Bailly Preparatory Academy

I use to attend this school in the early 2000s. I was held back for my behavior and education. Now that I'm grown and have children myself i see where Fieler dropped the ball. Fieler can not handle children with a disability instead they will hold your child back. The school does not have the resources for children that suffer from behavioral issues. They definitely will suspend your child with no type of plan. They do not give children IEPs or anything. I would not recommend Merrillville School District to anyone.

The principle seemed nice but only sat down or talked to her one time and that was when they said my son would be repeated. I had thought I had good communication with his teacher should would always respond to my email very quickly ! Although she did not listen . He struggled in the begging but towards the end was catching on but yet said he would be repeated then all his homework came back marked correct but answers were wrong ! Oh and my son never had bad behavior and the teacher lied infront of the principle saying my son likes to copy and she has been telling me all year and never not once did I hear not read before that very moment ! !!!They gave up the second she said she thought he was not ready fist grade. My son never did preschool and was reading at A-B level they want him at a D??? I saw what the first hand what the first graders were doing this year and I believe he would do fine. They told me there was no way around this ! My kid will get a new teacher the 2nd time around bc the one we had treated him like a baby and was very unorganized in everything I witness. Hopefully next year goes better since I will have to deal with them again a couple of years for my younger one ! Do research ob your teacher you will be shocked !

I would just like to say that the school has and is trying to bully my child who is autistic out of the school who is in kindergarten at this school in 5 months the teachers are not patient at all w children with disability they are angry the principle and staff have smiles on they face to treat you but they are not happy people with children with special needs they have suspended my son and have tried to kick my son out of the school and bank the mom who is single parent the bus drivers almost hit my car couple times and the parking lot terrible when parents leaf rout in front of the building they have negative image of a child every day something bad he gets kicked out of school every day for 5 months how can he learn anything ?? What is the reason they use the word dangerous to child who has a dist or any child they call them dangerous and can not explain why they are dangerous running around is not dangerous they also wanna try and restrain autistic children force the parent with a crisis plan to restrain a a child and they call the police ok your child at this school they use the police on kindergarten kids I'm inoperste way :) how dad terrible yeah I think we done here now I had been done w this bully adults teacher a this school needs help lots of it principle gotta go teacher need qulifatiins and patients not prepared at all

I was a student at Ambassador Academy and I enjoyed the school, and was taught a grade level ahead then what was needed. The teacher are wonderful as well as the staff. Ambassador Academy now has a 2 and 3 year old day care and from there goes up to 8th grade. I do recommend the school.

MAITO was the answer to our conundrum... a Montessori that went past kindergarten that wasn't 45 minutes away. They've been very welcoming and have worked with find the right classes for our kids. Love how engaged the community and parents are!