Roach Middle School

It’s an ok school just not the best though.

Great! I am on my 2nd child at this school. The teachers and staff are so accessible to the students if there are questions or extra help is needed. Ultimately they want to see their students succeed and they afford them the opportunities and resources to do so. The teachers at this school are great.

Terrible. This school needs to be overhauled from the top down. FISD needs to step in NOW. The cursing, the bullying, the fighting, and the overall disrespect are out of control. The kids are running this circus and the teachers need disciplinary support so they can teach. We're having to reteach at home to maintain passing grades, because the teachers can't get through the material. The good teachers are eventually going to stop returning for the abuse. Put administrators in the hallways during every single passing period, on the buses, outside after dismissal, and demand better. Encourage the teachers to send the kids the second they act up and actually punish the kids! The teachers have enough to do, your job is to maintain control of the school. And if you can't, get more adults in the building until you can. These kids will live up to the expectations you have for them, but you need standards for that. Punish a few and word will spread quickly that you are enforcing. Please FISD, send in undercover observers as substitutes and see for yourselves firsthand.

Awful. My child is miserable at this school. He is learning very little and is not challenged whatsoever. He's been bullied, physically assaulted, and chased home by juvenile thugs. The place is a complete zoo. Teachers tend to be lazy, forgetful and irritable. The school is so "diverse" that I think the admin. and teachers forget that we are in the United States. This, in turn, tends to influence the teaching style and content as to not offend certain students. Rather than learn about the Constitution and reading Great Books, my student is busy learning about Socialism and Communism, and from the teachers tone of voice, according to my student, these concepts were regarded as equal to Free Enterprise and this great Republic. "They make things more equal", I believe was the statement he heard form his "World Cultures" teacher. The other day my child told me they were wasting time learning how to write in Chinese rather than learning grammar or punctuation. Needless to say, we pulled my child out and we will be attending a classical charter school next year. A school where kids learn what made the West great and why everyone wants to live here. Take my advice, avoid public schools all together.