Mt Olive Luteran School

This is our third year at the school. My daughter enjoys attending school and has liked all of her teachers. However, we have noticed that some of the teachers appear to be extremely unhappy, which tells me that there may be issues with administration behind the scenes. We are greateful for the experiences, but am happy that we will be going on to middle school in the Fall. I do feel that the teachers truly care about the students and my daughter has never been bullied. It seems they do take that seriously.

The principal doesn't care. My child's class had an incident where half of the kids were vaping during school in class while the teacher was lecturing. When I asked to speak with the principal about my child having access to a controlled substance at school, she became hostile. She actually said, " this school is actually doing very well for the type of neighborhood it is"

I’ve only had good experiences thus far and I would recommend this school to others. The staff is kind and supportive..

my daughters first year of kinder at this school started semi-good I tried to not judge beforehand gave the teacher and staff a chance but this month I've found out a lot and seen with my own eyes and heard with my own ears I told the teacher from the getgo that it didn't matter time or day that she could tell me good or bad about my daughter which she didn't always tell me and so id ask her in person at dismissal and on the dojo app and most news would be of my daughter being bad she would take time of her day to call me or write me on dojo to let me know but then my daughter started coming home with her hair messed up or bruises and I always ask my daughter whats going on how was school today so my daughter told me that kids hit her this teacher of hers missed school allot because my daughter i knew she told me that she told the teacher and that the teacher told her it was fine how is it fine to brush of another kid bullying my child then also teacher wouldnt tell me what was done to my child i would find out through my daugther and or days after shed write me on dojo about it then my dautgher was bullied for having rainbow shoes im lgbt and these three girls in her class kinder ask my daugther why they dont have bow and shoelaces my daugther tells them because my mom bought them like that my daugther felt humilated due to them laughing at her so teacher same day that happend this she brought an issue about my daugther pointing a pencil at a girl yet she didnt tell me about what they did to my daugther also taking in mind she had already talked to my daugther about keeping her hands to her self and told me about the situation im not ok with my daugther being a bully so ive spoken to her about the matter my blood boiled when the teacher told me that shed have another talk with my daugther the following morning about keeping her hands to herself that right there got me mad because it made me feel like she was cornering her her poor excuse was oh i do it to motivate my students its like ok if you tell the whole class about keeping thier hands to themselves i can see that motivational but why again my daugther not ok brought it to the asistant principal gates and all she did was try to excuse the teacher and tell me its not that severe and on top put words in my daugthers mouth when my daugther told her she didnt want to stay that wednessday kate the principal wasnt there i spoke to kate and she seemed to be understanding until the end id give no stars

our family's overall experience with this school is not the greatest. while I understand the teachers do their best with what they have, there is nothing to keep little kids motivated to go, there are no field trips, no trick-or-treat (trunk or treat at other schools) no fun activities within the school. the ONLY event I have seen that is "fun" for the kids is the harvest festival and they do it so late in the year that it's always too cold.... everything is very un-organized and there is almost no family engagement. oh, and you only have 10 minutes of open doors to drop off your kids, and only 6 minutes to pick them up... it's very frustrating.

This year has been really tough with some thechers they have not been that helpful. But I still love this school love and respect and sport.