Finneytown Elementary

Reviews

• Submitted by parent on October 02, 2024
  My daughter started her Kindergarten year so excited! I am so sad to write this review a year later. The experience my daughter had at Finneytown Elementary was absolutely horrible. I will preface my review with this, if you want your child to be bullied, send your child here. Otherwise do yourself the biggest favor and avoid this school like the plague. My daughter in her year there was stabbed in the hand with a pencil, pushed into the fence on the playground, pinched, pushed. That doesn’t even include the emotional aspect of what she went through. The school did NOTHING. I understand my child could have done something to trigger this, but every time I tried to get to the bottom of it and what happened, no answers were ever given. I called the assistant principal and voiced my concerns. Nothing changed and it continued. I had an appointment to discuss it in person, didn’t help. What happened at the end of the meeting was me being told “after seeing you it makes sense”. Her referring to the fact that I was 6 months pregnant. Essentially saying that I reacted and tried to get resolution PERSISTENTLY because I was pregnant. Not okay. As a parent I figured, I’d like to have a conversation with other parents if my child was bullying so I could discuss the issues and get it resolved. That wasn’t allowed, which I understand there’s privacy laws, etc. but if you don’t allow the parents to discuss then the school REALLY needs to step up their system in how they handle bullying. We ended up moving our family to a better school district JUST TO AVOID THE SCHOOL. It is THAT bad. Please avoid this school at all costs, I promise you, it’s not worth your child’s physical and emotional safety. Go literally anywhere else. My daughter since switching schools has LOVED going to school at her new school. She hasn’t been bullied even once, and she is thriving. I wish there were reviews like this prior to sending my daughter here. It could’ve saved us and her so much heart ache. ...More Reviews
• Submitted by parent on October 02, 2024
  Before my child started school at Finneytown, they were happy, care-free, confident, and everybody was a friend. After just 1 year (1st grade), the bullying was so bad, my child became full of anxiety, depressed, confidence plummeted, and they had panic attacks around other kids that looked like the bullies. I repeatedly brought it up to the teacher, the bus drivers, and the principal and it was NEVER handled effectively. The bullies lied (of course) and the adult would just say, “Well, they said they didn’t do it and we can’t prove it.” THIS emboldens bullies. They got away with it! Now they will be even sneakier, escalate their behavior, lie and manipulate people better. That’s what the bullies learn at this school. And the good kids learn they can get abused and nobody will help. Some of the good kids get quiet, isolate, and try to be invisible in hopes the bullies leave them alone. This school won’t hold kids or parents accountable and they can’t keep kids safe. How can kids learn if they’re in an unsafe environment? Look at their test scores. This doesn’t even include the unhealthy food, coming home with inappropriate language, inappropriate gestures, and learning things from classmates they should not know! PLEASE RUN FAR AWAY! Please explore other options. It’s taken a long time to undo the damage from this place. Some of the damage can never be undone. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Please protect your children from this environment! It’s a pretty new building but looks are deceiving. It’s what is inside that counts. The behavior inside that building is toxic and damaging. ...More Reviews

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