Walter Kidder Elementary School

We love Chapman and will continue to live in this neighborhood. The school offers many programs for students and the PTA arranges lots of special events.

I began my journey at Ambrose when I was in kindergarten (age 5). From the beginning, it was terrible. The teachers aid who helped out in my room automatically disliked me because my older sister and her daughter were not friends. I was constantly shamed and yelled at for no reason other than being my sisters sibling. Right off the bat this proves something is wrong with this school. The full time teacher slowly grew to dislike me and eventually yelled at me in front of my whole class and said that my problems didn’t matter. Keep in mind I was five. FIVE! My first grade teacher was phenomenal but she ended up leaving just two years later. My next few years there were mediocre, but tolerable. In fifth grade I began hanging out with the wrong crowd (yes there is a ‘wrong crowd’ in this so called holy school) and I was getting bullied and abused everyday. Although we constantly informed the teachers and principal what was going on, nothing was done about it. Sixth grade came along and the problems seemed to just get worse. Towards the end of the year we had a grade talk about the bullying. All the bullies claimed they were being bullied as well. And you know how the principal and teachers handled it? My grade got pizza because they felt bad we were being bullied. Way to handle a situation Ambrose! Thank the lord I finally got out of that school for seventh and eighth grade and I could not be happier where I am now. All in all, this school will not take you seriously, learning disabilities are not taken seriously and teachers DO NOT CARE. I suggest going somewhere else where you can really be part of a family.