St. Augustine Catholic School

My grandson is autistic and attends Lincoln in the preschool program for children with special needs. The program really needs to be re-evaluated. I'm strongly encouraging my grandson's parents to find him another school for the next school term.

This school certainly is not an awful one, but there is always room for improvement.

This school has done extremely well to improve the strategies to best fit the children's needs. But, the main problem we have are parents that will not help with homework or things that need to happen at home, so we are behind in the school. This is a great school to be at, and we have recently met our AYP requirements. We are only going up from here

I was hired to be the bqnd director but on day one was told the posistion was for general music and got push back when I brought up the posistion information that stated they were hiring for a band director. They said they want a band but need to get kids interested in it first before developing the program so wanted a general music teacher instead. The school is also disserving students because they do not have sped resources for the overwhelming majority of students who require more assistance than they can get from a normal classroom. Students at this school are not held accountable for their behavior which is reflected in their test scores because the majority of the time they are running the halls and vandalising school property along with disrupting other teachers classrooms. The administration has the attitude that puts students at risk later in life because they are not developing a sense of accountability to do the right thing on theirbown without coxing. Being rewarded in food and candy for just going into a classroom most days.

I was so excited to learn that Memphis has a Performing Arts elementary school. I have never heard about an elementary school that focuses so heavily on the arts while still valuing the academic success of its students.