Fort Middle School

I attended this school while in the 7th grade. They were racially discriminate, religiously discriminate, and was by far the worst experience of my childhood. Had I known then what I know now, legal action would've been the result, given the multitude of Laws and Rights this school violates. Judging from the other reviews, not much has changed.

Fort Middle School is an EXCELLENT SCHOOL. We have wonderful, intelligent, beautiful, well-rounded, highly educated students - great parents and a very supportive and involved community. The faculty and staff members are hard working, caring, smart, dedicated, and always willing to go the extra mile. We educate the total child. We are Fort Middle School, The Best Middle School in the World!!! I am so proud to be a Patriot!!!!
--Submitted by a teacher

After having many issues with bullying at this school, I took my children out and put them in a more diverse atmosphere. For any parent who is concerned with gang activity, bullying, or lack of caring, you might take heed and listen more to those comments then the biased comments coming from the so called educators that drag themselves to Fort Middle School on a daily basis to spit the garble verbatim from the book. Their motto is, "The Best Middle School in the World". To me, it should be, "The Best Middle School on Woodruff Farm Road. The bullying was so bad that the police were called after some child this child sent a nice uppercut to my son's left chin and left a nasty bruise for a week. All because my son was standing in the front of the classroom paying attention and the other child wanted that particular spot. Then they had the nerve to WAIT 2 hours to call me! It wasn't the first time my children had been bullied at that school, but it will certainly be the LAST. My children are now proud Veterans Memorial Rangers!
--Submitted by a parent

This school needs a serious turnaround. They are disorganized, and sadly, somewhat prejudiced. The curriculum, focus, ( on art, history, and theatre especially ) is overwhelmingly African-American based, which is wonderful for those students. The Caucasian students feel left out and isolated. ( and will always, ALWAYS be wrong in a dispute ) Aside from these issues, the school itself claims to help with various online databases for parents that are never kept up to date, etc. The communication to parents is absolutely horrible and lax. Overall, I wouldn't send my child here if I could help it.
--Submitted by a parent

The teachers at Fort work very hard to enrich and educate my child. I have the option to put my child elsewhere but choose to stay at Fort and I am glad I did. I have never seen individuals so dedicated to helping students and reaching children on all levels. Plus I have yet to drive by another middle school and see teachers still at work at 6:30 - 7:00 pm. These teachers work hard and expect alot from their students. I love their policy of zeroes are not an option. My child has learned this the hard way. It woke them up after staying afterschool twice to complete a missing assignment. I think with the new adminastration and new group of deciated teachers Fort will recover from its past reputation. I can't wait till they become a charter school based on service learning.
--Submitted by a parent

The teachers at Fort are wonderful. They go above and beyond to help students who open to getting help. The put in extra hours to be sure students excell. The principal changed during our three yrs here, and Ms. Coxam is excellent. The school needs to stop letting some many children hardship out and keep the well behaved kids in their school. There does seem to be a lack of respect with a lot of the students there, that needs to change.
--Submitted by a parent

Fort middle school is a horrible learning environment for the students because my daughter went there and she didn't like it. The students would always disrupt the classroom and would never do there homework. Most of the students there don't want to learn. I am not saying all of the students but a majority of them don't care about there education.
--Submitted by a parent

i think fort middle school is the best. teachers are so caring.
--Submitted by a student

This school is better than other schoo that my child has attended but needs to work on helping thew students in 8th grade that is still in regular math.I think the team teacher needs to really and actually needs to help then if they needs tutoring they might be afraid to ask their teacher for help just of the embarrassment of other students. I don't think it is necessary to give them work that they don't understand and whenthe teacher gets back, grades it and the students gets an f just because on one section of the section they didn't know how to do because the teacher wasn't there to ezxplain how to do it and the student is wondering why they got an f because it wasn't their fault that the teacher left them and didn't explain how to do it before he/she left. I think my child worked hard the 1st nine weeks but wanted honor roll really bad but messed up in math in 8th grade. She recieved a c in regular math class and i would like for her to be in pre-algebra and works hard and hopefully the teacher on that particular team gives more help that and take a break from giving all grades and just make them do assignments, check it and help them on what ever they didn't get right.Overall i'm glad my child attend fort middle school.
--Submitted by a parent