Lowell Elementary School

I love this school this school kept me safe since I was 10 years old

My son has been accepted into the pre-school program, and thus far, this has been a terrible experience. I'm interested in the dual language program, and every time I call to inquire, I receive a different answer regarding how to get him enrolled in this program. At first, I was told that it's first-come, first-served, so the sooner I complete the registration documents, the better chance my son will have. Then I was told it's a lottery system. And now I'm being told that the dual language program coordinator will reach out to me to setup a meeting to assess my son, and that she's calling people now, but I may not hear from her until the end of August. I'm just not sure I believe anything they're telling me, and it's an unbelievably stressful and convoluted situation. This school is so poorly ranked to begin with that I almost never bothered applying at all, and now I'm really questioning what type of experience my son would have here, if this is how they treat people.

Administration never leaves the office. staff fears retaliation if they bring up problems to admin.

The current school administration provides little to no support to their staff.

High teacher retention and high expectations create an opportunity for students to meet their highest potential. They show up for the kids everyday. Casals is a hidden diamond in Chicago.

The schools is over all competent academically. But the teachers don’t really encourage students to do better, they let them stay where they are. There’s parents assisting in school activities and some parents act like they’re there to parent rather than to do a job some speak to the students or yell at them as if they were their own child, that’s not ok. I understand the post pandemic chaos and shortness in personnel but they have this security guard at the door doing several jobs that aren’t part of his responsibilities, and that gives him privileges to over step and act as a teacher/monitors/supervisor/Clerck/and transit police, giving children and parents attitudes and engaging in arguments and the assistant principal to save money on hiring three people and take some load off him will make excuses for him so if you want action you have to jump the chain of command and contact the super intendent or school board from the start. Just saying, if they allow the security guard to bully imagine how they take action against other students bullying .