Wester Middle School

Went here from 6th thru 8th grade 2008-2011. I had a lot of issues here from the students and teachers. Most teachers were great but there we're a few that thrived on humiliating the students. Counselors were a joke and didn't care about the students problems. Other than that, the classes were okay.

The thing is, this school is amazing. I absolutely love it and couldn't have asked for a better learning environment for me to spend my middle school years in. I absolutely adore my teachers, and I feel the kids here are really well-rounded and treat each other pretty well even the jocks aren't too bad. Some kids cause trouble here, but all kids/teens do that, and many do it in an innocent but nevertheless mischievous way. Here's the problem. Some admin and elective teachers aren't the best. The admin here are nice, but they don't always step in when necessary, and ironically, can get too knit-picky sometimes. I feel like they just don't support and care for us well enough to be considered "sufficient". Some of the elective teachers are also oblivious, and just ignore obvious concerns or problems presented in different situations. Also, it seems like they don't understand anything outside their little world, and don't give any thought to other classes students may have. This goes for many teachers, such as CORE class teachers, who sometimes don't consider the scheduled assignments and workload given to us from other classes. This brings us to another problem... scheduling. This school has awful schedules, and many extracurricular activities have vague directions attached to them, which doesn't help at all. In fact, the broadcast team that I'm part of suffers much of this scheduling abuse. Our team doesn't get nearly enough scheduling information about different events to prepare correctly to film them. broadcast is at the bottom of the barrel in priority for the school, and always gets neglected as if an afterthought. Our emails sent always get answers long after they matter, and any requests we make are answered warily or vaguely. Back to scheduling... the events at this school sometimes don't line up, and the timings of the different assignments given to us don't always come at good times and aren't distributed throughout the year properly. This causes a lot of stress for students who have to do a lot of work on one day just so the next day would be a little easier to handle. For example, there will be days when we have absolutely no homework, and then the next day--BAM! We get 5 hours of homework to do in one day. It's really scary every day to go to school because you won't know how much homework you're going to get. The homework given at this school can be unnecessary and excessive. Like, some of the assignments we get here waste our time more than teaching us something at all. Lastly, this school doesn't have the money or doesn't budget the money correctly enough to replace much of the old equipment and technology we have here, and I find this bothering. Frisco ISD is pretty rich! So, what's preventing the money from coming where it's needed direly at this school? It seems like a conundrum to me, and I feel that it prevents us from having a better experience we could have had if only we had newer stuff. But other than these complaints, I THINK THIS SCHOOL IS AMAZING AND DESERVES MORE RECOGNITION!

I had an extremely bad experience at this school. The teachers were horrible and the bus system is the worst i've ever experienced. Although it was a long time ago hopefully things have improved

Bad staff. Police punched a kid for fighting. Teachers and kids talk about SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS. Its all a huge mess I've been waiting to get out of this hell hole of a school

Mrs king is a horrible admin that even the teachers hate so much though she was called the snake lord anyways she made me want to kill myself one of the worst admins in frisco

Well this school is kinda bad but idk anymore it nice I guess

It's a decent school, some bad sides; however I believe that the good outweighs the bad.

Nice school with talented students and teachers

This school is pretty bad.

Terrible leadership at this this school.