Greenbriar East Elementary School

This school is extremely toxic with horrible bullying that is not dealt with in a timely or effective manner. My child was terribly bullied. Despite knowing there were issues, on a number of occasions these children were allowed to be around my child resulting in, at times, injury. This was all without staff apparently noticing.

Our child was a student at GBE till 6th grade. Since the current regime took over just prior to COVID GBE has gotten worse and worse in terms of academics, toxic environment, and administrative indifference to all of the above.

As a student of GBE I would never let anyone go to this school in any way there is a lot of sexistem and this school is bad

Greenbriar East is not a GT center. It is a neighborhood school. The students comprise a wide variety of socio-economic backgrounds from single family houses to the large apartment complexes that are on Route 50. The school is also very multicultural with many, many different languages being spoken in my kids' classes. I found that the teachers went out of their way to be helpful to all students. In my kids' classes, teachers responded over weekends, in the morning before class and in the evenings after classes. In this pandemic year, where keeping virtual students has been a challenge, the teachers went of out of their way, and out of the syllabus, by holding virtual sessions after class etc. The only complaint/observation I would have is that compared to other FCPS schools in the surrounding area, Greenbriar East students seem to have too much homework in the lower grades.

Our kids went here for a year and found a toxic culture and acceptance of bullying. We weren’t alone, had other parents with similar complaints. We moved from the area a few years ago but the bullying in this school still comes out in dinner conversations.