North Sand Mt School

29333 AL Highway 71

School District

Jackson County
Grade

PK, K-12
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:19
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by parent on November 02, 2013

You need to look no further than the review posted by an 8th grade student in February 2007 to know how poor of an education students at NSM receive. It's loaded with incorrectly spelled words, poor grammar, poor punctuation and incorrect capitalizations. When speaking to teachers and staff, it's very typical to hear them say "have went" and "I seen." I've received notes home from the teachers with "there" used instead of "their" and other glaring grammatical and spelling errors. It was interesting that when I brought it to Mr. Davis' (the principal) attention, he didn't see anything wrong with what was written by his staff. Of course, he also graduated from NSM. Many of the same teachers who taught him are still teaching there. NSM is a fine example of why Alabama is always ranked at the bottom of the US states for education.
Submitted by parent on January 30, 2012

This principal and teachers at this school don't seem to care whether or not the children receive an education, much less a quality education. There are only 3 academic classes per day. The rest of the day is basically free play. My children have never once had homework. Per the principal, it is purposefully not assigned because it's assumed homework won't be completed primarily due a lack of parental support for it. Bullying is common and ignored by the staff. There are no fresh ideas. The teachers were once students here. Based on their biographies, few have ever been anywhere outside of rural Alabama. They definitely have not received any part of their education anywhere else. They "teach" with the same seriously outdated methodology they were taught with 30-40 years ago. If you aspire for your children to grow up and work a manual labor job for low wages the rest of his life, this is the school to go to. If you'd like for your child to have an actual career someday, you'll need to find another school.
Submitted by parent on December 17, 2008

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