7119 Brewster, MO 77459

I used to go to the school and was there for 3 years. I moved in 3rd grade and my experience that was year was fabulous. The teachers were nice, enthusiastic, and passionate. They knew what they were doing. They had much action going on. I thought it was one of my favorite years of my life. The teachers were consistent in everything, and they knew how to teach fast and efficiently. That year taught me how to focus and how to come up with outside-the-box ideas. I excelled in everything because of how good the teaching was. The next year I was there (4th grade), things went downhill. The teachers were boring, clearly stricter, and had less passion. I am not trying to say that as a way to discredit and offend the teachers, but it was a noticeable decline in my opinion. Despite most of the teachers having low energy teaching, other teachers kept the same enthusiasm as the teachers I had in 3rd grade. Thus, my 4th grade year was more mixed. My 5th grade year on the other hand was very different. The beginning of the year was amazing. We had many events and enthusiastic, kind teachers. The teaching was good. However, it shifted quickly after that. During the 3rd nine weeks, everything started to pick up, including the teachers, who started to get stricter and less enthusiastic. The reason I keep bringing up enthusiasm is because I simply believe elementary-grade teachers are meant to bring much life into their lessons to make a fun lesson that makes you not zone out. The 4th nine weeks was nearly the same. Collective punishment kept happening over and over again, and even though many schools have it, the experience negatively impacted my year. I also almost forgot to mention the outclass teachers, which I think were great. I cannot say much about them, and to be fair, it is for a good reason (they were being consistently awesome). In conclusion, I think Jan Schiff Elementary School is a good school with some enthusiastic, nice teachers, and with some stricter teachers.