St Charles Borromeo Elementary School

This was a great school and thought your opinion (as a parent) was important when it came to your child’s academic future but our opinion does not matter to the principal, Mr. March, who cares less. Because he has the authority, he refuses to take in consideration your child’s personal needs. He refuses to meet with you(parent) even upon requesting an appointment with him. Our children have delt with substitutes since last year (pre-k), at least 6 substitutes, which affects our children academic progress. This year (k) they are dealing with the same thing, 30 kids for I substitute and an EA. They have to stop lecturing to deal with other children not following instructions. These girls and us(parents) have had a lot of patience. Our 2 kindergartens have been through all this together and have been supporting each other since nice Pre-K, now they are separated and the principal refuses to even meet with us (parents) to discuss this situation. He is not profesional and has attitude and also intimidates you and of course because “ he made his decision, he is going to move forward” his own words. Even APS says he has the last word on this. I am now looking for a different school for our children. We are not comfortable with our children being around this principal who shows no compassion and consideration for our children needs. With a new principal this school would be a better place to enroll your children.

If you want to send your child to a school where they will get bullied, then this is the school for you. The principal ignores your phone calls and emails and reroutes them to the dean (who seemed to be the only person that actually cared about my student at the school). The teachers get away with making inappropriate comments towards students, including telling the entire class about my daughters past prior to being adopted(without her permission), and the school claims to be "non punitive" in order to excuse the bully's behavior. She was made fun of for her appearance, for having two moms, for having short hair, for being adopted the list goes on and on. There is zero accountability, and my student was choked by another student in which I was not notified of. She came home crying almost every day and was told that people were mean because it was her fault. We moved here from another state where she was excelling in school, her grades dropped severely the first grading period here, she was told she was ahead of all the other children, but her grades did not reflect that. When we asked for homework to work on the subjects she was struggling with the teacher told my student "That homework was stupid and that her mom's wouldn't be able to teacher her the work anyways" If I could give this school -5 stars I would.

We switched our child out of this school after a terrible 1'st grade experience. Our opinion of the principle, Ms. Weihe, is that she lacked integrity, and we felt she tried to bypass accountability for our child's welfare while gaslighting us. Our child's teacher was teaching a classroom of over 20 students without a secondary teacher helping them. There were multiple children in the classroom with clear emotional issues, and there were frequent reports of children fighting with each-other. Her methods of dealing with children were consistently punitive. Almost every week it seemed like something went wrong in our child's classroom or at recess. One day a child cracked his head open and was bleeding from his head. Ambulances came to the school to take the child to the hospital. Not a word about it was said. The teacher only expressed that the children had "a tough week" and she wanted to give them a pizza party at the end of the week. Our child started hating school and even expressed suicidal language early on in the school year. We wanted to get our child moved to a different classroom but were told it was not going to happen despite all of these things. The classroom reached temperatures of 90+ degrees early in the school year. This year we have found a much better school, but we are still dealing with the fallout of the damage caused by last year. There are so many things that were wrong about MVES that I couldn't possibly put them all here. There are 'some' great teachers at the school, but unfortunately that doesn't make the school better as a whole.

Run....don't walk...to another school. We had the unfortunately experience of being forced to attend the school secondary to a court order. Most teachers were parents of other kids at the school. The lack of training was evident. This is radical right wing evangelical Christian church which is attended by the president of the national right to life group. If you're of the ilk, you'll get on fine with the sub par teaching and Christian nationalist philosophy. But if your are not, run (don't walk) somewhere else