Trindel Way
Columbus, OH

We've had multiple kids attend this school and have always appreciated the teachers, leadership, and support staff at this school. My kids are genuinely sad when the year ends and are actually excited about going back to see everyone once summer is almost over. This speaks volumes about the caring environment at this school. Everyone in the school obviously cares about the students.At a district level, Westerville has some work to do. Communication throughout the district is poor, district level leadership seems complacent and uninterested, any complaints I would have about the school, in my opinion, are top down issues that are the result of lazy leadership. Hawthorne succeeds in spite of district leadership.

My kid goes here and their English curriculum includes a section that is very clearly DEI Drivel. This curriculum includes assignments on the novel All American Boys, which has been heavily banned from many school curriculum for profanity, drug use, and alcoholism, and because it was thought to promote anti-police views and contain divisive topics. Additionally they had my student watch the film, The Hate U Give which supposedly depicts an incident of police brutality and one young woman's opposition to it, however the situation listed as police brutality starts with underage teens attending a party where guns are shot off, failing to follow basic driving laws, and the becoming belligerent/disobedient to a police officer. The "Brutality" occurs when the driver is instructed to place his hands against the car and instead chooses to reach through a window to pull out a hair brush which the cop mistakes for a weapon and subsequently shoots the teen. Rather than focusing on responsible behavior this curriculum chooses to highlight the last failing in a line of poor decision making by all involved. My child does not need this kind of week, victim-mentality mindset and while I condone responsible education on topics of equality I do not condone what's been taught recently. I do not recommend any school with this kind of biased education structure.

I at by racial slurs. All this school is, is a breeding ground for stereotypes.