SST Spring — Local services in Spring

In my short life, I have seen many examples of respectable schools. SST Spring, sadly, isn't one of them. I have been at this school for three years, and it has been a downhill ride since the beginning. When I first enrolled in the school, I had a love for learning that was nothing like any other kid. This school, however, took that joy and hit it with a big yellow school bus.

There are many things wrong for the school. For example, every single day I have a fear for my health and wellbeing, and it's barely even about the students. I have found alive bugs scurrying throughout the hallway. Heck, two times in just the past year alone have there been birds flying throughout the school. There is half eaten food, dirty paper, and even people's clothes littered throughout the hallways, classrooms, even outside. I haven't even mentioned the structural integrity of the school. What I mean by structural integrity is the floors, walls, and ceiling being dirty, damaged, heck even gone. Most of the walls have chunks taken out of them and part of the ceiling of the middle school boys' bathroom is just missing. I won't describe the rest of the bathroom, but you get the idea. I have seen many people stealing mirrors, soap dispensers, even a stall door from the bathroom, and none of the teachers do anything about it. I don't know how the stall door was stolen, but it was.

My second complaint about this school is the teachers themselves. While yes, this school has had many great teachers who actually like teaching and create a friendly environment in their class, this school only has four in my grade (right now). I won't specify the names, but it's my ELA teacher, Social Studies teacher, my Spanish teacher, and my art teacher. My math teacher, at least for a good part of the year, just gave us packets, wrote a formula on the board, and sat down, just watching us struggle. Yes, if you had a question, she would answer it, but not before belittling you. I understand that it was in a joking way, but I wished she did it in a more obvious way. Then there's my science teacher. I don't think he should even be a science teacher. He is originally Turkish and barely knows English. He has to pronounce complicated words that we don't know so we end up getting more confused, but then again, I don't feel bad because he doesn't even teach us anything. The only time he actually taught us was when the superintendent came for a class check. That was when I lost all of my respect for him. The rest of the school year he's just made us do Flocabulary, which if you don't know is an app that has all these videos about different subjects, which sounds interesting and would be good for a class, but when that's the only thing he does to teach us, it's just lazy. I didn't even know if he had the ability to teach us, so I asked him. "Sir, what degree do you have?" You know what he said, "Of course." Another time, we were taking a test when I asked him a question. I said it in a weird way, but instead of talking me through it, he screamed, "Get out of my classroom!" locked the door on me and gave me a referral. There was also one time when I stood up without permission, I don't remember for what (Probably to sharpen my pencil) when he called me up and said he was calling my parents. I don't know what he was going to tell them, but he was calling them, so he picked up his phone, didn't dial a number or anything, and just sat there, waiting for a response. There's also my PLTW teacher, which is basically just coding with extra steps, who didn't grade anything for two months which resulted in me almost failing her class, to my Character Ed teacher, which teaches you how to be a better person, hating everyone in my entire class, but this paragraph is getting too long.

There are many more problems like the school's horrible planning, crowd control, or the food being inedible, but you get the idea. The only positive reviews were from faculty who work there (I'm not joking.) If it were up to me, this is a choice school I would choose...

Avoid SST Spring: A Nightmare Experience

Our experience with SST Spring was nothing short of horrible and nightmarish from day one. I strongly recommend steering clear of this school for several reasons:

Overcrowded Classrooms Classroom sizes in my child’s grade level ranged from 27–31 students, with only one teacher and no assistant. This severely compromised education quality and individual attention.

Unclear Fund Allocation The school frequently held fundraisers without communicating how the funds were used. As parents, we were repeatedly asked to pay fees for simple activities like “jean day” or special privileges that should have been complimentary. These practices felt exploitative.

Bullying and Lack of Accountability The school’s culture fosters bullying, particularly from students whose parents work there. These students often escaped consequences, leaving my child and others to endure constant harassment. Worse, when bullied children defended themselves, the administration imposed harsh and unjust punishments.

Biased Investigations and Administration Failures Complaints of bullying were ignored by Mr. Braho, the Dean of Discipline, who distorted incidents to fit his narrative. He interrogated my child during school hours without parental presence and relied on the accounts of bullies rather than conducting impartial investigations.

Continuous Harassment Even after our child was moved to a new class, the bullying persisted. Despite meetings with teachers, administration, and the parents of the bullies, no action was taken to resolve the issue.

Unfair Disciplinary Actions Over time, my child was repeatedly targeted with exaggerated disciplinary measures, including being written up for trivial infractions like “gossiping.” Reports were skewed to blame my child while excusing the aggressors. Our child, who has consistently achieved A-B honor roll status at both her former school and SST Spring, had no prior disciplinary issues before attending this school. Despite her strong academic and behavioral record, she faced escalating and unjust punishments.

Final Decision: Leaving SST Spring To protect our child’s mental health, we made the difficult decision to withdraw from SST Spring with 27 days left in the school year. This was our first—and last—year at this school.

Ultimately, SST Spring failed to provide a safe and equitable environment for our child. I urge all parents to consider these issues before choosing...

As a former student of 3 years, my life with SST Spring wasn't all too bad. SST has made my life better but also made it more of a struggle. They promote emotions everyone should have, like interests, but no one had that, not even teachers! I am now in the 8th, forced to move there due to the school.

What are the great things? The school has great things with education with certain teachers! These teachers help you out specially and help out with struggles. Say my 6th math teacher, Mrs._, she was someone who helped me understand so much in math that helps me now. She told me all about the basics and everything. Also, my 6th and 7th social studies teacher.who left after a year, she went into history so much and sometimes looked like she enjoyed her job. Hope for both their well-being!

What about the bad side? There are many things on the bad side, like laziness, hate, favoring, and not exactly helping out. There were many teachers I never liked because of this, although some I liked because they were chill. I am a kid who understands fast. I'm in honors classes or advanced of now what you. I have seen my classmates struggle, and instead of them going to the teacher, sometimes they come to me. This is due to the teachers not really helping out. It sometimes makes me sad that they weren't helping. Last year, I hadn't really learned anything, and because I'm in honors this year,[all years from when it started], it is tougher because I'm starting off something new. Yet I hope the school has changed or will.

Last thing, the students. The students create ruckess to the learning environment with vandilisation, fights, and serious bullying. Want to be honest and say that I teased my friends and best friends for many reasons as they did the same. Although I have seen people in other classes as such, I did not like other people teasing them, and it wouldn't stop. Also, the vandalism, IT SUCKS. There Sooo much stuff getting destroyed or changed. Bathrooms getting torn, painted, and more. The toilet seats have paint on them, and the walls have holes or inappropriate drawings. You can not go in peace as people are always banging the doors or throwing pee or water paper balls over the stall walls. The staff do nothing about it!

I just want to say that the school is alright. I had an OK time during all of this, I just want this school...