Central Elementary School

While inclusive and warm as a general learning environment, Mt Horeb has failed to provide my child with the necessary foundational skills. As a parent I was often gas-lit- told that things were fine, and that my child was always on track- despite falling behind year after year after year. I felt that they were pushing the problems off to the next school while utterly failing at providing the services needed. This may not be the experience of all, but it certainly was ours. I can say that beginning in 2022 several parents in my childs grade alone have either left, or have decided to leave the district and/or town for similar reasons. Mt Horeb was once great- but sadly have lost our vote of confidence.

I have a kid in kindergarten who loves going to school. Wants to go to school even on weekends! I will have my 2 year old giving you the preschool here. Great teachers and lovely learning environment with good amount of extra curricular.

DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILDREN HERE!!!! My sister and I went to this school and had a horrible experience. We both have ADHD, and despite this school’s reputation as the perfect school for special needs, both of our needs were not just unprovided for, but completely neglected and shamed at times. My sister’s teacher saw her struggling with the materials, and instead of taking the time to help her understand when she expressed that she didn’t, she chose to send demeaning, passive aggressive letters home, demeaning her and saying that she didn’t pay attention in class (she did. She just didn’t understand.) Her lack of care for my sister in turn caused me to have to tutor her on a certain lesson, with her sending a letter back after I did saying that we did not do it the ‘right’ way (AKA the way she wanted it done.) She was also slapped by a boy in her class and the school neglected to tell us completely. Didn’t find out until she came home and said something. Many more experiences with this teacher, but onto my experience. I had a negative experience with both the kids and adults, with one specific child behaving weirdly around me (which I will not go into further detail on to protect my privacy, but she not only called me a slur multiple times, but did several other things that traumatized me.) The adults had zero knowledge of this, so I will not fault them for most of it, but they were infact there when the table I was at brought up a certain word and it was eventually said to me, very loudly. Either nobody heard or it was willfully ignored. Running out of space so teacher actions are in bullet points.Told me I was failing when I wasn’tThrew the homework bin at me when I said I’d turned it in and told me to look for it if I really did (it was in there, didn’t receive apology)Forced me to throw a drawing in the class infront of the class when I was doodling during classLoudly asked me if I had taken my meds when I was distracted INFRONT OF THE CLASS.Got mad at me for not doing my hw when I went out for my grandpa’s birthday, excused her favorite student when he knew he had hw but went out for ice cream for no reason Shut door in my face when coming back from recess, blamed it on me for being “too slow”More I don't want to list for my privacy.In short, DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILDREN TO THE UPPER SCHOOL. Lower school is okay if you want to. NOT THE UPPER SCHOOL.