River Mountain

Our experience with Fullbright Elementary was extremely disappointing and heartbreaking. My son experienced ongoing bullying while attending the school, and I did not feel that the situation was handled in a way that adequately protected or supported him. In addition, the demeanor of some teachers toward students left my son feeling discouraged and unsupported rather than valued and encouraged.The impact on his mental and emotional well-being was significant. The experiences he endured at this school ultimately led to him needing therapy for an extended period of time to regain confidence and work through the effects of what happened.What makes this even more difficult is that we are now attempting to enroll him in a new school, and information provided by Fullbright Elementary has created additional obstacles. The academic and behavioral concerns reflected in that report cannot be viewed in isolation from what my son experienced while attending this school. In my opinion, many of those struggles were direct consequences of the bullying and lack of support he faced.It is incredibly frustrating to see my son's future opportunities affected by circumstances that were not of his own making. Every child deserves a safe, supportive learning environment and a fair chance to move forward. Unfortunately, that was not our experience with Fullbright Elementary, and I hope the school takes meaningful steps to improve how it handles bullying, student well-being, and communication with other schools.

USE CAUTION!! The administration is unstable and changes frequently putting the children in a precarious situation. The board overseeing the school practices "marshmallow leadership" and is run exclusively by parents who never focus on long term strategic matters. Members prefer to scapegoat, let gossip prevail and meet in secret to vote out other members who they don't like. It looks really nice at first glance but if you stay there long enough these ugly issues will surface.....be careful!!

My daughter has been at AR Baptist since K-4 and is graduating this year. I wouldn't want her to be anywhere else. I have friends that have children at some of the other private schools in town and all of them have some of the problems mentioned here. We have had a few teachers we haven't clicked with and a few issues I haven't agreed with, but overall, it is an awesome school. Teachers and parents are very involved. The class sizes are small. It is a challenging curriculum, especially high school. There are sports for every interest and band, but they put very little money and support towards drama. I feel the teachers and administration really care about these kids. If your child just wants to coast through high school and put out any effort, you might not want to invest the money to have tjem here. Our ACT, etc scores are great and every year we beat out a whole host of private schools in the area in a competition where the kids take.an actual final exam in college courses.

If you don’t have a cookie cutter perfect child then don’t send your kid here. The teachers won’t use any resources you provide them to help an overstimulated kid but will instead just send them to the nap room or office and then call you to pick them up. No comforting being done to your child. Also the lady at the desk on the Hinson location NEVER smiles. Is that who is suppose to be helping my kid while he’s upset? When the director finally reached out to me she immediately threatened to expel my kid because of his tantrums. Didn’t try to problem solve or ask how they could help. It’s strange because he wasn’t having tantrums before the school and his tantrums got significantly better after we left the school. Also I found his teachers Facebook posts about how she dislikes being touched by her kids and how she “wants to push them down”.. cool. Also the work was the same repetitive worksheets over and over. My kid was bored. Lazy teaching. Montessori in name only.

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We have had a wonderful experience at CAC. The teachers and the staff are very supportive and love our children! The community we have at this school is such a blessing to our family and not only is my child getting a wonderful education, but he is also learning Christian values as well.