If you did not enter Student Leadership Academy with pre-diagnosed psychological issues, you…read morecertainly left with them. The school does not uphold their values they promote so proudly---especially the students. The majority of the student body are persecutors and have no concept of inclusitivioty or even basic respect. The faculty is no better. Although there are a handful of benevolent educators who genuinely love to teach kids, the majority are biased and pernicious towards student's mental health. The school's infrastructure and education itself is mediocre, but it most likely could be better. The true issue at SLA is their methodology for handling the bullying and gossip that goes on there---which is essentially deliberate ignorance. So many poor kids, including myself, were bullied while attending SLA. I have several chronic mental and physical illnesses, which impact my day to day life. There was little to no support.

Hey, my 6th grader soon to be 7th is getting bullied by their teachers. Coach Wideline, Coch Lanham…read moreand Mr Duff a substitut. I will not take this disrespect nor should my kid.This behavior is unacceptable, my child has specified many times that their name is their na is *blank* but they completely change it to something compelet different. After they clarified to their teachers their name wasn't that name, the teachers reprimanded them. Also, the substitute was pronouncing my kid"s last name on probably on purpose and it made them feel embarrassed. The difficulty to do something so simple is beyond me.

So now that my 3 children are successfully enrolled elsewhere after lasting 90 days into the school…read moreyear, please allow me this platform to be completely honest! Their systems are all broken. Their bus system started out fantastic and 1 week into the year they lost our driver. Who was replaced two weeks later. After about 2 more weeks we lost our route for the rest of the year. So a 20 minute ride turned into 45 each way. Unbelievably inconvenient and shows an inability to problem solve on the administration front. The bully system, also severely broken. I probably should have led with that however, im not sure any school is fully free from this. But after reporting 3 incidents and being told it will be dealt with we finally had enough and pulled all 3 kids from their clutches. Not only was my daughter being physically assaulted on a daily basis but even the teachers were diminishing their spirits and im not sure its ok to make kids eat lunch in silence every single day. Not allowed to speak during what should be a free period To top it off once we asked for our transfer paperwork they dropped the case and said its no longer relevant because we are switching schools. So the bullies face zero consequences and will move onto their next victim. Unfathomable. Disgusting and ludicrous! IEP system. Lets start by saying they approved 2/3 for my kids. Now let's get to the nitty gritty. The head district iep lady literally commented to my wife in an incredibly sarcastic manner that she should know all about iep's because one of our kids has one, than proceeded to laugh indignantly. Disgusting behavior which no one in the room, and in said room are top school officials, said a damn thing. Pathetic really. Our kids need extra assistance so instead of providing that in an inviting fashion they chose to make fun of us! Shame on all of you. Truth is, its a blessing in disguise because after returning home from their first day of school my kids are over joyed to be in a loving cradling environment! Keep your kids away from this shit hole! FACTS!!!!!!

I would give this school a 0 if I could…read more I was a student in the Sarasota campus (from 3rd to 5th) and it was the worst school I'd been to. The teachers were rude, the students worse, and they did nothing to help students with learning disabilities except take us to another room for FSAs. My 3rd grade teacher (we'll call her W) was the worst teacher I had there. She would yell at me for no reason since I was just slightly louder than the other kids and had ADHD and undiagnosed Autism. W would grab my wrist hard enough to leave marks and drag me to the principal's office. When I would hold onto the railings to try and stop her, she would tell me I was "only hurting myself". When I jammed my wrist bone into my arm bone after falling off the green jungle gym and couldn't do my work since I'd hurt my right hand (i'm right handed if that wasn't obvious) W would tell me to stop faking and "get back to work". My other teachers weren't as horrible but they did still yell at me and punish me for just being kind of loud. The kids however were worse. In 5th grade I thought I'd made some good friends but I noticed they were getting distant. One day, I'd gone outside to work and they were also outside just around the corner. I ended up overhearing them talking shit about me. I didn't trust them much after that. Then there was Hilda and Olivia. Hilda and Olivia bullied me relentlessly. They made me cry often. The same went for Iz and Hannah. Iz was nearly as mean as them but Hannah was nice and never liked being mean. Then back in I believe 4th grade, someone wrote "[Deadname] sucks" on a whiteboard. The bus driver at the time (miss patty lee) was horrible. She would yell and scream and tell us to shut up. Everyone hated being on her bus. The only good thing about this school was Mr.Mike (one of the other bus drivers). He would give kids candy on fridays if we were quiet during the week. Also they took us out to the forest after FSAs and just take us to get grape fruit from the grape fruit tree like it was normal.

I am a personal student that went to this school and I am here to say that you should not allow…read moreyour children to go to this school. The social life in the school is so bad it's insane. I got bullied out of this school I couldn't take it anymore since the day I stepped into the school I've always got bullied in the school every single the time I try to speak to a teacher or one of the principles that are there they never helped. They said they would talk to them and it never helped and as soon as I said something to stand my ground to one of my bullies, I was the one in trouble because either my tone was bad or because of cursing, when these people would push me around say really hurtful slurs but I was still the problem and now for the teachers that I always had issues with Mr. Gilbert I was your student not one of your Frenemies that you can just bully ms.spellman don't be mad because the people around me were helping me do my work because you couldn't sorry I didn't feel like raising my hand in the air for five minutes straight waiting for you to come help me and you never came. You just ignored me and you would continuously yell at me for getting up to drink my water now ms. Odenbach I don't like that you always yelled at me in class and picked fights with me. Why are you yelling at me? You are a grown woman I am a child. You are not my parent so it is not your place to yell at me and learn how to teach the class and stop flirting with your students you made people feel very uncomfortable being in your class and you consistently pushed me to do my work when I was in the middle of class having a breakdown.

Do not repeat do not send your child to LA Ainger middle school. My grandson was assaulted by a…read morestudent on February 28, 2025. The resulting blow to his head on concrete, necessitated him being airlifted to the All Children's Trauma Center in Saint Petersburg. Assailant received a three day weekend. Our attempts to learn more about the assault, the witnesses, the circumstances, was met with a ridiculous chant, "HIPAA, HIPAA, HIPAA." Clearly these poorly educated clowns have no idea what HIPAA even stands for. The only person medically affected in the incident was my grandson. We know all about the trauma center and his subsequent treatment. In November 2023, there was a similar assault on a child who also had to be airlifted from LA Ainger Middle School. My granddaughter and her friends refer to it as an annual event. Do not send your children to this school. Staff does not care, and are very concerned with protecting themselves--At the cost of your child. Unacceptable.