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This school year has been a tough one. Art Teacher Ms. Kubel is the best! Her art lessons are wonderful. My children have been trapped in the house a lot. They look forward to Ms. Kubel's class. She is so creative! She is so kind! She really cares a lot about her students! It shows!

Pollock is an oK school, they do a lot of fun stuff but what they don't do is care about the students. When there is a problem they never listen to the students they always just throw out suspensions. (you get a suspension, you get a suspension, everybody gets a suspension). The environment there is disgusting the bathrooms always look like and smell like they haven''t been cleaned in years and on Tuesdays and Thursdays I stay after school until 5 pm for a play and I never see the janitors cleaning the walls or moping the floors.

Pollock school has a reputation of being a very good neighborhood school. Unfortunately, I have to tell the truth and voice my opinion. I have spent a lot of time as a volunteer there. They put on a good dog & pony show, but there is so much lacking once you look past the façade that they want you to see. They are extremely disorganized all of the time. I think that they could recover if they just replaced the principal. They recently lost some of their best support staff, and the office people and lunch aides that remain are career former parents that for some reason just hung around; it must be an easy pay check. I have a very low opinion of them. They are frequently very mean to the kids. They are formerly career stay at home parents and hold no professional degrees. There are several very good teachers there. Some of the teachers have privately confided in me that they too are concerned with the irrational management style of the principal. The worst condition here is that the children are not happy to be here. One can feel the air of negativity here where the old adage of “children should be seen and not heard” is still in full force. This must have long term effects on the students. It would require effort by the adults to make it happy and interesting. There is this huge cloud of suppression that hangs over the entire campus. If there are any School District administrators reading this, I would strongly encourage them to save Pollock school and place a new energetic principal in this school.