Lacey Park

I went to this school for 9 years, from K-8. In general, K-4 were fine years for me, but 5-8 were undoubtedly some of the worst years of my life. This school might value education, but let me assure you that this is not a perk. Education and involvement of students are the bare minimum for a school. As a student, it was clearer to me the lack of care from the teachers about things students said, did, and who they did and did not involve. Fortunately, my own grade was mostly friendly, but especially the higher grades bullied the ones beneath them.Teaching - as with all schools, there are always bad teachers. Unfortunately, this school is packed full of them, and oftentimes strangles out the good ones. Teachers will bully, humiliate, and generally look down on students, especially ones without many friends, and dismiss it as joking with them.Social-emotional support - This school does not care whatsoever about the mental state of your child. Their main goal is to keep the school's record as pristine as possible, and if your child is anything outside the box, they choke them out until they keep their mouth shut.Special Education - Please, if your child has any kind of mental disability, save them from this school's awful system. They do the absolute, bare-bones minimum, if anything at all, to make it any easier for your child no matter which grade they're in. I have AuDHD and was not helped whatsoever, and the teachers blatantly discriminated against and criminalised me for it.Safety - As mentioned several times(you're probably already sick of me mentioning it), the teachers themselves discriminate and punish students for minute things as an excuse for covering up anything like a student's mental or physical health. The student council is the only thing keeping the social support system running.I have nothing to say regarding family engagement, as my family chose not to engage much.I am a transgender male, and came out in the sixth grade. Before that, I was still openly a part of LGBTQ+. This school made me lose my faith by telling me that all parts of my community were wrong and satanic. I got no support from any of the staff aside from the music teacher, and my mental health declined significantly from being humiliated every day that I walked in. Today was my last day, and I wanted to write this blatantly disgusting school a sour goodbye. Believe me, there are several other catholic schools worth much more of your time than Nativity of Our Lord.