Jack D. Johnson Elementary

Top notch staff and teachers. Engaged children. Involved parents. Great pto. Old union is the best!

This school has been great until we got to Christina "Tina" Lemonds. My son has never had any problems before her and always been a star student with the other teachers. He is very shy, quiet, reserved and doesn't lash out or speak much. He constantly tells me the rude things she tells the class one of them being "I don't get paid enough for this" among other insults to students and how she makes them cry all the time.The corona virus policy here is a joke. My son has been sent home twice because of possible infected corona virus students yet other students are still going to the class. He's had to 10 day quarantine twice now because he was picked by the teacher to be next to that other student. My older son in another grade sleeps right next to him every night but yet he's still allowed to go. How does that make sense?Online learning? It doesn't work half of the time.Thanks for ruining my kids education so far.

We have had our daughter at this school for three years now and couldn't be happier. While of course she has a "group" of friends that she gravitates towards, she legitimately believes that all of the kids in her class are her friends. The teachers are fantastic and REALLY care about the students (I've seen them moved to tears), and welcome parental involvement! Probably my favorite anecdote about my daughter's time at Clariden is that while watching a show the other day, I had to explain to her what bullying IS. Bullying is so far removed from anything that she's dealt with so far that when I explained the concept, she responded with "Why would my friends at school be mean to me." Honestly, I didn't have a good answer for that... and that's a wonderful feeling. Thankful for Clariden!