Billinghurst Middle School

My son has and is a student here. The facility itself is awesome, I think in comparison to my junior high.
They have good programs, like music and art that are missing now in a lot of schools.
The staff is awesome and Ms. Kenrick is amazing, along with counselor Heidi Frost. This faculty works very hard to make a team set up for your children and work with you on getting your child the best education possible.

This is a letter I sent to Billinghurst middle school Reno NV this morning… you can get the gist of my opinion about Billinghurst by this letter… The teachers and admin of this school have no compassion for the kids.
Hi there…
I appreciate your willingness to set up a meeting with an admin and Tanner’s core teachers however, I think that waiting until January 21 is a bit late. What do we do meanwhile?
Meanwhile, if things continue the way they are, Tanner will learn nothing because his whole focus right now is on all the other negative things that happen on a daily basis at school.
Tanner’s social life at Billinghurst unfortunately is pretty much all negative.
He needs to be able to have a social environment however, it needs to be a positive one.
I hate to say this but what I perceived in our conversation this morning is that when I approach you with examples of things that are going on… rather than to look into the problem and see how the issue can be fixed… you diminish the problem with excuses for the teachers.
School is supposed to be a place to learn… it should not be filled with drama from the students nor the teachers.
If children are saying mean things or acting out with negative behavior than there should be a consequence to that. The non confrontational child should not have to be the one to suffer for the ill behaviors of others.
As far as the teachers… a child should be able to ask questions and to get help from his teacher without being made to feel like an idiot by being embarrassed by that teacher. Teachers are supposed to teach the children in a positive manor.
To have a substitute teacher { Mr. Pawnyee} tell the kids that if the work he assigned is not done correctly then that child will have to do push ups??? That’s a teacher using his empowerment to bully the child {in this case, Tanner} with Tanner’s class mates to follow suit and chant for him to do push ups. This is unacceptable.
Since when is choir practice more important than nutrition? Last Tuesday was the 4^th time Tanner has gone without being able to eat his lunch. Everyone is sensitive to those with peanut allergies of which I do understand however, my son suffers in this case because peanut better is the only protein he eats. So what about accommodating him?
why is it that a teacher can sit in her class and eat Doritos at 9:00 in the morning in front of the kids however, the kids {even though they are hungry too} can only eat at a certain time?
Since when does having to use the bathroom lower your GPA?
When a child suddenly has to make a bowel movement but can’t because his teachers tells him that he will receive an infraction… so he has to sit there for an hour until school lets out??? I guarantee you if that teacher had to use the bathroom she would not have stood there for an hour holding it. These are simple living functions, functions that we do to survive as people… eating and using the bathroom that for some reason are unable to be met at this school.