Grove Elementary School

This is my child's fourth year at Moore. She's in the 3rd Grade. I cannot rave enough about this school! It's like she's getting a quality private school education with all the opportunities a well-funded, well-supported public school offers.

Oh camp director/ assistant principle at Salk is terrible and SO RUDE! We had an issue at Summer Camp and she was supposedly a music teacher before becoming admin. I am so sorry but she is not qualified at all to be an assistant principal. She needs experience in a regular classroom. I know TPS is desperate but still..... I am glad that my child goes to a Magnet school and if summer camp fills up at her site again we WILL NOT be back at this school for summer, we will just do something else. This school is run completely differently than the magnet school my child attends and this sort of admin would NEVER fly there with strong parental support!

Incredible neighborhood school. Really feels like a little community. The teachers. staff, and principal knows each and every child. The teachers are so approachable and easy to talk to about a child's needs or challenges. The care and love they show their students is second to none. I have two children there and I wouldn't choose any other school in the area over it.

I am writing this review because we had such a negative experience at MHPS. One of the Kindergarten teachers singled out my child and was incredibly mean to them. Years after going to this school, my child still has PTSD from their time with the teacher who fractured their self confidence. Yesterday, out of nowhere they mentioned that they did not understand why this teacher was nice to everyone but them. We could not get them away from this teacher fast enough but unfortunately other schools were full and my child had to wait out the rest of the school year with her. The other teachers in other grades were fantastic but this teacher was truly the cause of nightmares for my KINDERGARTNER. The teacher doted on the other children in the class but singled out mine. Crazy stuff like believing other children without doing due diligence to find out who was telling the truth, favoring certain children but super strict with mine, rewarding children that were advanced, inadvertently punishing kids that were not as fast. Putting pressure on the kids to get through the work as quickly as possible for the sake of test scores and alienating the ones that couldn’t keep up. For my child, this teacher was the leader of the mean girl pack, every bad teacher rolled into one. We were shocked and heartbroken that my child went from a loving experience in younger classes to this super strict setting just the next year. Even worse, the teacher never communicated anything that may be going on and she did not know my child (even in a small class setting,) writing in their report card for several quarters that they couldn’t tie their shoes even though they were tying them in double knots every morning. If I could give a negative star review I would. Shame on any “educator” that treats young children like this. I will never understand why the teacher did not move my child to a different classroom if she did not like them which is such a crazy thing to say about a teacher entrusted with young children. I worry about other children that this teacher may have done this to.

We were very disappointed with our experience, and I would not recommend this school to anyone. My child started new in middle school. During open house, before the school year began, the middle school/high school principal was pompous, hiding away in his office with little care for new parents/students. This unwelcoming "insider" culture understandably trickles down to teachers and especially students too. It's hard to make a friend here. Furthermore, the math teacher publicly shamed my child every day in class to the point she daily cried after school. She's currently two grade levels ahead in math in her new school yet still suffers insecurities from him. He should be fired. The English teacher was also incredibly rude. When I asked to meet during her regularly scheduled office hour (yes, hour!) so that my daughter could review an assignment with her, she dismissed us. She didn't care if my child did well or not. As I said, I would not recommend this school to anyone.

Where do I even begin.....my sons experience at Dove has been absolutely atrocious. I cant even write a google review as they have turned off reviews if that tells you anything.My son attended Dove School of Discovery for Pre-K and Kindergarten. First I will say his experience with Pre-K was amazing, he LOVED his teacher and we loved her!This review is based on his Kindergarten experience, as Pre-K was wonderful.From day 1 of Kindergarten it has been hell, the teacher was completely incompetent and have no idea how to manage a classroom or set realistic expectations. My son who is 6 was punished with recess being taken away for not sitting still. The teacher had a pizza party at one point and actively kept other students who she deemed as "BAD" out of pizza party. that's right, she had a pizza party with kindergarteners and left students out of it., My Son told me he felt so bad because he got pizza and other students didn't. the teacher yelled at the students and got 2 inches from their face on a field trip and told them to stop being annoying. The teacher completely ignored when a student in her classroom was being bullied while she sat on the bench on her phone. I know all of this because I volunteered to attend a field trip as a chaperone and witnessed all of this. My son was punched in the face and no one told me until after the fact, my son came out of the school crying.My son was not allowed to use the bathroom even after asking several times and he ended up soiling his pants, the class laughed at him and the teacher did nothing.The teacher regularly mixed up my son with other students and sent home their work, their personal information regarding their growth and even sent messages regarding another students behaviors to my families group chat mistaking our family for another. The teacher in my sons class did not have one nice thing to say about my son the entire school year, though he excelled in many areas. She only contacted us to tell us when something was wrong. Even during parent teacher conferences not once did she say a kind thing about him. My son is traumatized from his experience at Dove and we wont even be having him finish out his last week of school. We cannot wait to get him out!