Rosa Parks Elementary School

I'm a student at the 6th/7th Grade Center and I can say, Grove has a very nice environment. They keep everything neat,and they are very respectful. I got the chance to read to some lovely 1st grade girls and they were sooo nice and polite! I came from Brairglen and never went to Grove, and I was very shocked at the differences. But, I do have friends who went to Grove and all I've heard are good things.

We’ve been at Arrowhead 4 years and love it!

Today was my son’s first day of school. We left the house with an hour to spare and we were still late due to the complete lack of organization. I had no idea where my son was supposed to go and when we were leaving we accidentally went out the wrong door (we just moved here from Missouri) and were unfamiliar with the layout of the school. An administrator shouted at us and said “It’s time for parents to leave.” That was completely unprofessional behavior. I called and told the front desk but she didn’t seem to care. Perhaps it was her? I don’t recommend you hang your hat on first impressions.

2 out of 10. would've been 1 out of 10 if ms. mcclennan wasn't a teacher there.

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.