St Thomas Aquinas Parish School

Glencairn school has great teachers and great people. They know everyone goes at their own pace, and that some people need a little more help. They also take safety very seriously.

My daughter is now in second grade in the Mason School District, but she still talks about her kindergarten teacher, Madison Brosky, and the negative experience she had. As a parent, I had a strong feeling at the time that something wasn’t right, but I made the mistake of not fully trusting my child.The teacher was mean to her, which is heartbreaking considering she was only five years old. This experience had a lasting emotional impact on my daughter. Because of this, I cannot recommend this school.

My daughter has attended kindergarten and first grade thus far. It's a fine school. I have come to learn that Marble is the Elementary school that most E.L. parents wish their children attended. No major complaints here, just some minor qualms with the liberal leaning policies that one would expect living in this town. Go Muskrats!

I pulled my daughter out of Donley two weeks in to the school year! I received a phone call from the automated system saying that my 6 year old was absent from school, but I put her on the bus my self that morning. I immediately called the school to make sure that it was a mistake, but found out that for the first 30 - 40 minutes of the school day her teacher did not know where she was.When I asked what happened, and if the buses were late getting to the school, her teacher told me nonchalantly that the buses were on time, and that she figured my daughter was just late because she was eating breakfast in the lunch room. The teacher proceeded to tell me that she sent my daughter back out of her kindergarten class with no adult supervision to get a tardy slip at the main office. She has two adult aids in her class, but chose to send her alone back into the hallway to find her way to the main office. When I asked her why she did not send my daughter to the office with supervision, she told me that my daughter is old enough to find her way around the school, and that kindergarten students are expected to know their way around by the second week. I later found out that my daughter was wandering the halls with an older girl, during the time that her teacher was not aware of her whereabouts. I picked her up immediately and switched her to Whitehills right away.

Teaching my child Chinese and english? Bilingual by high school? Learn Spanish in high school, my child will know the the three most spoken languages in the world.

Horrible. There are so many excellent public schools in the area. My children were ill-prepared for the rigor of the schools once leaving this school. They missed out on so much opportunity and education while at this school. I wish that I had pulled them earlier. I could not be more happy with the public schools in the area. Very grateful we found them when we did.