Independence School District

TLDR:my 11 year old sister has been abused physically and mentally at this district, and has been suspended from September 2024 to November 2025 with no work being sent by the district. They won’t even take my calls about it.

If I could give this district 0 stars I would. To start off my sister went to mill creek and was physically abused by the recovery teacher. The same year she was moved to independence academy, she did amazing there for the first couple of years. Then they decided to mainstream (let my sister go back and forth between ia and mill creek) until she went full mainstream (stayed at mill creek) she once again got verbally abused by the new librarian and decided on her own to go back to ia. Fast forward to this year my sister is at ia, she wore a crop top like every girl in her grade is wearing now and got told by a male staff member to cover up (my sister has been diagnosed with adhd as well as ptsd) she asked the staff member why he was making such a big deal about it. The male staff member then decided to take my sister to the so called office and proceeded to take away her zip up hoodie that my sister was trying to put on! She got mad of course and started yelling at the staff member to give her back her hoodie. A teacher restrained my sister ( it says to not restrain her in her iep) my sister retaliated of course because physical touch by an adult triggers a ptsd flight or fight response she hit a staff member due to her response, my sister has been suspended since September of 2024 apparently because she retaliated against a staff member. Today was supposed to be the day she was off of suspension via court, come to find out it doesn’t matter if the court said that she can come back this district will twist their words and make it seem like they said something else. My sister won’t be welcome back until November of 2025…. Now this is where my real issue starts my sister has not been given any instruction on how to continue learning from home nor have they sent any thing to myself or our grandmother about how my sister (who is in the 6th grade) can continue her education from home! This school district is absolutely terrible never and I mean NEVER send your child here if they have mental health problems or any type of diagnosis! Your child will be abused physically and mentally by the so called staff, that don’t want to do their job!

They don’t care about the children education

0 stars if that was an option. Van horn especially is a useless cesspool. The administration, staff & majority of teachers doesn't seem capable of functioning, let alone trying to educate kids. I've had nothing but issues w that place, give them a solution to issues w my kid, been saying same thing since 1st week of school- its now last month of school year- it's completely ignored, if try to reach out then you're lucky to get a response & if u do get a response ur basically just brushed off. That place needs to be shut down since nothing about it or way it's run is salvageable at this point

If I could I would put my children in another school district. There communication sucks at these schools & to think I have 3 children in the independence schools.. it's not like it used to be when I attended the schools.

If I could give 0 stars I would.. this whole district is a joke from the hearing officers to the principals to the superintendents. They can't even return simple phone calls until parents blow up and act out of character then they want to kiss butt to try & make the district look better! So disappointing that I bought a home in this district where they do not care about our students!

It's truly sad that the Independent School District cannot meet the needs of the community. They seem to be having trouble figuring out Simple Math and how to get the children to school. My child comes from a separated home with two addresses due to this my child is not allowed to ride the school bus for 2 to 3 weeks while the Independent School District tries to figure out the school bus routine. They put the comfort of their staff before children. They serve 10000 students currently with bus rides they have 3,000 requests for second buses that they cannot seem to process. I hope that no one else has any more children because it will just overload their system and I don't know how they would function if they can't even figure out how to get the children a second bus stop.

This year for enrollment and bus passes was a train wreck, we've been in the isd for 6 years and never had issues enrolling. This yr we enrolled online as always and never got school schedule so we called and they said proof of residency didn't pass so the entire application didn't pass and they never notified us!! We would have showed up first day of school and been turned away, zero communication. Had to take off work and spent all day jumping through hoops to do what they wanted, so disorganized I am so disappointed in them. Also we had approved bus passes weeks ago and then they told us we don't and have to start that process all over again so now it's going to prevent me from getting to work on time till we get passes and is jeopardizing my job and they don't care. I will say they have great teachers for the most part and I'm pleased with the teachers my kids have had, there are a few who are not good but overall happy with the teachers, they were very caring and kind to my kids. I'm extremely disappointed in lack of communication and making everything extremely difficult for enrollment and bus passes

Am I the only divorced person with joint custody. My daughter’s middle school telling me they can not add my address until 3 weeks into school for my daughter to ride a bus to my house. I went through this mess last year for the high school. This is the dumbest thing I ever heard in my life.Why does it have to be this hard for a divorced parent. They tell me they can only have 1 address showing per child in their system. Well this needs to change. NOW

ISD is very slow and inefficient. I just graduated here, walked on stage 2 weeks ago and I still haven't received any word on my diploma. When I was coming back here for the 2nd time it took them almost 3 months to get me in here, making me miss the entirety of 2nd quarter. Some teachers here though are pretty top tier. So I will give them that.

Independence school district doesn't help children who have learning disabilities. They neglected my child's need for years, denying her testing and saying she didn't need the help when clearly she did. With no guidance I finally figured out how to go about getting her help, this year she was diagnosed and now they say, they will forward her evaluation on to the school district but can't start anything over the summer. Such a joke of school district and the amount of bullying that goes on in the schools is disturbing.

I love this district. They always got something going on.❤

Really good school district

Always friendly and helpful staff!!

I love this district. They always got something going on.❤

I clearly do not understand. How does a school district that prides itself on character traits. Hire so many discriminating bullies? My daughter who has O.I. only wants to cheer for Truman. Yet the cheer coach Ms Parrish has shunned her. The Athletic director Mr Bieser has also told lies and hid behind his desk. But, what really takes the cake is Ms. Amy Chapelle. The 504 coordinator. She stated in a 504 meeting today. " I don't care what you say or what her doctor says. she is not cheering for basketball." It was the rudest thing I have ever heard. I was beside myself. Here the 504 coordinator for the school district is discriminating. Saying these things in front of my daughter. I was so upset. All I could do was leave. Is the world so bad that the lady whom suppose to be helping my daughter openly say " I can discriminate any time I want". Well I dont believe what this woman said can be the way it is . She needs to be fired as do the cheer coach and activities director Mr. Bieser. You have all discriminated against Lacy for the last time. I will contact all the necessary gov. Agency's, lawyer, advocacy groups as well as news stations. These children have rights. The legal way will prove your wrong. Your not fit for your position.