27676 Bahamonde
Mission Viejo, CA 92692

School is extremely outdated, has ongoing issues with rodents and sewage. Curriculum is a strong point of the school, however, teachers often seem to take the easy route instead of actually helping students learn material. Have gone here for the past 4 years and administration has not been the greatest.

This school has serious problems. The administration puts up with and accepts bullying and poor behavior from the students. It is an unsafe environment. Kids hit other kids, throw stuff, and terrorize other kids. Instead of disciplining the kids doing this, the principal brings the "bad kids" back to her office and gives rewards, cookies, certificates to make them "feel better"; meanwhile, the good kids getting bullied are simply ignored and left to fend for themselves. When a kid hits another kid on the basketball court, instead of removing the bad kid, they take the ball away. It is so backwards - they don't know simple behavior psychology principles and the "counselor" they have is a total joke - she's just a body with a degree, not even licensed and has no proper clinical training with kids. Moreover, the teachers don't discipline either - the classroom is total chaos and there's very little room for learning. The teachers refuse to acknowledge this and when the good kids ask the teacher for help, she accuses them of micromanaging. The teachers don't care - they are just "on the clock" for the union. During a meeting with the principal and teacher to figure out a plan for our child to be in a safe environment, the teacher got up and left in the middle of the meeting because her "unionized time" ran out on site - "her contract doesn't pay her after 2:45pm" -- so much for a caring environment. We got ZERO feedback from the teacher throughout the year regarding our child's academic progress - we had NO clue what was going on in the classroom and how he was doing - the teacher just doesn't care - "it's just a job and a paycheck". We have consulted real behavioral psychologists and other professionals about what goes on at this school and they've never heard of such an environment in their 35 years of professional experience. This place is so bad, we have left the school and will never return.

This school is not the best. There are kids vaping in the bathroom and no one does anything about it. A kid brought a knife to school and they did nothing about it. They keep adding bogey rules instead of focusing on main problems