Thomas Viaduct Middle School

7000 Banbury Drive

School District

Howard County Public Schools
Grade

6-8
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:13
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by student on August 08, 2024

I'm about to graduate from this school and I have to say I am disappointed in this school. We have fights almost every day, and the administration doesn't do anything to punish the fighters, instead, they suspend people who have done minor things instead of actually suspending the people who fight. The teachers do not teach, they are making us do work without instructions and then they wonder why we have bad grades. This school has also taken a mental toll on me and multiple others at this school, making it a non-safe environment for substantial learning or just being here in general. Kids come to this school everyday scared of what may happen and it's not funny. And then the school expects us to lie to people who do not come here about this school and act like our school is perfect and everything is fine.(PARENTS: I am not overreacting or making things up just to make the school look bad, instead I am reviewing on personal experience and the experiences of my classmates and peers. Thank you.)
Submitted by student on April 25, 2024

yes everybody has there own idea in this school, some things aren't meant for everybody. i can talk to a lot of teachers most of the time, how could all the teachers be nice when they get disrespected everyday for just doing their job?? that doesn't add up, if you don't talk to a teacher or have a relationship w/ the teacher why would they just randomly speak to you when you have something going on. the students say that they don't feel safe because of the bullying, its middle school not everybody knows how to process their emotions but they should. for the fights not getting broken up, if a student isn't jumping in to stop and recording it, what's different about a teacher?? let them do what they gotta do because they still are gonna fight it out but students are the main ones saying just go fight. don't try to make the school look bad like the teachers and admin aren't trying, you're just not noticing what they gotta do. I will say I learned things at the school, my grades aren't the best but I can say that's my fault. thank you thomas viaduct !! and for the students y'all need to learn how to take accountablity please!!
Submitted by student on April 21, 2024

Being a formal student here now, all I can say is how it's terrible. Fights are happening a lot and people are getting bullied a lot (including me) for no apparent reason. Sometimes the teachers barely do anything and they just watch the students fight. To be honest, I don't feel safe being at this school.
Submitted by student on March 02, 2024

This school is horrible they are very sexist and the majority of teachers don’t care about you and they never support you and the favorite is wild.Also they are never fair or equal and the students are horrible they are disgusting disrespectful and horrible and the environment is very toxic and wild. I can guarantee that fights happen every single day and they barely care especially the women teachers here have favorites and they never understand the type of situation your in which makes it difficult to learn as most if the teachers delay stuff and are always so behind and don’t care about your emotions and say anything without hesitation.The students are the worst of all they have no respect they are rude disrespectful have plenty of attitude and nor do they respect there pears or there adults this school is ruined I myself as a student don’t even feel safe just being around this environment there’s vandalism kids are smoking vaping and don’t care about there future or the outside world and environment that the so called “teachers” try to prepare them for. Also and they are very toxic the students will create accounts on social media and post you or someone else and they find the worst pictures just to humiliate you or humble you are make you feel worst for yourself and these people don’t care about how you feel and make fun of you all day and never will they will disrespect including the teachers thinking and saying you will never become anything in life.Also they don’t have faith in you and there teaching is horrible as a student i find it difficult to learn.Lastly i cannot wait to literally get out of this misery this school is the worst in the whole county i strongly advise you to go to an other school.
Submitted by student on February 26, 2024

This school has not supported students needs and failed to protect us. Bullying is a huge problem, i've watched over 30 kids get beat. The teachers don't exactly listen to the students when it comes to education. There's constant fear of danger here.
Submitted by student on January 18, 2024

The teachers at the school are nice but the students are bad.
Submitted by student on August 18, 2023

TL;DR This school isn't great at all, there's always fights and the food is the only good thing (sometimes...)Let me start by saying if Wilde lake didn't exist this would be the worst school in Howard County, someone once brought a whole knife to school, although when this happened I was still in elementary school, not to mention so many people are leaving the school because of how dangerous it is, actually dangerous is more a exaggeration because the "dangerous" people ar mostly posers, sometimes the food is good, other times it was so bad my friend called the company that made it (the phone number was on the packaging) I forgot to say there's a lot of fights in the school and people dance and rave because it's actually the most fun we ever have, the principal doesn't really do anything to stop them from happening, actually they kinda make it worse. Basically, this school is not for beginners, which is sad because this is a great neighborhood, it's just that the school is basically like prison for 6th graders.
Submitted by student on August 08, 2023

This school is awful. Students are yelling slurs, food is utterly repulsive, stairwell fights like everyday, vandalism in the bathrooms, and let me tell you the fights are awful, if you come here wanting to be accepted by everyone you came to the wrong school
Submitted by student on August 02, 2023

