. "No children left behind:" is definitely not the case here. Have no complaints about any of the staff, and the PTA does a great job with fundraisers.
--Submitted by a parent

I love Mckinley and the staff here are amazing, however not sper excited about the principal, she seems to have a constant disreguard for bullying and other important issues, she never makes time and is always too busy for parents. However I ahve 3 kids here now and have never been unhappy with the teachers infact I have never seen a better group of teachers!!!!
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We have enjoyed all the teachers. All staff are hard-working and love kids. Our daughters can't wait for this year to begin!!!!

We are very happy with Mckinley, my son had Mrs Kliss for Kindergarten and she was awesome! The principal was very involved and had a lot of fun family activities to offer. Looking forward to 1st grade!
--Submitted by a parent

Two years and two GREAT TEACHERS but 2 years of a completely non responsive principal. She is terrible and now in our second year, and only 3rd month of the school year there are already 4 serious incidents that Ms. Neumann has completely disregarded. She is dismissive with parents attempting to communicate, takes no responsibility and her favorite line before brushing you off is "thanks for bring it to my attention, I'll look into it" . but nothing happens, children are now being endangared by her lack of attention to what is happening on campus.
--Submitted by a parent

I love Mrs Bailey the Kindergarten teacher.She is th best and i still wonder why McKinley is ranked 7 being a great school.
--Submitted by a parent