St James & John Catolic School

Terrible this school need to shut down

Worst school ever, teachers bully the children! They need to get rid of duffie, and whitehurst!

It’s been wonderful.THE SCHOOL IS CLEAN AND THE ENVIRONMENT IS HAPPY.

My experience with this school was horrible. My son (lower elementary) loved being able to go to school to learn everyday, but he hated being bullied by a child twice his size in the process. There is a lack of communication between the teachers in regard to bullying that is taking place in different classrooms. If you are having an issue with something that happened in a class other than your child's homeroom class, 9 times out of 10 the homeroom teacher doesn't know about it because the other teacher didn't mention it. The learning environment was about as average as any other public school. It can be very busy at times and a bit overwhelming for a child if they're not use to making decisions for themselves about what activities to do next. I don't understand how they claim to be a school that is based on allowing children the ability to move around freely, but then the teacher complains if your child moves around more than other children. As far as bully is concerned, the students are able to get away with bullying because the principal doesn't have a clue about what is going on. Then when an issue is brought to her attention nothing is done about the matter either way. When an issue of one child doing something to another child is brought to the attention of the teachers they hold the children accountable by talking to them about how they could have handled a situation differently and what they should do in the future instead of what was done this time. They are great with communicating with parents about events such as fundraising, changes to the calendar, and other activities. In my opinion, if you're child gets accepted into a different charter school definitely choose that one.

This school has very poor communication with parents. I put a request in October to meet with the principal and my son teacher about him being bullied and the meeting never happened. Constantly inquiring about the meeting. Never recieved a meeting with the principal. I had to call North Avenue and complain to just get a meeting with a counselor. Will not recommend this school to anyone.