Emerson-academy Reviews

Dean W and Dean Foster are horrible

Administrative staff are so unprofessional My son was expelled after making one mistake He was a student there for 2 years and no infractions It basically comes down to another child s version and my son s They just took the other child s statement as 100 accurate giving my son no chance to really sit down and tell his side He was aggressively asked by the male Dean Foster about what he said my son felt intimidated and gave a vague recount Because of that he now has to start at a different school with different peers in the middle of his 8th grade year They have labeled my son as threatening the life of a staff member when the context of what he said was about disappointment in not being in his favorite teacher s class after the teacher returned from leave They did not call us parents to the school the day it happened and my son finished out the school day If he was indeed as threatening as you say why do that We were called and told that he was suspended on Thursday evening told that we would receive a call on Friday or Monday and be included in the determination of punishment process Tuesday arrives and it took a concerned teacher to find out for us that they had already made the decision to expel I tried to have 2 conversations with Dean W She is unprofessional arrogant and rude She hung up on me not to long into the second conversation after making sure to laugh and snicker at my concerns I mean when I answered the phone for the second conversation her first words were do you still want to have this conversation with all kinds of attitude mixed in No concern compassion empathy professionalism nothing Like I was wasting her time She just kept referring to this zero tolerance policy for violence which I agree with 100 in cases of a real threat Like the bullying that goes on at the school that they don t seem concerned with But they expelled my child for a comment that was no real threat and the child that told on my son said it was for his own good The staff relayed that bit of priceless information to my son With all that being said we are probably better off It just sickens me to see the emotional devastation that my son is going through He has a fairly recent diagnosis of ADHD and suffers from social anxiety Having to start a brand new school is scary right now His dad and I love him so much and we think he is an amazing kid We are behind him Too bad the same couldn t be said for the other adults in his life Parents beware of this school