Mary Blount Elementary

"I wish I didn't have to give this school a star in order to submit a review. This is the worst school for children with special needs or "disabilities", nor are they comfortable with "unique" families. My children have two moms and two dads as their father and I are divorced and remarried. All for of us enrolled our children into school, three days later the assistant principal informed my husband that it was strange for all of us to show up. We are a unique family but we all have the children's best interest at heart and do alot of things all together as one family not two. Our youngest was having emotional and behavior issues due to him having autism. When we approached the principal with the idea that some of his behavior (not all) was due to autism, which he can't control, the principal became offensive and said we would have to have a medical diagnosis before they could do anything at the school to help him. The next week we had the medical diagnosis and it was faxed to the school as well as me walking a copy into the school an handed it to them personally . A month later we are being told they have no diagnosis on file and that they had done their own testing and found him to not be autistic but instead adhd and depressed. The secretary is truly one of the rudest people I have ever met. Everytime any of us four parents walked into the office she rolled her eyes and never looked up from her computer screen once while talking to us. The last straw came on field day, mind you my youngest child broke his leg while at school and thought he had missed field day due to having surgery for the second time. Due to rain, field day was rescheduled and he had returned to school in time for field day. The day before field day his stepmom was told of the wonderful week he was having. The day of she goes to the school to enjoy field day with him. Upon entering the school she saw our child sitting at the end of the hallway, alone, crying. She went straight to him and asked what was wrong, he informed her he had lost field day. When questioning the teacher she was informed that he has lost field day because at one point throughout the day he had cried and was "acting horrible", although no example of bad behavior was given other than crying. They took field day away from an autistic child because he had cried."

"Mary Blount Elementary is a great school. The faculty and all staff members genuinely care about the students and are very parent/family friendly. I would not send my children to any other school in the Blount County School system."

"Mary Blount Elementary is a great school. The faculty and all staff members genuinely care about the students and are very parent/family friendly. I would not send my children to any other school in the Blount County School system."

"I wish I didn't have to give this school a star in order to submit a review. This is the worst school for children with special needs or "disabilities", nor are they comfortable with "unique" families. My children have two moms and two dads as their father and I are divorced and remarried. All for of us enrolled our children into school, three days later the assistant principal informed my husband that it was strange for all of us to show up. We are a unique family but we all have the children's best interest at heart and do alot of things all together as one family not two. Our youngest was having emotional and behavior issues due to him having autism. When we approached the principal with the idea that some of his behavior (not all) was due to autism, which he can't control, the principal became offensive and said we would have to have a medical diagnosis before they could do anything at the school to help him. The next week we had the medical diagnosis and it was faxed to the school as well as me walking a copy into the school an handed it to them personally . A month later we are being told they have no diagnosis on file and that they had done their own testing and found him to not be autistic but instead adhd and depressed. The secretary is truly one of the rudest people I have ever met. Everytime any of us four parents walked into the office she rolled her eyes and never looked up from her computer screen once while talking to us. The last straw came on field day, mind you my youngest child broke his leg while at school and thought he had missed field day due to having surgery for the second time. Due to rain, field day was rescheduled and he had returned to school in time for field day. The day before field day his stepmom was told of the wonderful week he was having. The day of she goes to the school to enjoy field day with him. Upon entering the school she saw our child sitting at the end of the hallway, alone, crying. She went straight to him and asked what was wrong, he informed her he had lost field day. When questioning the teacher she was informed that he has lost field day because at one point throughout the day he had cried and was "acting horrible", although no example of bad behavior was given other than crying. They took field day away from an autistic child because he had cried."