MATER ACADEMY AT ST CLOUD

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• Submitted by parent on February 04, 2025
  My 2 kids attended this school from 2019 and were removed mid-year in 2024. This school does not offer a safe environment for its students. My 2 sons were students at Mater Academy St Cloud from 2019-2024. And these past 3 years were the worst due to the ongoing bullying. For a week, my son was hit by a peer with a pencil and ruler (minimized by the current assistant principal as ISLOLATED -in writing). Then on another year, was stabbed in the back with a pencil and threatened to be killed by another peer (police report filed) and the student was placed in another classroom. Unfortunately, thinking and trusting the administration, we unknowingly chose to continue to send our sons to Mater with the hope that they would be better and more vigilant of bullying situations. However, this year, my son was bullied again… by what I can only label as scavengers. They’d steal his lunch and snack EVERYDAY almost since the earlier part of school. When he started to say NO, they’d call him greedy for declining to share his food and making his day a horrible experience. They’d go into his backpack and throw his personal items in the class and even try to steal his food!! It took my son 3 months to tell me this for fear of retaliation from his peers. When the school was confronted with the situation, they took over 6 days for an investigation, even after my son provided a very detailed (date/time) run of events to help minimize the time they’d need to spend on reviewing the cameras because my son’s words and previous cases of being a victim of bullying were not enough to help him. Disgustingly, even the guidance counselor and the assistant principal ignored a note given by my son during their nonsense, unreliable investigation and DID NOTHING until I exposed the situation on social media. Then was when the investigation was completed with no corrective action against the students who bullied my son. It was acknowledged by the school that my son was, in fact, a victim of bullying- a major act of misconduct (per the email sent to me). The school offered my son the Hope Scholarship as a way to again brush things under the rug when all I was looking for was the safe and wellbeing of my kids and the students at the school. By that time, it was when I decided that my children would never be safe at Mater Academy St Cloud. I also emailed the Governing Board with all communications with the school and they never acknowledged my email! I would NEVER recommend this school! ...More Reviews

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