Griffith Elementary

Bolton is the local school for the Ardmore/Hawthorne community which is primarily comprised of middle-class homes with college educated parents. However, 99% of students come from low-income families—it’s right here on great schools. That is because Ardmore families do not send their children to Bolton. There are six families on my block with young elementary kids and now that I have withdrawn my child...zero attend Bolton. It's private school or home school. Bolton buses children in from across the city for diversity in a huge gerrymandered school zone that doesn’t serve anyone properly.The culture is not conducive to learning and is focused on discipline, procedure, and lots of worksheets. Our daughter was here less that 4 months and we had two incidents of her having to defend herself from pushing and touching her clothes by little boys. We also had to opt-out of homework because our kindergartener was given assignments to complete over the course of a month. You get to choose the assignments, but kindergarteners should NOT have homework.The school looks like the just one I attended for elementary 30 years ago, it’s very old and run down except for large tv’s in every classroom. It did always appear clean though. They use an app called Classdojo to communicate with you, but you have to send written letters to them about everything even with phone calls and app messages. They tell you not to send your child with any sickness whatsoever, yet badger you about an absence. There is no accountability, everything is blamed on their "Systems" and "Procedures."You’re treated as if you should be grateful, you as a parent ,are allowed a modicum of inclusion in your child’s education. We’re completely done with public school and WSFCS in general halfway through Kindergarten due our experience here.If you parent intentionally, please consider other options before sending your child here.

This has been the worst experience that I have ever experienced with my children at a school. They are lacking in educational resources and they try the best they can but it is run down and in a bad area and the kids are bad. Foul lanuage is allowed and students can play offensive rap music at lunch which is distracting and these kids make sexual references and nothing is being done about it. I am tired of my kids coming home with stories of teachers not addressing the excessive offensive and foul language that is allowed by these students, it is super counterproductive to my children's learning. I am getting out of here ASAP

LACK OF COMMUNICATION. I was told my child had a performance at the fairgrounds 3 days in advance. This had to be something that was planned for WEEKS

AWFUL, AWFUL. Lots of empty promised being dished out here.