Abbett Elementary

I feel that there are some excellent teachers at Abbett. However, they have no backup in the classroom from administration and therefore there are a plethora of behavioral problems that are swept under the rug in addition to bullying! Bullying in elementary school should not even be an issue should it??? It feels real warm and fuzzy on the outside. Then, when you become a part of the school, you realize that warm and fuzzy feeling was just lines of bull. Not from most teachers though. The teachers deserve a raise!!!

The teachers at Abbett Elementary are great. However, the administration this year is just awful. We have had instances where kids were violent in class rooms, throwing objects, kicking walls, pushing other kids head into walls repeatedly etc. and the student was not punished whatsoever. Being sent to the principal's office WAS the punishment. We had another instance that a child touched another child's private parts, but it was over looked because "they were singing and their arms may have been flying around causing this child to touch another's butt and vagina". Nothing happened. When I talked to the principal, she said she would look over first time offenses of inappropriate touch until a child is 9 years old, UNLESS a child is sitting in a chair in class, another child gets up in the middle of class and goes over and touches another student's private parts. SCARE! Bottom line, the administration at Abbett does nothing in order to keep offenses to be reported to the state.

Abbett has a "School Wide Management" plan, which is separate from GISD's code of conduct, that allows students to commit "Level 3 Offenses" such as, fighting, racial slurs, sexual assault, etc. up to 7 times before being suspended. And the absolute best part of this management plan is that it is RESET every six weeks. So all students start with a clean slate to repeat offenses 7 times within a six weeks before being suspended.

If I were you, I would consider sending your child anywhere but here unless new administration is brought in. The current administration does not send out the "School Wide Management" plan at the beginning of the year, so you only find out about it once something has happened and you ask them to provide it to you.