Eugene School District 4J

4j is a HORRIBLE district in our experience, maybe it’s just the specific elementary school we’ve delt with. As a blended-extended family where both parents have remarried, even with a court order showcasing access with no restrictions the school does not disclose appropriate information to both sets of parents and communicates in a very discriminatory manner. The principal is very rude, very judgemental and discriminates towards non-custodial parents. Let me repeat, year after year we have been discriminated against. The teachers are a joke, huge class sizes, inability to contain and control their classrooms. Unable to address students needs, students are not taught to abide by deadlines, we consistently get notified "due dates" have been pushed back we’re talking by weeks and months! Projects don’t get finished, homework is very laxed and afterschool activities seem to take precedent over actual school work. How can we expect to raise a generation of hard workers when they aren’t being taught to follow deadlines, finish their work and don’t have consequences for not turning in work?

It depends which school you go to. In my experience, Sheldon high school was a really terrible experience for me because of the lack of support for anything that isn't being athletic and wildly extroverted. South Eugene high school, however, is an excellent school for all types of people, especially those who are sensitive/artsy/generally calm. South is very supportive in general while Sheldon is geared toward one type of student. The 4J district as a whole, I've always had a good experience with. It's mostly a bunch of wonderful teachers and a district that is always growing to fit the needs of the students and their families!

My daughters been going to 4-J all her life. I've visited with all of her teachers from K-7th, and feel like the teachers do really care about the kids. The district has budget issues, and large class sizes, but that's widespread and not isolated to just 4-J.

Morgan and Scott were very helpful today.

The government cannot run a business and aren't supposed to. The post office is still open only because they keep stealing my money and using it to keep it open. Wish I could steal from them to keep my business running. With that said, public school system are no different than the post office, so why people would expect them to be is foolish. It cost, on average, 18000 dollars per student, per year to send them to a public school. It cost, on average, 5000 a year for a child to go to private school. Public schools are bad, for one, because they have no competition and two, don't have the worry of going out of business. Private schools are better because they have competion and will close if they are bad. I really urge people, since government theft doesn't look like it's stopping any time soon, to contact and demand that all public schools be closed. If the government would give 5000 dollar vouchers to parents, per child, for a private school of the parents choice, (the lowest that is spent to send a child to public school is just under 8000 per year) I think we would see great improvement in education. If parents don't like the school because it's bad, then they won't end up spending the money there and the school will go out of business. Chances are they will want your money, so they will do what they need to improve. This saves the victims who are being robbed, on average, 13000 per student, per year. I highly doubt that's what the government really spends and the public school system is a front . As I can't see how a private school, a good one, can thrive on 5000, but at 18000 a public one is horrible, but that's a different topic. As for the trachers in 4j, I have met some great ones that I loved and a couple that had no business being around children. My above statement's, I believe would weed that out as well.

I am absolutely disgusted with this school! They lost my son four times, he is seven years old; one incident had two hours passing before anyone let me know my son was MIA and then they called me asking why he wasn't at school. I could write an article on my experience but I will not. I AM sharing this screenshot to show what happened when I reached out to the superintendent to do something about my son repeatedly being lost by the school after both the principal and the secretary told me it wasn't their responsibility to know where my son was when in their building. I'm hearing impaired and the superintendent blocked my only form of communication to him after sending me a poorly constructed email telling me he wasn't aware of an issue and hopes that it can be worked out. If that isn't a cop out of one' s job responsibilities or obligations I do not know what is. But how they can tell me they're not responsible for my son who is seven years of age, is preposterous! This is totally illegal!

I as a student at one of 4J's schools, know how bad they do. Most of the time, they try to get away with ignoring that I have an IEP, and they do it almost every year, it's just annoying, I don't deal with it but my parents do. at my school, they HIGHLY rely on technology, and say that it "Will make it easier for everyone," that's not true, typing isn't for everyone, I personally, am ok with typing, but other people might find it stupid, and tell you to talk to them later if you don't want to type. the teacher's I met in my elementary and currently middle school, are pretty alright, not all of them but most of them. I've been going through a stage of depression, and knowing that it is from stress, my gut can get through that, but the school that I go to, does NOT know what depression is, only one teacher knows one type. And the worse thing is that the students there don't even try to learn, they try to ruin it for me, and maybe some other students as well. There is almost always bullying. and god it's annoying. Most of the time the kid that does it get's in trouble, but they won't stop, they barely do anything if you ask me, level 2 and then office, that's it, level 3 and then wait, then come back and bully. So why are they continue that system, or try to make it more strict, I don't know. but that's all I got to say, I hate this district, it's actually trash, that is now in a incinerator, and got took out after a year, then destroyed with a bomb, then they tried to build with the remains of the trash. I also didn't tell you they lie about being broke, they always beg for money at my school, I don't know if that's the district not giving the school funds, or if it is them pretending to be broke. but in other words, DO NOT GO HERE. please,