Jerome Mack Middle School

This school does nothing against bullying and harrasment and fights! My daughter is at the end of 7th grade. Since the end of her 6th grade shes been getting bullied and harrased and when i confronted the dean all she does is compare it to her personal life and does nothing about the problem. My daughter has then since been failing and they do nothing to contact you and when she got bullied and jumped the first time, she got in trouble along with the girl that jumped her because she defended herself!!! Its ridiculous that their solution so she wont get bullied/jumped is for her to go out of her way and stay after school so she wont see the other girls and then walk home alone after all school is out. They have no control over this school. In other words, if your kid at this school is being bullied and gets jumped and your child defends themselves, they will get in trouble and get put into the step program along with the other bully!!! Worst Deans and staff i've ever dealt with.

Under the leadership of Principal Roxanne Kelley, Mack Middle school has become a great school. Their focus is on providing a quality education and in getting the kids to think about college. The grant they received this year to provide every student a netbook put all the students on a level playing ground and gave them needed exposure to technology. The standard school attire, voted in by the families, has also helped the students at the school to recognize it as a community.

Do not send your child to this school!! It is so bad, we are yanking our child out. The first day of school I had to go down and complain about a teacher telling the students inappropriate stories about his home life. The kids can only wear 3 colors and that goes for coats to, no accessories, and the teachers are insane about enforcing it. Our child's coat got food spilled on it and needed to be clean so she wore her spare jacket and got dress coded because it was black. Yet you can not get anyone to enforce the anti- bullying rules this dress code is supposed to prevent. 4 times me and my husband had to go to the school because of kids starting fights with our child and almost breaking her friend's arm. The dean could careless. My child's dream is to be a singer and yet the choir teacher can't even be bothered to separate the kids correctly. Instead separating them by height instead of soprano, alto and so on. My children's classmates were caught by their parents watching porn during school hours, they checked the kid's computer history, yet no teacher even noticed. The list of problems is endless.

As a 7th soon to be 8th grade student at Mack I find it a horrible school! Most students at Mack like to get into trouble and start up drama. The staff there is ok, I guess. Some teachers are really strict while only a few aren't as strict. I honestly feel like the staff at this school wants you to be perfect for them. Many teachers give too much unecessary homework. The uniforms are also pretty dry because you only get three colors to choose from which are white, khaki, and navy blue. Plus they have to be SOLID colors and if you want to wear a jacket it must also be solid colors! I often over hear other students speaking about leaving Mack for the next school year as I wish to do also. I would not recommend this school to anyone