Ashtabula Area City Schools

No faculty in this school gets in trouble, reprimanded, or even spoken to by any higher-ups. In fact, I have overheard faculty discussing parental complaints as if these complaints were nothing. [A parent wanted better accommodation for their child, faculty discussed the parent and child cruelly, insinuating they wanted special treatment.] All faculty I have encountered deal with children via emotional manipulation, forms of emotional abuse, and overall trying to destroy their self-worth and esteem to "get children to listen." [Calling kids names, telling them nothing good ever happens because of them, telling them expressing age appropriate emotions is wrong or makes them badly behaved.] They have absolutely no specialization in Special Needs and will not accommodate special needs children. IEPs are supposed to have plans of actions to help your child succeed, not just copied and pasted, with the wrong child's name throughout. Overall, if you want your kids not to just hate school, but to hate themselves too...send them to AACS. AACS: Where driving your kid into suicidal ideation is the goal!

I have traveled all over the United States and have personally went to many different schools. I have seen many, many different areas and I have also been employed by school districts. I know how school systems should be run, AACS is not it. My children have had the unfortunate luck to be stuck in this school system the majority of their schooling career. During this time some most grievous things have happened to my children at the hands of the school district. Be warned that when you send your children to this school, there is very rarely any action taken against teachers, aides, and school bus drivers who behave wrongly. For example, my child fell down and broke his finger during recess one year. No one contacted me and my 1st grader had to sit through the school day with a broken digit because apparent swelling and bruising was not indication enough to contact a parent. I took him to the ER immediately upon pick up and x-ray confirmed it broken. No one got in trouble for this. This is just ONE example. There are many others. This will be the last year my children are enrolled in this school system. If we cannot relocate, then children will be home schooled. Be forewarned about this school. There is no penalty for most screw ups on faculty's part.