Jim Thorpe Elementary School

Our daughter is having an awesome experience. She’s in 3rd grade and has gone here the whole time. I feel like they do a lot to keep families involved and the kids are learning and having fun!

By far, the worst school out there. Leadership is terrible. Staff is rude. I feel like our kid had no progress whatsoever. He never got any homework. Even the teacher in charge was aware of what a messy organization this is. Try to stay away.

It’s August 13 2025 2:30PM and as I came to pick up my kid from school and noticed they have kids outside in n the middle of the field with no hats or shade or any protection from the high heat and sun rays, it is currently 112 degrees Fahrenheit, this unacceptable, meanwhile the teachers or persons in charge have hats on while the kids are just plain exposed to the heat elements, who in their right mind would have kids out in the middle of the grass field exposed like that? Why are they allowing this to happen? Kids could dehydrate, faint, collapse in this type of heat at this time of the day

I took my kindergartener out of this school after realizing she was expected to do homework every night and it took a minimum of an hour sitting with her and teaching her to complete it. One day she was home sick and when she returned to school the following day was given a packet of homework of all the work from the day she missed and expected to return it to school after one evening or would face grade deductions. KINDERGARTEN. When I wrote a letter to the teacher explaining that this was not in the best interest of my child’s mental health and we would be completing the work in increments of time to allow for time with family and to not stress my child out so much she shuts down I was basically told “well that’s our policy so she’ll be docked points for each day it’s not returned.” The insane pressure and damage to a 5 year olds self esteem because all they care about is their academic scores was beyond inappropriate and unhealthy. I refused to keep my child in a school that had displayed zero care for her social/mental well being. Save your children from this environment. We need healthy families who spend time together and children who have well rounded life experiences. No kindergarten should be crying at the dinner table over homework. KINDERGARTEN.