Sunset High School

My daughter is in Kindergarten and is being bullied and harassed by a boy in her class. I transferred to this school less than 2 months ago becuase she wanted to learn Spanish. In 2 months time she has been punched, shoved, had her hair pulled and now been CHOKED by this kid. I'm LIVID. I've met with the school principal and the teacher at the same time. I've had an hour long phone conversation with the principal. The school is absolutely enabling this kid and his bad behavior. At 5 pm today I received an email that my daughter was absent today. My daughter was in school today. This kid pulled her hair today. The principal loves to boast about the great job he's doing and how his "approach" is so successful. Not so successful when kids in your care are repeatedly getting hurt. Principal is just as responsible as the child at this point for neglecting to take action or remove the other child so he stops targeting my daughter. If you want your child to be bullied and punched, learning words like "f you", flipped off and CHOKED send your baby here. Removing my daughter from this school immediately due to safety concerns. They don't even know who's in attendance? Unreal.

What our family liked about this school: diversity in culture and ethnicity in the student body, and overall caring teachers and staff. As a parent of a SPED student, however, I absolutely had to advocate much more strongly than expected for my child's needs (much more than at other schools); and I have heard similar experiences from other parents in the community. My child's outside specialists had a conversation with various school staff at one point and told me they could discern that that members of the SPED team likely had not even read up on my child's condition. Additionally, I was less than thrilled with some of the very strong and sometimes pushy personalities of district staff and specialists that were assigned to the team. Overall I am recommending this school, as it may be an ideal school for families of typically developing children who naturally lean toward high achievement, but our experience was that it was not the best thing for our particular child.

ASA, What a Wonderful School!!! My Son has gotten a great education along with life lessons about being kind, helpful, accepting and being a good citizen in our community.

We have been involved with St Pius for a while. While the school started out great many years ago, it has not been good since we got new administration. It was a great place before. I felt it was much more co-creative and the teachers liked actually working there. The school is very cliquey and we've seen many turnovers of parents leaving. For the past few years, turnover has also been high for staff and morale seems to be very low. There are better private schools in the area with staff that cares about both the students and the parents.