1420 Academy St
Kalamazoo, MI 49006

My two kids attend Northglade Montessori Magnet School and it is amazing. Northglade is revolutionary because it offers a Montessori quality education to an at-risk population.The Montessori theory is holistic: It addresses the student's entire person, rather than just the academic aspect. Northglade students are not just studying traditional subject areas, but they are also learning responsibility, manners, grace, and courtesy. Northglade students learn how to make proper introductions, look people in the eyes during a conversation, and set their places at the table. Northglade students learn to communicate effectively and resolve conflicts peacefully. These skills are not generally taught in traditional schools, but are invaluable tools that will benefit Northglade students as they build their lives and careers. Northglade Rocks!

Certain teachers at KCHS are very pushy about their politics. School should be about learning and growing. In order to do that topics need to be discussed and debated in a fair and mediated way. That does not happen here. This schools focus seems to be only to get kids to do better on state tests and "prepare" them for college, which, by the numbers, they fail at. It's very disheartening to talk to my child about school and learn that it has only gotten worse since I attended high school here 20 years ago. If your child is going to succeed here you as a parent will have to be more heavily involved in talking with your student about topics the school deem unimportant. Overall I would say the lack of an actual education is NOT made up for by the Kalamazoo Promise. Your child would be better served at a better school and then having to find a way to fund their own college education. If I could go back a do it over my child would not be at any KPS school.

I mean leik its okay. Teachers r gud and I learn suff.