Clara E Westropp School

My son has been going here since PreK. Every year he has had bully issues and the school seems to not care until he is fed up with it and finally defends himself or retaliates, resulting in him being suspended and the others having no repercussions of note. The teachers rave about how smart and well behaved he is. The zero bullying policy is an absolute joke. Today, a girl in a higher grade punched him multiple times before school started. He tried getting her attention a few minutes later and now suddenly my son allegedly is punching a girl. My son isn't perfect but he knows I'd put him 6ft under figuratively for laying a finger on a female. He gets suspended so I go up and request to see video of the incident to which I get a huge run around about I have to request it when such and such is in the next day to suddenly I'll have to contact the legal department to request it. Then when the security officer who handles the incident is talking to me, she claims my son never said anything about the girl hitting him and in the same sentence admits to knowing he was hit. At this point, I just want the info to request the video and a withdrawal form that they supposedly didn't have any of until I said he is withdrawing from the district once I can make the appropriate judgement of the incident from video rather than a bunch of hearsay from the other student's friends and supposedly the only parent to witness the incident. Let's not even get started on other issues like no crossing guards at a crosswalk where a kid got hit just a few years ago from a lack of crossing guards or lack of traffic direction at drop off and pick up.

This is one of the worst schools out there. Is no wonder they went from K-8 to K-5. Very discriminatory, very false, rude staff. They claim to be so religious but they don’t act on those principles at all. They have staff, family of staff write good reviews for their benefit. We have had the worst experience at this school and took out my son immediately. They are uncaring and extremely rude and clique. Whatever you do, do not send your child here. It might start off okay but they show their true colors very early on. If they don’t like you that’s it. They make everything extremely uncomfortable. Highly do not recommend. There are better schools out there.

My son has been here since kindergarten and I could not ask for a better environment for my child. You have to take the good with the bad here, sure they do not have extra-curricular activities but safety, caring teachers, and administrators is what originally sold me...not to mention the small class size. I will say however I do worry about the curriculum but as a parent that is in education we do alot at home so I know where my child is academically. I do worry about the school shutting down due to size though.

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