Colorado Academy

We left at the end of the 2018-2019 school year. After years of an overall positive experience, things changed fast and even before the worst of it happened I had resolved myself to looking for a new school for our kids. It all started when they placed my twice exceptional child in a class with a brand new teacher - she had never taught before and knew nothing practical or legal about special education or GT kids and it showed. She was gone nearly every Friday out of town for a wedding. My daughter experienced bullying and instead of handling it the principal said of the bully “she will get hers eventually.” Not what anyone likes to hear from school leadership. There was a weird push to participate in the Leader In Me program which is a child version of a self help course used by corporate professionals. There was PTA drama where the group was split in two and made it impossible for those of us trying to help students actually do our part. I tried to stay out of it and ended up getting yanked in by one of the most conniving parents involved. When I stood up for myself, my kids and I were shunned. Which was fine, because we were already done there. A shame that a school that experienced such an incredible turnaround and Renaissance period was so short lived and ruined within only six years. I feel as though the pandemic played a small role - we saw the writing on the wall well before Covid happened. Covid merely accelerated the inevitable. Everything so many parents and teachers worked to build is basically gone. Plenty of amazing teachers quit or were pushed out between 2015 and 2020. A friend visited this week to consider the school for her child who will begin kindergarten in August and she was not impressed. The latest rumor is the school is going to be absorbed by another one due to low enrollment. All the people credited with making this school “great” left it behind and have political careers, and still pat themselves on the back for the work they did there. Well the work didn’t hold up, so that should tell you something.

Mi hijo samir de 7 años asiste al 2do grado en esta escuela el tiene el diagnóstico de Autismo cuando el ingreso a Kaiser no sabia leer ni escribir su nombre en 2 años que lleva en kaiser mi hijo sabe leer, escribir,sumar y restar entre otras cosas más. En mi experiencia como madre me siento parte d la familia Kaiser por que así me hacen sentir los maestros de mi hijo nos han apoyado tanto que no me canso de agradecer por toda la paciencia y ayuda que le brindan a mi hijo cada día y se ve reflejado en su desarrollo y aprendizaje.El aula está diseñada de acuerdo a las necesidades de cada niño facilitando asi su desempeño en las clases

After starting Sabin as a kindergartner during Covid, my son is getting ready to finish out his 5th grade year at Sabin. It will be bitter sweet for him as he has shared with me that all of the teachers he’s had at Sabin are his favorite. My daughter is wrapping up her first grade year at Sabin and I know she will have an equally successful experience there because of the teachers and staff at Sabin. Everyone who works at Sabin puts kids first. It is truly a caring and nurturing environment where they focus on the whole child.We love Sabin!!!

This school is horrible. No honor classes, only three electives, band is the only performance art (thanks to the new principal this year...) and the entire school isn't run very well. Staff gossip about children, and hold a very manipulative and fake tone to their voice. Punishment is not helpful, weird schedule that nobody likes, arguably unnecessary guidelines, heavy favoritism, some classes don't even have teachers, and nothing gets learned. I took absolutely no information from social studies this year, and am now a year behind the curriculum in math because I was in honors at a different school last year, but since this school doesn't offer any honor programs, I have a year to make up. I'm transferring out ASAP. I truly believe only a FEW teachers care about the students. Not to mention the behavior they condone? Students walk out of classes with no repercussions, some hide out in other teachers classes, and no other school I’ve been to lets kids spout vulgar language to one another. The admin rewards BAD kids for what seems like how you’re supposed to behave. It’s like they’re best friends, because explain to me WHY you’re buying food for kids who don’t deserve it? It should also be known that the school had rejected kids from attending, because they can’t tend to their needs as a special education child. This is one of the schools out of the many I’ve been to that actually does make me hate school.