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[quote=Anonymous]I always thought that most of the elementary schools within a cluster or clusters close in rankings would be very similar.

Our elementary school seems to have a very different tone. First, the school security seems like a maximum prison ward. Parents are never allowed in the school. When you enter the doors, you must walk through the office. For aftercare you must bang on the outer door of the cafeteria and wait for someone to open it, you can not walk in the front door even though the inside door to the cafeteria is right next to it and wide open. For open house, all parents had to wait outside and were not permitted to walk back to the classrooms until it the minute it started. Parents were quickly ushered out the minute it finished. We did daycare at a facility that was on the grounds of another school in the cluster. The daycare would sometimes use the gym and we could easily walk in to get our kids. I know parents at the other clusters who are allowed to walk in to their schools. They aren't hanging around or anything but they don't feel like intruders.

Our PTA is very poorly attended. The PTA seems very focused to sticking to the bare minimum.

There are no emails or newsletters from our grade level. You have to try to figure out what they are doing from the worksheets that come home. There is a principals newletters but it is 80% reminders about some policy. It reads more like a warning letter.

The administrators at the back to school meeting kept mentioning how happy there were not to have helicopter parents and praising us for not being helicopter parents.

The whole thing is VERY off-putting and just seems like they do everything possible to keep parents out of their hair. I was looking forward to the community aspect of public school not just dump my child off in an institution with no idea what she is doing.[/quote]

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