Overhills Middle School

I go to this school. I think it is pretty awesome. Mr. Schrock is cool, too. He totally acts different around other adults, but when he's around his students, its as if he's our age again. Somewhat. I love this school and do not the little flaws. Though, the mirrors were just taken out of most of the bathrooms, especially the girls' bathroom; not so cool on that one.

There is no way that this school is as bad as you say! I am not saying everyone does exactly what they are supposed to do. But, I guarantee that I was a teacher that was in constant contact with parents and students! You can still see it today! AS far as challenging, if you can not do the work, then it is challenging! So do not blame one incedent on all the teachers, who by the way take pride in what they do! I am a teacher and we do our job! No student is labeled, if kids are not acting right it starts at home!
--Submitted by a teacher

This school has serious issues with communication between teachers and the parent. I have had my child come in and tell me very disturbing things that the teachers have said, almost like they want to scare the children. Since day one of the first conference I asked for verbal/email communication but to no avail. It was only when I sent emails asking why they did certain things did they start but it quickly stopped. Classrooms don't have structure at all, I would know I sat in on one and was completely shocked. When a teacher tells me they're usually not this subtle, I knew there was a problem. Kids are "labeled" and treated as such. It's sad to have a school in this type of condition. Our future is sitting in those classes and with what you have teaching them, consider it over. It needs a turnaround and it needs one fast. Our kids are going into this world totally unprepared because teachers care more their pay than the students.
--Submitted by a parent

The education system at this school is out of control. The Teachers don't care about teaching, it seems to me they are there to collect a check every week. The board really needs to figure out how to fix this system, because the kids are the ones who are not going to be prepared. Let's see if they care, my guess is they don't, or the people teaching would not be teaching.
--Submitted by a parent

So glad that we moved away from this school, have had issues since the first week. No communication between teachers and parents (no call backs from principal either), classes way too big, school obviously cant handle this many kids since all 6th graders are separated in trailer like classrooms with no lockers. Projects are a bit much even for parents to help, son did more spelling and english in elementary school.
--Submitted by a parent

My experience with OMS was terrible. I have a child in the school and took it off in the middle in the year. The group avarage is about 33 per class. Too many kid to be controlled by the teachers. The teacher lost more than half of the class trying to controled the kids. Discipline is a joke. One of my kid teacher use nicknames with students. The principal have no idea on whats going on in the school.
--Submitted by a parent

I have 2 children in this school if you can call it that. The teachers dont challenge the kids. My kids havent had homework in 2 years. There's no report writting and only the occasional project. One project took 3 months and my child worked extremely hard to make it perfect and the teacher didnt grade them just gave everybody A's if they had one. One of my girl's male teachers spends more time talking to the girls about their favorite celebrities than teaching. At a fair they held last year, my wife and I were buying tickets 4/$1. We gave the person selling them $5 and we got 16 tickets. After correcting them and walking away my son said that it was his teacher. What does that say for the staff. We will be relocating after this year!
--Submitted by a parent

oms is a great adition of spring lake schools yes there is strict rules such as no high 5's and etc . The teachers look for great common scence and personality than the corect way how to teach the class. But the reason why I gave my school a 4 because we are great group of kids when we want to .fyi this letter is made by a six grader.
--Submitted by a student

The rules and regulations are very extreme for students within this age group. Some teachers are very unprofessional when not in the presence of an administrator/principal or assistant principle. The teachers are more focus on behaviors and seem to be more on the Mental Health Technician side of things than educating the young minds that are in attendance. Some of the teachers are very one sided in their approach to student issues or incidents......
--Submitted by a parent

OMS has been an awesome experience for us. My son has loved going to middle school and what a turn around from 5th grade! His academics skyrocketed, the teachers communicated and the staff really did care about the outcome of my son's success. The guidance staff was exceptional and Mrs. White goes way above and beyond. Front office is always pleasant and helpful! I am looking forward to the new principal this year...she was great as VP.
--Submitted by a parent