Parents, DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILDREN HERE.

Parents, DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILDREN HERE.
I went to the Cottage Middle School when I first moved here in 2003. Every day, my parents had to pull me out of bed and MAKE me go to school. This school systematically discourages any displays of individualism at an age when kids are trying to find out who they are. Shirt tucked in, no music or television that is not approved, no band t-shirts. These simple things could have made my experience better and given me an outlet, but Jackie and Joe forbade it.

I could have forgiven them for that, but I will NEVER forgive them for the so-called "levels meetings" that they have each week, where defenseless children stand there helplessly as teachers and students pick at them, pointing out every last perceived character flaw. Children would leave these criticism sessions in tears, and they would often go on for thirty minutes or more. Keep in mind that these "levels meetings" are similar to tactics employed in REEDUCATION CAMPS IN NORTH KOREA.

If that is not enough to convince you, know that I came into TCS a bright, fun loving child who carried sunshine with him everywhere he went. I came out a sullen, hopeless, socially isolated individual and needed two years of home schooling to repair the damage, but the scars inflicted by this institution remain.

I write this knowing that the administrators of this page will most likely hide this post or delete it. I don't care, it needed to be said. I went to this place ten years ago, and am still socially isolated and sullen thanks to the tactics employed by this prison that masquerades as a school.

You all should be ashamed of yourselves.