West Riverside Elementary School

The staff communicates with parents very well. I asked for support for my kids and I was heard and had a meeting with staff to find ways to help my kids succeed.

Es una escuela muy buena y donde me siento muy bienvenida, actualmente soy voluntaria y todo el personal es muy amable. veo el cuidado que tienen de los estudiantes y el esfuerzo que hacen para motivarlos a asistir a la escuela y la ayuda adicional que reciben los estudiantes para mejorar sus grados. La recomiendo totalmente.

My daughter was virtual and although it was from a distance it felt like the teacher really cared for my student. When the school reopened after covid. It felt as if they took all of virtual learning to ramp everything up. The staff is extremely welcoming, they welcome families in with open arms. It's a wonderful school community that i'm proud to have my daughter in.

Every announcement is last minute, short days, no think together, award ceremony, back to school night etc. Be aware of that, parents need to act quick, get a day off from work or arrange family members to pick up the kids. I get the announcement of short day 6 am in the morning via email, i only have 6 hours to figure out either leave work early or if i can't, i need to call off. The school expects parents in stand by mode 24/7. Some teachers are lazy, doesn't give out homework so they don't need to grade them, less work for them. They let kids bully, for example, my kid was in a group project, they use the Google slides to do it, one of the bully blocked my kid access to the Google slides, my kid told the teacher but she didn't do anything, so I emailed the teacher to asked her message the bully 's parents. Finally the bully unblocked my kid. He was able to finish the assignment but bully still get credit of the assignment

This school has a lot of kids who bully other kids , at playground while being supervised by volunteers who do nothing of that matter to prevent the bullying from happening, turning heads and pretending to be blind at the situation I’ve seen it go on for 6 years , it’s exhausting to let teachers know and staff know what’s going on while they side-eyed the situation, when is it gonna stop? it’s not ok for my grandson to get chocked out by older kids at playground while trying to play with kids his age , I’m tired of the school not doing nothing about it , “go to the district and complain “ for what!? So nothing can be done and the bullying continues or gets worse do I have to remove my grandson from getting educated, due to safety reasons?? The teacher is well aware of the situation yet does nothing! Apologizing doesn’t fix the situation, like I said before it’s happened many times before and nothing was done enough is enough, I know there’s other parents who have dealt with this issue and nothing was done to prevent it or stop it from happening again “”STOP THE BULLYING “”

This school changed a lot in recent years. I know that the pandemic affected many schools. I heard that after schools reopened this school lost almost 40% of their student body. Before the pandemic there were a lot of community activities (after school classes, Friday events that included parents, and musical performances). Those have all stopped during the past few years (2021-2023). I understand it is hard to ramp those things back up. More concerning to me is that my child’s classroom this past year seemed pretty out of control. She would tell me stories about kids who were acting out, cursing out the principal and things like that. Again, I realize that some of these might be global problems due to schools closing and causing developmental problems for kids. But overall, it seems like a different school than it was 5 years ago.