Brookside Intermediate School

This is one of the most terrible places you can send a child that requires special treatment...the students get a 1/2 hour lunch break, and the teachers get an hour....so it was too hard for them to figure out a way to keep my child indoors during recess....simply because they were not going to be able to sacrifice a 1/2 hour of thier lunch period for my sons health...my son has cold weather asthma, I had 3 doctor's notes faxed to them and each time they gave me another reason why that note was not to thier standards. My son went to a different school for k-1 and we didn't have any problems keeping him inside for recess when it was lower than 60 degrees...but for some reason this school did?? Is your lunch hour more important to you than my sons health, and if it is why are you a teacher, a principal or a school nurse?? Why did you choose a proffession that demands responsibility for children? I am simply discusted with this school, I think it's discaceful that they have a four star rating....and I have no doubts as to what my child potential is, however I have serious doubts about this schools potential!!

That is so strange. My child goes to Larkmoor and had told me a few times about not being able to eat lunch and missing recess because of missing school because she was sick. And I watched with my own eye's a teaching grabbing a child my their clothing and yelling at them for trying to jog past a group of kid's who was making fun of him. It broke my heart when my daughter told me that the she was getting picked on and the teacher calling her a baby all on the same day. Needless to say as a parent there was nothing that could be done. No one in the office cares and the secretary is very mean. We do plan on switching schools next year because of that. It's a shame I am not the only one who is going through this.

This school allowed someone who was not allowed to take my daughter out of school before the day was done. I am never taking her to this institution

My children have been attending Avon Montessori for several years now. I have a child in elementary and one in kindergarten curently. I can't say enough about this wonderful community. I have always felt that the staff at the school have shown my children love and seen their own unique strengths and needs. My children have very unique opportunity to practice independence and practical life skills that aren't seen in other school environments. My children cook, bake, learned knitted and crocheting, plan their own field trips and have lots of access to the outdoors in additional to knowing the core parts of education (math, literacy, etc). My children have been given the opportunity to develop their own interests and follow these interests to learn at their own pace. My son particularly has been able to go above gradel level in math as it is his strength but follow his own pace in other areas. The Montessori model is a truly unique model of education and I feel gives each child the chance to direct their own learning and take accountability for their work. Note on the Special Education rating- In terms of special education as it is a smaller school there may not be the full accomodations that a public school can offer especially for students with disabilities. However, I feel the teachers do a wonderful job of allowing each child to follow their own pace of learning and that is something that makes it stand out from traditional education.