St. Lawrence O'toole Elementary School

SLOT has gone downhill and quick. We went from a tight knit community of faith filled teachers in 2013 to a school with 30-40 less students, new teachers that cannot teach, and a disjointed administrative. Partly due to hiring a principal that didn't know how to run an elementary school that hired h

What happened to St. Lawrence O'Toole School? It's quite sad to me, because I have lived in this neighborhood for more than fifty years and I always enjoyed having the school in our neighborhood. My husband and I used to go down for the walkathon and for different events the school offered. We used

The only reason why we stayed this year is because we love the third grade teacher! She was going to be my child's kindergarten teacher, which is why we originally chose the school, but then she left. Now she's back teaching third grade and she is awesome. She's smart, funny, caring, and on her game

The easiest way to say it: this will be my children's last year at St. Lawrence. St. Lawrence O'Toole fails in every way. The discipline is horrible. Kids don't even stop talking for morning prayer, forget about the behavior in church or during public events (pizza night, for example). Most of the t

Being honest, St. Lawrence O'Toole is not the school that it was when my child enrolled in kindergarten. He's in middle school now. I don't expect a school to stay the same for a decade - curriculum changes, principals retire, teachers leave - but I certainly didn't expect SLOT to go careening off o