McLane Middle School

I am extremely dissatisfied with McLane. I am in the process of removing my child due to the multiple problems she receives here. The faculty does not seem much to care, but rather make excuses that 'kids are kids'. Death threats to my child are not 'ok' to me. Also, my complaints to the school board to less than 'important'.
—Submitted by a parent

This is an aging school that has been featured on a news program entitled 'Dirty Dining.' There are several dedicated teachers who strive to lead the pupils to excel in academics and in life. However, the school is woefully overcrowded, underfunded, and unable to provide adequate learning resources to the students. This is a school with all the problems of an inner city school and without the resources to deal with those problems.
—Submitted by a parent

Mclane is a good but certain teachers are not as good as they can be.
—Submitted by a parent

I really don't feel that this school gives their 100% to the children, we come from a different area and the teaching ability differs from there to here. Maybe because we don't put enough emphisis on learning for our children, we would rather play are sports, acting and other things than fund our teachers what they need and deserve to teach our children.
—Submitted by a parent

Good school, overall. Overcrowded though, not enough classrooms or textbooks. I think most of the teachers are very caring and the staff is great. They need to enforce the dress code like they promised to do at the beginning of the year. When they held parent/teacher conferences this month not many parents showed up for my daughters team. There were four teachers there from her team, each teacher had about 150 students they taught a day, only two parents showed up for the conferences and we were one of them, pitiful.
—Submitted by L Parker, a parent

I am a grandprant of two students at this school they do not have homework and can not bring the text books home to study from. They need this to help improve with their grades. We have a study time for them after school. As parents of the children that attend this school we all have a responabilty to the school to help our children.We need the support of the teachers and the parents to make sure that our children get a good quality education. We do not need to hold the teachers at fault for all of the down falls of the children, as parents we need to make sure that our children have a study time when they come home, and to assist them with their study time. The teachers have more than a hundred students a day and we my only have two or three please help.Vsb
—Submitted by venus baker, a parent

In my opinion, this is the worst middle school in Hillsborough County. The academic's here are substandard, and the school does not participate in the '0' tolerance for violence. Not as far as I can see anyway. I will be pulling my daughter out of this school as soon as possible.
—Submitted by a parent

I find our sons teachers caring, but lacking in supplies or support. This year is difficult for everyone with all the reconstruction of the buildings. There appears to be little or no enforcement of a dress code or interventions for foul language and gestures. This should not be tolerated as it errodes the ability of the teacher to teach and other students to grow in an atmosphere conducive to education. These folks need help. Parent participation and volunteers at the school would be a start. Visit sometime and take a look at what these educators are dealing with on an everyday basis. It's a shame! The school board needs to wake-up and help.
—Submitted by Dawn, a parent

The problem with McLane is not the staff. My son in 7th has a core of good teachers however, the school is critically over crowded and my son was robbed and a student attempted to beat him up. As a result his grade are suffering and he now says he hates school. I am looking for an alternative for my son's sake. It's a shame.
—Submitted by a parent

My children just started going to this school and so far I am very disappointed. There are approx. 1,600 students which is far too many. There are no text books. My children aren't learning correctly because they cannot bring home text books with them.
—Submitted by a parent