Del Mar Elementary School

Everything seemed to be going well with my child at Del Mar until COVID came along and exposed the problems. Firstly, the school is run by the teachers' union. The school district bowed down to all the anti-student and anti-parent policies during COVID like shutting down all in person classes for over a year. Secondly, the administration was either terrified of or unwilling to confront teachers there with unorthodox or rogue teaching and class manament methods, like telling little kids to turn to classmates to resolve conflicts or telling parents to call kids from like the 3rd grade to troubleshoot computer based learning technical problems during their COVID shutdown. As for bullying, my child experienced plenty of it there and when this was brought up to administration and the teacher it was ignored. Horrible place, mean, jaded, disinterested people there, except for a couple of good teachers who have zero say in anything there.

This school handled student learning during COVID in a very strong manner and came out even better on the other side. The classrooms use a good blend of online programming such as ST Math paired with hands on project-based learning. The school has an Innovation Lab to expose kids to software engineering and good facilities. The teachers and staff are experienced and know all of the students. They've been very involved in helping to ensure my child is learning and growing.

Great public school. Using state of the art technology in the classrooms paired with enrichment activities such as an Innovation Lab, 1:1 student coaching, a great librarian, and many other things (Accessibility week, spirit weeks, etc.). The school has a strong new principal and strong administration team that make things run smoothly.

This school is great! Wonderful enviroment, & small class size. Perect for parents wanting one on one attention for their children.

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