This school is kind of good but I wouldn't give it full stars. There are students that bring tasers into the school, yes I did say tasers and they fired one off at lunch one day, the teacher heard it and went up to the student but just gave the taser back to the student. There was actually another incident with a taser with that same student as well. They also have a student-made Instagram page where they post videos and images making fun of other students and not posting them with consent either. (I understand this from personal experience.) And the school has not even tried taken it down after maybe even hundreds of reports. But other then that I would say the school is okay, most teachers don't give a lot of homework but they hold you to high expectations. Personally I would say not to come here but it's up to the parents.
Submitted by parent on May 26, 2023

i am a student of tvms and this is my last year in this school i recommendes this school i am a hispanic boy and this school is so good for learning ingles can i said that this school is so good the teachers are amazing and many students are so good i recommended to tvms
Submitted by parent on October 21, 2022

As a mom I feel disappoint in this school my kids to this school and my kids are always telling that their teacher is yelling at them or another student and they say that they feel bad for the kids that eat there because the food is terrible.They never have time to be with us and the kid are not kind and there are a lot of fights
Submitted by parent on August 13, 2018

This school shouldn’t have been built or the Howard county school system needs to pick better staff instead of always building new schools.
Submitted by parent on July 16, 2018

It was very positive. We were very skeptical when we moved in to the neighbourhood, at a glance everything was not very good with this school. Minority majority, above 40% school lunch recipients etc. Looked like a typical troubled school. But it is not, it is not what is looks like. It's much better place for it's outlook. I believe it should be rated better.
Submitted by other on May 08, 2018

Amazing experience and love everything the school has done to create a welcoming, family environment!
Submitted by student on October 26, 2017

The school is really bad because they only punish students for the dumbest reasons ever
Submitted by student on September 01, 2017

Hey i WAS a student in thomas viuduct middle school and i think this school is trash the 7th grade teachers are the worst and the principal mrs.JOHN. and once she made us wait in a line bc we were to loud in the hall way and if we would smile or something in the hall way she would sent us to the principal's office like who does she think she is. I do not recommend this school for anyone.she be "trying to male this school better" but what all she is doing is making it worst. I am soo happy that i moved out of that school. But there were some nice teachers like mrs.weyforth in 7th grade. Again I DONT RECOMMEND THIS SCHOOL FOR YOUR SON OR DAUGHTER- from ivan perez morales
Submitted by parent on January 06, 2017

I have had two of my children attend this school and yes the appearance of the school is well kept.The teachers here you have your good and bad but I believe you will get that with every school unfortunately.That is why teaching for my kids does not only take place at school.This school will surely go down quick if there is not any change in the administration staff and disciplinery actions the take for bullying and fighting. They downplay a lot of what goes on in this school when it comes to those issues. The principal will kill you with kindness but really doesn't have any concern when it comes to the bullying and fighting at this school.There definitely needs to be some change at this school the kids are the ones suffering while administration does not address the issues at hand.I chose 2 stars because I take bullying very serious and this school has no clue how out of hand it can get with no discipline given out because they are too worried about there high score to take care of the problems and keeping it quiet so they remain a great school.Fix the problems and that won't be hard to achieve.
Submitted by parent on November 30, 2016

I think this a very good school because its new just 2 years since open and already have been rated 6 out of 10 for the first time by greatschools.com
Submitted by parent on November 18, 2016

Good school with teachers that care about the students.
Submitted by parent on May 20, 2016

From my son's description of the school and my first hand experience. The policies and rules need major scrutiny as to whether the benefit is for the teacher or student. Some teachers are not experienced enough to set clear directions, encourage your children to understand their assignments before leaving class. They do not care about teaching our children; just getting a pay check. My son indicated he does not understand the assignments and many of the other students; likewise they get upset because the instructions are not clear and they do not take the time to help students understand. Instead, they throw the teachers responsibility on something called "Lunch Bunch"; take away from their meal time to get something good and healthy or recreational and substitute that for understanding assignments, which they are to make sure that students receive before they leave class. The Vice President does an effective job with communication and addressing parents concerns. But the vice president and president are reluctant to be more hands on with their instructors and compliance issues. Babysitting in a class everyday is not effective. We need good effective educators who care about our children and go above an beyond to assist our children.Frustrated students equals a chaotic day, which you feel every time you walk into that school. Even the secretary interaction with the students is rude. They are nice to the parents but treat the children like animals who need puppy training. This school needs work. Beautiful grounds and pleasing front of the school. Makes people want to attend. This is why I gave it an average rating. If we can get better teachers who care then it would be awesome. Shout out to some good teachers there like Geography (McWilliams who cares). My son loves this class.