What do you dislike about your elementary most?

[Anonymous]

The parents

[Anonymous]

I love our school and the newer principal is great. GOOD PTA. Diverse. Parents seem concerned about their kids' education without the hyper competition. But it's a lower rated school with local AAP services so many kids go to the center school. And lots of ESL kids. It seems like gen ed kids get neglected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I loved our elementary for my oldest because he got every amazing teacher for his grade. He was best friends with the PTA president who I didn't realize requested the best teacher for her son AND that our kids be together. Additionally, the cohort of kids that year was great. No drama, great group of kids.

My youngest hit the worst teachers or teachers who went out on maternity or medical leave. His cohort was so challenging and several kids are just out if control as in classrooms had to be evacuated. It was as if he attended a completely different school. The final straw was he was hit in the head by a rock that gave him a cut and barely missed his eye. I moved him to private school at the end of third grade.

what school system was this? This describes my experience with our FCPS school. My kids had very different experiences K-2 before AAP.

[Anonymous]

Dojo points. I want to strangle the people who made that app.

[Anonymous]

Building was old and had HVAC issues. I never saw a rodent, but I did see a roach or two.

[Anonymous]

Terrible admin, which caused a lot of excellent, very experienced teachers to leave. No differentiation for younger students or advanced math until fifth grade. A lot of families in our neighborhood chose private school before the pandemic because of these issues.

[Anonymous]

Whiny parents on a crusade.

[Anonymous]

Admin, indifferent teachers, no differentiation, constant opportunistic snaps for Insta so I signed no photo policy, kids were learning more at afterschooling so left for private. Pandemic only reinforced that our decision to leave was the right one "close for two weeks to stop the spread" sure

[Anonymous]

Posh teachers who put their own selfish interests ahead of their students, bully their coworkers, and whine and discredit their school.

[Anonymous]

I hate almost everything about our elementary school. We have had three principals in 5 years, and one of them was awful. She hired a lot of bad teachers who are still there. She was besties with the PTA witches, and they still seem to run things. I can't think of one good thing to say about it. But I'm not going to out my school, because I care about my home value. We are going private next year though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate almost everything about our elementary school. We have had three principals in 5 years, and one of them was awful. She hired a lot of bad teachers who are still there. She was besties with the PTA witches, and they still seem to run things. I can't think of one good thing to say about it. But I'm not going to out my school, because I care about my home value. We are going private next year though.

This sounds like my private.

[Anonymous]

I hate it being a Center fo AAP. There are the "haves" and the "have nots". It's a small school and the division, the separation of the kids -- educationally, socially is severe.