The following first-hand statements represent just a small part of what Washoe County School District middle school and high school teachers and staff – at over a dozen schools –  have recently and confidentially reported to Education Crusade (educationcrusade.org)

NO Transparency

After you read this, you’ll know why the WCSD School Board has limited Public Comment and attendance at Board meetings, and has passed policies that restrict school visits and allow WCSD to fire staff members who speak out.

Attendance and Punctuality

(WCSD continues to have 30-to-50% absence rates every day.)

“In my First Period class of 30+ students, FOUR of them show up for class every morning.”

“The bell schedule means nothing. When the tardy bell rings for each period, HUNDREDS of students are still roaming and running down the halls and the administration does nothing.”

“Students constantly walk in-and-out of classrooms during every period.”

“Taking attendance is virtually impossible because many kids refuse to tell you their names.”

What Goes on INSIDE the Classrooms?

“Student misbehavior has made it impossible to teach a lesson in ANY of my classes. One of my neighboring teachers has just given up. When I looked into his classroom, all his students were playing on their phones, and he was over in the corner playing on HIS phone!”

“Even if I get all 25 students in my classroom, maybe 5 of them are listening to what I’m trying to teach them. The other 20 are ignoring me:  eating, sleeping, playing on their phones, gambling, or talking.”

“My students swear all the time in class, both at each other AND at me. I’m afraid to say anything back to them. It’s impossible to teach them!”

“When I turn around to write something on the whiteboard, the students throw things at me.”

“I’m afraid to correct the students because they scare me. After I take attendance, I just stand by the open classroom door, so I can escape safely if something happens.”

“My high school is practically all Latino and seems to be calmer than some of the others. That’s probably because the school’s large gang presence intimidates the other students.”

More Serious Student Behavior

“I had a student threaten my life when I told him to give me his phone. I sent him to the office and the Principal did nothing.”

“A student was displaying a knife in class. I sent him to the office. The principal sent him back to my class in 15 minutes. When I asked why he wasn’t punished, the principal said, “He’s actually a good kid.”

“My students were throwing desks through the air just for fun. I was afraid to try and stop them.”

“One of my students was throwing chairs through the air. When the principal got to my class he said to the student, ‘”You need to do better than this,‘ and then the principal left the room.”

“Most teachers I know have drinking problems because of the stress and fear.”

How Is WCSD’s $1M “Pouch-Your-Phone Program Working?

“The Official Phone Pouch Policy and the $1M WCSD spent on the pouches is a joke. NO ONE follows it, and kids are on their phones in every class every day.”

“Student Phone Addiction is the #1 problem in ALL our schools!”  The kids are so addicted that they are NEVER off them. They act like zombies; they can’t even look at you when they talk to you. They don’t listen, or even talk much with each other. It’s made them anti-social.  The phones MUST be taken away!”

Patriotism?

“When it’s time to say the Pledge of Allegiance every morning, I stand up and say it alone.”

“NONE of my high school Latino students stand and say the Pledge. They stay seated, talking and laughing through the entire thing. When I asked them why they won’t be respectful, they replied, “We’re Mexicans, we don’t have to.’” 

“Latino students’ refusal to say the Pledge in my school peer-pressured the White and Black students from saying it also.   Now, none of my students say it, and they don’t even stay quiet or respectful.”

Promoting Homosexuality, Mental Illness, and Medication

“My middle school promotes homosexuality and transgenderism more than any WCSD school I know of. Teachers actively recruit students for the ‘Pride Club’, and many of them display Pride flags in their classrooms.”

“My school’s counselors try to talk kids into believing they have mental problems and need to be on medication. This is wrong.”

Finding a Place to Go to the Bathroom

“Finding a place to go to the bathroom at my school is a real problem for students as well as staff. In a school with well over 1,000 students and dozens of teachers, only ONE student bathroom is unlocked, and the locked staff bathroom is right by the principal’s office. The bathrooms are locked because the administration can’t stop students from destroying them.”

Sex and Sex-Trafficking INSIDE WCSD Schools

“At all the schools I worked at, every high school and most of the middle schools had girls (and some boys) being sex-trafficked – and still do! Most staff don’t know about it. The principals don’t care, and the district administrators, school police, and Reno police don’t say or do anything about it.”

“I went into a girls’ bathroom at my high school to check it out. There were loud, sexual noises coming out of one stall, and only one pair of feet on the floor. I told whoever was there to come out, and 2 girls appeared. They admitted they’d been having sex on the toilet. Our Principal did nothing about it.”

WCSD’s Dress Code?

“WCSD’s dress code is a joke. Example: female students at my middle school walk around wearing slinky lingerie on the outside of their sweatpants and shirts, and administrators say nothing.”

Teacher Shortages Under-reported

“Far more students are not being taught by teachers than WCSD admits. Some students have 2 or 3 “study halls” in one day because there are not enough substitutes.”

“I walked by one classroom that had no teacher. The students just sat there talking and sleeping the entire class period, and the principal never knew anything about it. It’s happened before.”

“It doesn’t do any good to hire new teachers from UNR because almost all of them are completely indoctrinated in DEI. They don’t teach real academics. They just sit around acting like one of their students: brainwashing them about homosexuality, transgenderism, and progressive politics.”

Lunchtime

“I used to go to the student cafeteria, but I don’t any more. On several occasions when I walked past groups of students, they threw food at me that stained my clothes. Nothing happened to them.”

Special Education Classes
“These kids are basically learning nothing, especially in Resource Classes. They color and do almost no work. Some classes have only a handful of students, and most of them don’t show up regularly. They can stay in these classes until they’re 22.”

“At my school, Special Ed. students start a lot of the school fights. Nothing happens to them, so it encourages the other kids to behave the same way. The Principal says he’s not allowed to do anything to these students ‘because of the law.’  That’s not true.”

ESL Classes (English as a Second Language)

“They’re supposed to be learning English, but how can that happen when they teach them all in Spanish?”

Here’s Why 90% of WCSD Graduates Don’t Qualify for College

“In regular classes where students are supposed to be learning college prep academics, the favorite activity is … coloring! Sometimes the kids even refuse to do that.

“Students usually don’t want to do any work, so teachers scramble to come up with new coloring sheets like you’d give a 3 or 4-year-old. Students just color and talk all period.”

“More and More WCSD Teachers Are Giving Up Because There are NO Standards of Any Kind.”

“Middle school students have NO standards they have to pass – academically or behaviorally. No matter what students do, no one fails 8th grade, even if they can’t read or are violently out of control. Everyone goes on to high school. The kids know they can do whatever they want to do, with NO consequences.”

” The real crime is that by not making the students behave, they are not learning anything, and we are setting them up to fail for the rest of their lives.”

“It doesn’t do any good to care about this situation.

I just do what I’m told to do – and go home.”  

(A statement repeated by many teachers.)

“I just have one message for the parents and grandparents of WCSD students. Your children are NOT learning and they are NOT safe. 

Do whatever you have to do to get them OUT of the WCSD schools … before it’s too late.”

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