Shearer Charter School

Sadly a very underfunded overworked school.
Lice infestations were common in the year my child attended, the office denied that it was happening. A neighbor’s child was at the office at the same day as my child and I offered to take her home as well. Once home I called the office and asked how many kids in the class had lice. I was informed by the office attendant that my child was the only one who had lice. At first I was stunned and stated she must be mistaken and asked to speak to someone else, I was passed to the nurse who stated the same thing. The same nurse who had identified lice in both children but never bothered to get my name. Apparently they were denying the problem to all parents and continued to do so throughout the school year.
During the year my child attended bullying was rampant not just to my child but to other children as well. There was also one poor girl in the class that was sexually assaulted by another student in the class multiple times and the boy who did it was allowed to remain at the school and in the class, and to the best of my knowledge is still at that school.
The school has a serious problem in that a huge population of the student body does not speak English fluently when they enter school which sets back the educational process as they cannot keep up with other students and because of the large number of kids this affects it pulls down the whole schools numbers and holds back the entire school. Even worse, once the kids become good enough at English their families at home still cannot communicate in English so PTA meetings, assemblies, parent teacher meetings, all of these things require translators. Often for the English speakers because the default language spoken is often Spanish. I quit going to PTA meetings because I was tired of waiting for someone to translate the meeting into English.