China Grove Elementary School

Principal Sechler leaves a lot to be desired. She makes a ton of good promises to improve things for our children and never follows through on what she tells you. If you disagree with her way of thinking, be ready for her attitude! Lacks skills needed to improve cges for our children's best interest. As long as she makes herself look good, it doesn't matter to her how many kids fall through the cracks, get bullied repeatedly, or singled out by herself or certain teachers. MOST of the teachers at this school truly care and are wonderful with our kids, I wish cges could get a principal that follows suit. If only RSSS Superintendent could see the way Mrs Sechler acts towards our kids when her 'bosses' aren't around....I think they would be shocked.

We have had a very pleasant experience here and my daughter will be graduating from 5th grade this year. The teachers are awesome!

We have one son who graduated CGE and is now attending middle school with another son and daughter still enrolled at CGE. All have had wonderful teachers and are learning skills to become great young adults one day. It is a joy to watch them grow and thrive.

Not a review, just a response. Even though I think the situation was not handled properly, the principal at the new school is absolutely incorrect. By law, in order to be promoted to the next grade, a child has to be in attendance for 160 days in elementary school (equal to excess of 10 days absence). This is a very sensitive situation and I think it should have been handled with care. In defense of the principal, she has laws and guidelines to follow. She sent you in the right direction, you filed an appeal and it was approved.

I currently have two children attending this school. We had a horrible time my oldest daughters Kindergarden year. I gave birth to our fourth daughter, who was very sick and stayed in PICU from the time of her birth until she died 15 days later. During that time, my child did not attend school because I stayed at the hospital with my sick baby, never leaving her, while my other children stayed with family out of town. I had no way to get my daughter to and from school, with her being so far away, and me not being able to leave the baby. When my child returned to school, even before her sisters funeral, the principal gave me nothing but grief. She made me do an appeal (remember, this is kindergarden) telling me that my child may be held back for missing those two weeks of school. The situation had already been explained to her. I did the appeal and my child was promoted to 1st grade, however, after that happened, I lost all respect for the principal. I switched my daughter to a different school the next year, where I learned from that principal that no matter how many days a child misses in elementary school, no elementary school in NC can lawfully hold a child back due to absenses.