Western Rockingham Middle

Dillard Elementary is a great school. The staff are wonderful and very caring. Everyone is like one big happy family!!

This school is a joke. They don't offer half of the learning techniques they so proudly brag about. There are no Academically Gifted/Advanced classes other than a simple Accelerated reading group. Unless your child learns on his/her own, that "group" is useless. They sit at a computer and take reading tests. That's it! The grading technique is so outrageously and pathetically fixed to make the school look better. The student (any student) is given average/low scores at the beginning of the year and intermediate scores at the end. When your child brings home a progress report/report card with ok/average grades, yet excels on every test, in every class on a level 3 grades HIGHER than the one they are in, makes absolutely NO sense. The people at this school do not care about the students, just the numbers on the many, MANY given monthly tests. The good teachers, the ones who really do care and offer support seem to be pushed to the side in favor of whoever is in the small-town-family/friend clique this school seems to have going on. Which brings me to the point of REAL issues. Let's hope you never have an actual problem at this school for they will either lie to your face, or sweep your issues under the rug with no real intentions of a beneficial resolution, no matter how dire the situation is. Their only concern is tainting the false reputation they have fed this small town-country-community they reside in. With only one other elementary school with even worse problems, of course New Vision looks like a shining star. There are no decent clubs and absolutely no sports teams. Also, ALL of the students are on free lunch/breakfast due to the fact that the Rockingham County's School Board is full of complete morons that couldn't run a lemonade stand efficiently, much less a county's education system. (Look into that, ha! ) SUMMARY: Find a charter school, or any other school (not Dillard) if you want your child to have a good, honest, and safe education. Sincerely -an honest parent