Burton Elementary School

We are so happy with Fircrest. The staff is friendly, engaged, and they know every kid's name! Our experience with teachers has been very positive. With learning and behavior concerns for our son, the teachers have worked with us to positively reinforce better academic and social outcomes. We love that the school is diverse and offers accommodations for multiple languages, including a focus on sign language! Also, the school's theme of "Let Kindness Ripple" is something we carry into our interactions with family and community members.

My son has been at Image the last 3 years (K-3) and we love this school and it's staff. He was having some behavioral problems and his teachers, the school counselor, principal, and vice principal were supportive and helping us to find solutions and in the process of us getting his ADHD diagnosis. He is excelling in his school work, making friends and had adults at the school we can trust.

I have nothing but awful things to say about this school. The teacher they had for my daughters kindergarten class did not teach any of the early development criteria that would be expected of a kindergarten class. The school allowed bullying and did nothing to stop it despite all my efforts, calls to the school, the teacher, other parents, the principal or the counselor. I fought for my daughter all last year to have nothing addressed or fixed. I now have my daughter in a new school district where she has been placed in a classroom with a teacher who is knowledgeable and knows how to teach younger children. My daughter is being placed in a class to help her with her reading due to the fact that she was unable to learn in the environment she was in last year. We have had to place her in occupational therapy to help her understand and control her emotions due to the bullying that she dealt with at this school. The school did not follow protocol on many occasions. I was not informed when my daughter received a head injury at school. They never called me about the incident but I ended up taking her to the doctor and she had a small concussion. She came home in clothes that were not her own on multiple occasions with no notice to me or her father as to why she was in different clothes. She was bullied the entirety of the year from kicking, hitting, spitting, being punched, shoved into mud puddles and specifically told by other students that she could not play with them, Now in 1st grade in a new school we are starting from scratch and trying to undo all the damage that was done at this school. None of that even covered the lack of actual learning they did during the year, She is behind in reading and math and needs extra help to catch up. Emotionally she has degraded and we are working to build up her confidence and self worth that was completely destroyed.

I loved this school, I don’t remember much of the education, but the staff were so lovely. They cared so much for the students, the school videos are so adorable and I love how they kept doing that over the years. I keep going back to see my class in the Happy video a few years ago. So so adorable. Any child would be happy to be there.

Teachers and administrators care so much for the students