Mason Middle School

I find that Mason Middle School is poorly ran. The board put over half our fiscal funds into athletic; however, there was not equipment available for my child on a sports team. The board turned down an academic program request funds for supplies. The reasoning was that they didn't want other programs asking for money and the atheletic department should be supported. As a parent, I believe we should be preparing our children academically first.
--Submitted by a parent

I was a student there 6-8th grade and moved after a few weeks of 8th it was a pretty welll organized school with great teachers that help you through just about everything. I miss it.
--Submitted by a student

It's very difficult for teachers to teach classes when students are rude, irresponsible, dissobedient and disrespectful. As a step-parent with children who attend other schools, my heart goes out to many of the Mason middle school young people(grades 6-8), because of their lack of values and self-disclipline they should be learning at home. When attending sporting events at Mason I'm dissappointed in the lack of positve parental rolemodels the students at Mason have. Education, character developement, values, integrity and learning to grow into a responsible adult starts at home. At Mason Jr. High I observe teachers striving to teach under very stressful and negative conditions (simular to inner city schools) with very little parental help. Until children's parents live as good rolemodels, Mason's schools and their students will continue to struggle and suffer the consequences. The school's rundown gym, and dirty and graffitied restrooms are symbolic of its deteriorating family values.
--Submitted by Dawn Hall-Bialorucki, a parent

I think the teachers spend more time handing out detentions than they do teaching thier students. A kid forgets his pencil or it falls out of his folder before class what do they get? A detention. Alot of kids do not even want to go to school anymore because they are always getting a detention. What happen to punishing a kids for the proper reasons for doing something wrong, like fighting or talking back to a teacher. This school is the most unfair school that I have seen. Something needs to be done to help these students get a reasonable chance at a proper punishment.
--Submitted by a parent