I went to this middle school for a total of 3 years. I absolutely hated EVERY SECOND of it... Let me start with the atmosphere of the school... DEAD. Almost all the teachers either seem so out of it they'd rather be in an actual prison, or so deeply depressed in their own lives to actually teach to their struggling students. Seriously, my old Italian teacher would literally tell my friend about her dying marriage in the middle of class. There is a large sum of teachers here who, for lack of a better term, seriously give no fucks. Their teachings methods are LAUGHABLE at best and they do literally nothing aside from patronize students and make it seem like it's entirely their fault. They treat the children here like literal inmates! Kids I know now, call the school Indian Jail, because of how POORLY we were treated. Bullying is handled SO POORLY, and that's coming from someone who was BEAT UP in this school!! And I was being watched by a gym teacher (who I can't name for legal reasons unfortunately. But I'll tell you this, she's obese and has metal in her knees) . This woman watched as I was beaten up, thrown around, kicked, yelled at and tossed onto the floor for literal months straight. At one point, I was gutted so hard my knee kicked up the sink and it SLAMMED back down on the pipe making a loud noise that echoed through the locker room. And all this woman did was scold me for being loud and not telling her what happened. I have no sympathy for her. I was literally suicidal over it and told school officials who did absolutely nothing about it. Now let's talk about the jokes that have running the Dean's office. First off, they go through Deans quicker than chain smokers finishing off cigarette packs. And the people they pick to be Deans, always have this tendency to be insanely horrible. One of the Deans (who I again can't mention) brought out a MEGAPHONE during our lunch period to dismiss us to eat... A MEGAPHONE! What are you a warden commanding your inmates? Seriously, half the time I was here it was plainly obvious that all the adults working here were just sad and trying to fulfill the fantasy of being some sort of supreme authority figure. Like, pal this is a middle school... not a correctional facility!?! Another thing that completely unnerved me when I attended, was the fact that (at least when I went) the entire school was like a time capsule back to 1975. The locker rooms were in such depraved condition that the paint from the lockers was peeling off and piled on the floor. Kids would scrape graffiti onto doors because the paint was so easy to chip off. There were water stains on more than half of the ceiling tiles. Lights would flicker and buzz, there were rumored to be rats in the basement, walls and doors had wood that was SO OLD it would give you splinters, and there was GRIME and MOLD littered across the locker room. Even though no one used the showers? How does that even happen? Pipes and electrical wires would break almost weekly. One time, a pipe burst in the commons during school... and the principal made us stay and EAT WHILE IT WAS BEING FIXED. Forget that your students could get sprayed with water or have a ceiling tile hit them. No, no, no... let's keep them at school instead of dismissing them for a pipe bursting! The food at the school is downright horrendous... I knew kids who got food poisoning from it. I knew kids who got their lunch taken from them constantly. Some kids would even STARVE because the "lunch monitors" would hold them back from getting their food because some kids were "too loud". Awesome, let's starve these growing kids and punish them for talking during their break period... really? What kind of behavior does this aim to fix or teach? Not to mention that the tables and floors were rarely cleaned well. So all the tables and seats would be sticky to the touch. I will say this one positive thing about the school... there are good teachers within it's hellish walls. But don't get me wrong here... there are TERRIBLE ones!!! I will name the good teachers I had at this school because they deserve praise: Ms. Luzietti, Mr. Parker, Mrs. Fornek and Mr. Biba. Those are the only fun and good teachers that I can remember at this school. And they didn't do the following: punish their students for having needs or questions, shame their students, or talk about their very personal issues with their students. And I can say this, I actually learned and had good memories in their classrooms. Mr. Parker actually taught me math, Ms. Luzietti actually taught me language arts, Mrs. Fornek made history fun, and Mr. Biba is just awesome no questions lol. But the rest of them are subpar are WORSE. Overall, if you live in the Addison area... please send your kids to a different middle school... Go to Woodale or Peacock. Because if this place left me with literal trauma and PTSD (I honestly wish I was joking but I'm not) your kid won't survive... trust me. Thanks for reading my essay read more

This school is bad, I've been here for 2 years and this is from a students perspective, it's horrible, if there's bullying they do nothing, the most they do is write and apology, but that barely happens, the new deans are a joke, One dean screams on a microphone at lunch telling us to be quiet, and one is completely stupid, I got in trouble, and the dean started bringing his political views into the discussion, im in the 7th grade you don't bring up your political views to a 12 year old, the school is utter stupid 81% of the school is failing math In 2012, a girl tied herself up in the bathroom and pretended to be raped and the school was on lock down for 3 hours I can't find the specific year but, a former PTA member stole 9,700 dollars from the school And there are many reviews from former teachers and parents who say the kids are treated unfairly. Most of the teachers are fine ( some are horrible but that's besides the point) it's the deans that are an utter joke They suck at there job, once you have a record of trouble at the school, they don't ask questions they get you in trouble immediately. They say they check the cameras but they don't. Last year someone used my ID number to buy themselves lunch ( I don't tell anyone my ID number btw) me and my friend went to the main office to complain and they said oh we'll check the cameras, but it's like a credit card you still have to pay it, and my friend said she knew the first like 3 digits but not the number, and the person in the main office tried arguing with me saying I'm telling people my ID, and i never paid it because I never buy school lunch On to school lunch It's horrible, it's disgusting, and i know people who it's made sick, but some kids have no choice to eat it. I once had a lunch detention and in the lunch detention room the lady didn't let me eat my lunch she said, you have to get a school lunch of the day, which is disgusting, someone else decided no and he got a cookie and a water bottle and the lady took it away and yelled at him, when I told my mom she was pissed because we should be able to eat what we want, and the rest of my lunch detentions I was able to eat my lunch but that shouldn't have happened in the first place. In conclusion this school sucks. read more

