James L. McGuire School

Sadly the theme at this school is attendance, not learning, not the growth of children, just how the community views the principal Mrs Hamnley. She is very dismissive and talks down to everyone. I do not feel she should be in charge of an elementary school. Hands down the worst school I have ever dealt with.

This school has gone through a recent administration change that forced out a tremendous kind, caring, educator. It is now ran by two Co-Principals. They bring nothing new to education. Just a cold and mundane personality. The superintendent of schools Joseph Goho is a joke of man for allowing this and forcing out a great principal.

Don't send your kids here just don't. When I was in the fifth grade my teacher left to go help his wife out with their new baby. For two weeks we got some packets that we worked on but then we just stop receiving them. This went on for another 2 months and nobody really cared. We played games on our computers all day and weren't learning a thing. The principal did not care about the students and when they would tell her that they were getting bullied she wouldn't care. There are some good teachers but the majority of them don't know how to teach and don't care about their students. When I left this school and went on to middle school I saw a major change in academics and I was actually learning stuff and even managed to get into Classical High School. This school is a joke please don't send your kids here.

To be quite frank I hate writing reviews but this school is so bad I felt it was almost a civic duty to write this. The school fails on multiple levels from quality of education to structure and design its basically a slave factory... they also don't even professionalism to pull parents aside and talk about issues they will lay into you in the courtyard... the real nail in the coffin for me was the fact that I was paying for my kid to receive bad education like I'm paying for my child to be behind why would I do that very depressing that this was the outcome.