Blue Ridge Plan in Cumberland Preserve Estates by Berks Homes
Carlisle, PA 17015

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Wealthy school. Unless your child is an academic or athletic prodigy, your child will be educated in a large, impersonal college style campus. Limited communication with teachers, overwhelming class sizes. Lots of wealthy kids who cyber bully and host drug parties in mansions. If you are an average American family that has a 2 working parents, be prepared to sell your soul to the school on your free time if you want your child to have any type of opportunities. This school is the epitome of TV high schools, where the stay at home moms, or the wealthy families have the means and deeply rooted community connections to allow their child to maximize what this district provides. No one will help you or guide you unless you have an IN with the administration, the PTA, an athletic booster club, or just know the right people. Lots of racial segregation in the community. Asians stick with Asians, Caucasians stick with Caucasians and all minorities of darker color stick with them selves as well. On top of a racially divided school, within that, you have social-economical segregation where the wealthy and popular stick with each other and take all the opportunities away from the less fortunate. The school allows this to happen because the "Real housewives of CV" know what's going on all the times (even before public announcements and enrollments are available) and push their kids into these programs/extra curriculars, where as a low middle class kid doesn't have that support and ends up not being able to participate because the selections were already pre-rigged. I have 2 alumni and 2 current and I truly wish I would have chosen a smaller, socially level and educationally intimate environment for our "in the middle, average" children.

As a parent, I feel a deep responsibility to share our firsthand experience with this school to warn other families. What my son has endured here has been incredibly disheartening, and I strongly believe no child should ever have to go through what he went through. This institution operates with a horrible level of hypocrisy, preaching safety and inclusion on paper while fostering a toxic, neglected environment in reality. From a physical standpoint, the facility is completely unacceptable. The building lacks proper air conditioning, creating miserable learning conditions. During warmer months, classrooms become stifling, overcrowded boxes filled with hundreds of sweaty teenagers trying to focus while completely overheated. It is a completely counterproductive environment for education, showing a basic lack of care for the students' physical comfort and well-being. However, the physical discomfort is nothing compared to the severe emotional and social toll this school takes on its students. The social climate here is openly hostile and toxic. On a daily basis, the hallways and classrooms are filled with incredibly harsh, cruel comments. My son has routinely witnessed rampant bullying, which frequently escalates to include disgusting homophobic slurs and deeply offensive racist remarks. It is an environment where hate speech and casual cruelty are completely normalized among the student body. What makes this situation truly unforgivable is the total failure of the faculty. The teachers simply do not care. Rather than intervening, enforcing disciplinary consequences, or maintaining a safe environment, the staff actively look the other way. They offer absolutely no support, comfort, or protection to the students who are being targeted by these malicious attacks. By refusing to address the severe bullying, racism, and homophobia happening right in front of them, the educators are directly enabling this harmful behavior.T his is a fundamentally bad school that fails to meet basic standards of student safety and decency. I am sharing this review because I sincerely hope that no other family has to experience this, and I strongly urge any parent considering this school to look elsewhere.