The admins are a nightmare here. They are all very young their treatment and lack of compassion shows through. I once heard the principal yell at a teacher to get out of his office!!! I sure hope he was reported, unless the teacher was scared of him. The other teachers that I have a good relationship with (I've been here for a long time) have hinted that the administration is unfair and stalks teachers and students on Facebook, twitter, vine, instagram, etc. They've made accounts to "spy" on students and then get them in trouble. A few students have been banned from the internet -- HOW do you do that? And how does a parent agree to that? I agree with the other poster -- even if there are no witnesses, they get in trouble. They go to great lengths to pull other students from their classes to see if they saw anything and make up a story after that. It's so scary that it's how they handle those problems, and very immature. I noticed a lot of teachers keep leaving the school, too, and it makes me wonder how the teachers feel about them, too, especially if I hear these hints from teachers I know. Of course they'll never make any changes because they back each other up. read more

My cousin got called stupid by one of her teachers & felt hurt & disrespected when she all did was help a student. The teacher approaches & said "Really? You're gonna ask her out of everyone in the class." read more

Indian Trail Junior High School is the worst school I have ever dealt with as a parent!!!The students are treated very unfairly (more like inmates) by their staff here,and they call your phone constantly for the smallest incidents.They all stick together when there is a problem w/ a student regardless if they were present as a witness or not.Once your child is put on their black-list, it is pretty much impossible for him/her to have a successful year because they cc (e-mail) every teacher in the school, and that puts your child on their radar as a problem child.Example,my son shook a kids' hand in the hallway followed by a hug and was told it is forbidden because it could be a sign of gang activity.Really?!Same day, another student tried to shake his hand and he told him he could'nt because of what he was told earlier and the same teacher told him he was being a rude smart a** and was given a 1 day detention.Btw,they hand detentions out like lunch here.I have been called at work for everything ranging from him talking to students in the hallway during change of class (who does'nt?) to using the bathroom for too long.When someone does my son wrong,it's swept under the rug.If he's accused of doing something,disciplined without hearing his side of the story. Worst incident was recently however. During a field trip to a movie theatre,a girl who clearly likes my son whom I have witnessed her sitting behind him w/ my daughter (friends) at a sports event trying to hug and kiss him was upset because he did'nt want to be her boyfriend and felt he embarrased her by telling her to leave him alone in front of everyone.She then proceeds to make up a story that my son tries to kiss her and her little friends were there to witness it.Fine,whatever.Just kids being kids, right?Wrong!!!The teacher on the field trip tells all the teachers at the school through through e-mail and a simple incident turns into Addison Police being called and my 13 year old son being told he could possibly be facing sexual assault charges.What?!Addison Police Department is directly across the street from the school and visits frequently so they know the teacher staff on a first name basis.Not good for my son at all.Addison Police Department I have never had a problem with,but this one officer whom I won't mention handled this incident very unprofessionally.My son was interrogated without the parents and/or an attorney present and was told he needs to confess and stop his b.s. lies in those words minus the abbreviations.He was then told he will spend his spring break at a youth facility for inmates and be registered as a sex offender.I'm FURIOUS at this point!!!I scheduled a meeting with the staff including the principal and the assistant principal who watched my son being interviewed by the cop but failed to tell me that part when I received the call about the incident.Basically,there was no proof and the kids who supposedly witnessed the incident could not be called to give their side of the story because as the principal said it's not protocol and a security risk.Hmmm,so kids can just make allegations and my child gets punished without a fair trial.Not happening!!!I'm transferring him immediately and this meeting is over!!!Btw,my lawyer has been called and I will be pursuing legal counseling.Oh,btw,this is the same school where the girl accused someone of raping her in the bathroom during school hours and no suspect was found after a hard lockdown of 4 hours.It was later believed to be hazing that went too far.We the parents, was'nt told why the school was on lockdown and on the news.Furthermore,no students were allowed to make calls and no parents were allowed to pick up their child.Scary.More details at http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Addison-School-Lockdown-172840941.html. I'm not one to pull the race card too quickly but my son is Afro-American.I can't help but wonder if this is starting to be racially motivated considering another student of the same race was kicked out a few weeks earlier.Just starting to make me wonder because other kids get away with more serious incidents. read more