Neil C Matheson Public School

I was a student at Neil C. Matheson and I have to be honest and say this was a horrible place to be educated. I know that teachers have a stressful job and undervalued position to hold but the majority of the teachers at this school were horrible! I remember them as angry people who would not offer help when needed, even when I asked. I was always a shy, quiet student who kept to myself a lot and it seemed like the school thought something was wrong with me when there wasn't its just who I was. Many years in the middle of the school year I was shifted to different classrooms, and different teachers, and back again. I could never get situated, and its like the teachers just didn't want to deal with me. They made me feel like I was a bad child and I wasn't by any means. I never caused any issues, or drama. Never in my years at this school was I sent to the principals office for being bad. I can recall being publicly humiliated and degraded many times by teachers in front of my classmates - such as "Why are you so stupid?" and "What is wrong with you?". You should never talk down to another person like that, child or adult. Its just wrong! This school did a fantastic job at making me feel like piece of useless, unwanted trash! The school tried to have countless meetings with my parents trying to convince them to medicate me because I was apparently "too rowdy". Anyone who knows me knows that I am the total opposite of that. To this date my parents say this was a terrible school and regret not pulling me out. After I finally got to leave this school I moved onto a better one and remember being surprised that there were teachers out there that actually cared, it was amazing! I will forever look at my years at Matheson as the worst of my life. I am very happy that this school is now shut down so no other child has to go through what I went through, because I was just one of many who was treated this way by this poorly run school.