Northwest School for Hearing

I do not understand the negative reviews below. The Evergreen School is a place that preaches and teaches kindness, acceptance and inclusion of all. The below reviews make it seem like acceptance of all is a bad thing. I want my kids at a school where they are accepted and where kids are taught to be kind. Evergreen focuses on the whole child. The academics are challenging and kids are met where they are academically. There is also so much focus on SEL, which is critical for the gifted population. In the "All Kinder Meeting" on Monday mornings in Kindergarten, kids learn about a different SEL topic, such as respect, kindness, friendship, gratitude. This is a wonderful example of the school's approach to SEL. In response to the negative reviews below - if you want your kids to be closed-minded, hateful and judgmental, then please don't send them here. Evergreen is a wonderful place for joyful learning and producing kind, creative, inclusive and well-rounded kids. My family feels so lucky to be apart of this amazing school and parent community.

Our family wanted to leave a review about why we left the school as a result of bullying. We're writing this because another family currently going through the same situation, with the same bully, contacted us for support using a previous year's directory. Our kindergartener at the time had been bullied at the school, which is hard to believe at their age, but it does happen. Our child was shoved from behind, punched (in the face on one occasion), forced into a hole during a construction period (church was being upgraded), chased with scissors, and other incidences. Our child began having night terrors, was biting his nails, and showing other signs of stress/anxiety. It was horrible.The teacher acknowledged it as bullying, but later retracted that when we involved higher level administration. The school's bullying policy has little follow thorough and substance in practice -- the response was a tremendous failure. We left St. Luke based on our pediatrician's recommendation.