Laurel Plan in Shire Walk by Main Street Homes
Henrico, VA 23233

Horrible help for students, teachers are extremely rude to parents and students, the food they serve is terrible, they don't care about students mental health or wellbeing and the principal doesn't stand with the students when a teacher does wrong.

HORRIBLE SCHOOL WITH HORRIBLE TEACHERS!! Bullies everywhere

I’ve had two kids at Gayton and couldn’t bring myself to put my youngest there. The first time around, the administration and faculty were excellent - dedicated, competent and responsive. Those days are gone. Now students are floundering with inadequate support and resources. Physical assaults and perpetual bullying are permitted with no communication with or response to parents. Some teachers are not at all equipped to pick up on signs that kids are having trouble. Non-verbal exceptional education students with no emotional self-control are put in general education classes of 23+ students, with no appropriate teaching aides. Lessons are solely taught to make a sufficient number of students pass the tests (PALS, iready, SOLs, etc.) and the pursuit of educating kids to learn critical thinking skills has been abandoned. Project based curricula are gone. From the very start of kindergarten and beyond, the teaching is heavily dependent on children using tablets and laptops to establish an early neurological dependence on technology. The PTA is a social club for out of touch, status facade driven moms who are mostly busy with petty power trips and “fundraising” to benefit their local businesses with increased advertising and access to customers in the community. Teachers are burnt out and express feeling unsupported and unheard by the administration. Many of them have the potential to be wonderful if they were given the right circumstances.Administration is wholly unstable, with the principal leaving abruptly before the end of the first semester. My heart goes out to the faculty members who love their students. They and the students deserve better. If you have any choice, pick a different school, public or private or homeschool.