Eglin

I’ve been disappointed with how Eglin Elementary administration handles parent concerns. One particular kindergarten teacher uses exclusion and embarrassment as a form of punishment, which is deeply concerning. When I brought this to the administration’s attention, I received a generic one-sentence email stating the issue would be “addressed with staff.” There was no meaningful follow-up or accountability, leaving me with little confidence that the issue was taken seriously.

We were highly disappointed with this school. To start, this school has no PTO and no parent-teacher conferences!! What kind of school has no way for parental involvement built into it?! My son was high performing and instead of building in ways for him to keep being challenged the only solution was to stick him in front of the iPad half the day. We need to do better than this. Scaffold education and provide higher performing students with activities OFF of the ipads. Other countless complaints were television during lunchtime, candy being given out almost every day, an extensive reward/discipline system that makes the children completely desire extrinsic motivators, crossing guards looking at their phones during dismissal, I could go on. Of course, there are really caring adults and educators in the school, but something is just not right and not working.