Phyl's Academy

I went to a new elementary school every year, from city to city, and this one was the best school I attended. It was the only one that played a different nation anthem every morning(very much appreciated). The students and teachers are all very humble here. And from what I remember, it wasn’t short of anything. They had all the tools to help me succeed—I didn’t speak English well.

Not safe for children due to not enough staff

I walk with my little girl to pick up two of her sisters from the school and one day. I forgot the pick up paper in the car. We parked the car half a mile away. The two ladies that does release would not release my children although they see me every day pick up my kids. I was in tears. The ladies made me walk with my little girl back to the car, which was half a mile away for the paper had no empathy for me. (Single mom w 3kids)I kept saying I messed up. I’m sorry. They said they couldn’t help me because it was part of their rule to have the paper even though they know that I’m the mom and I walk every single day. it was just a sad feeling to go through this experience with my kids. Into this area, everything is very new to us. this made us not welcome

Honestly my kids have been going here for 3 years. It’s not a great school. Seems like the principal and vice principal don’t know what’s going on. The vice principal (male) is definitely unprofessional! teachers and staff do as they may and are not reprimanded for not acting professional and not teaching on appropriate level of curriculum the kids are looked at as a money and not Children that need to learn. They allow your kids to be on YouTube throughout the day even if you ask them to not allow them because the have don’t have ways of blocking out inappropriate things. They just play songs all day and have them sing instead of actually learning. I spent a whole year off of work to get my children to learn and it’s now the beginning of the school year and I was told that they still don’t have a teacher available for my eldest.. its the 2024 to 2025 school year and I actually think i might just have to homeschool.. regardless of needing to work. Just cause I really don’t want my kids getting behind again. It’s really sad. Please steer clear especially if your children have autism.. they make it sound like they have good programs, but truly they don’t have good staff or teachers. They will keep your kids in ESE classes and not want to mainstream them because truly they make money off of it. Last year I quit my job to stay home and be able to be available to my children who are doing majority of their work class at home. I was able to teach both my kids to read and get them ahead.. in hopes that they wouldn’t get left behind. My youngest is now in dual language, even though we don’t speak Spanish in the house because he had nowhere else to go and he was “smart enough”. My oldest is still being held in ESE classes, even though he’s ready to go to general population because ” there isn’t enough teachers “ this is disappointing for both my kids and I.