Anonymous wrote:My child is starting this year and see in another thread that the principal was on leave ending the year. Is she staying (I haven’t heard the best things about her) or how does the school run when they are down an administrator? Is the SESES program pretty contained? We are coming from another school where the students from the SESES program took up all the teacher’s energy and the classes were still really large. Thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with the above comment that the principal is not good and ruined the school. She is not kept updated with the latest scientific research on how to develop the welling of students. She heavily relies on the other staff in the school but uses her authority to suspend anyone she feels like. Unfortunately, she is also a racist and not honest.

As someone with kids at westbrook, this poster seems unhinged. All the positive stuff in earlier posts is true.

it’s not hinged, it’s someone’s experience. There are over 500 family goes to school, yours is not mine. You can disagree but please don’t attack.

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Anonymous wrote:This makes me so sad. My kids went there forever ago (my youngest is graduating from B-CC this year) and Carnival was the best! The way the kids would look forward to it forever and just run out and have the best time! It was huge. It was always amazing that it was so impressive each year and they made so much money. I always remember it as a huge fundraiser. What caused them to downsize it? My dd got a design on the t-shirt- it was a Star Wats theme, that’s all I remember. But we definitely got the tickets before leaving the school and it was fun for kids and parents.

They stopped doing the t-shirts this year

I'm curious if any of the people complaining have ever volunteered to help with the event.

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Anonymous wrote:This makes me so sad. My kids went there forever ago (my youngest is graduating from B-CC this year) and Carnival was the best! The way the kids would look forward to it forever and just run out and have the best time! It was huge. It was always amazing that it was so impressive each year and they made so much money. I always remember it as a huge fundraiser. What caused them to downsize it? My dd got a design on the t-shirt- it was a Star Wats theme, that’s all I remember. But we definitely got the tickets before leaving the school and it was fun for kids and parents.

They stopped doing the t-shirts this year

Anonymous wrote:This makes me so sad. My kids went there forever ago (my youngest is graduating from B-CC this year) and Carnival was the best! The way the kids would look forward to it forever and just run out and have the best time! It was huge. It was always amazing that it was so impressive each year and they made so much money. I always remember it as a huge fundraiser. What caused them to downsize it? My dd got a design on the t-shirt- it was a Star Wats theme, that’s all I remember. But we definitely got the tickets before leaving the school and it was fun for kids and parents.

Anonymous wrote:What rides do they have?? At an ES spring festival?

Anonymous wrote:The carnival was completely underwhelming, I spent twice as much as prior years, my kid only went on three rides, each once, and the cute homey touches were gone. No t shirts, bottlemania, food trucks, MS/HS bands, KAH climbing wall and bounce houses, parent volunteers wearing recognizable sashes or hats, etc. Very confusing about which things needed wrist band, tickets, cash, etc. To kick off carnival with excited kids running out of the school straight to a twenty minute ticket line ....nope. they needed those wristbands on and ready to go from their classrooms. Total turn off in every way. For the first year ever, I also worried about outsiders (teens mostly) coming in and making security disturbances since it was apparently advertised throughout the county. I get the pressure to hedge on bad weather and make money for the school but I did not enjoy this year's experiment.

Anonymous wrote:We’ve been at the school for 10 straight years with multiple kids. It’s a fabulous school with wonderful teachers and a strong PTA (though the PTA seems to be more cash-strapped and short on volunteers now that the school has increased in size). Yes, it was a transition after COVID for our school to nearly double in size with the boundary change, but it’s still smaller than even some local private schools (e.g., Blessed Sacrament has more classes per grade in some grades). I strongly dislike the principal and do not know why she is currently on leave (when this happened last time everyone speculated she had been fired, but to their dismay it was for other reasons and life went I ). However, the teachers and community are strong enough to allow me to just block her out and still have a great experience for our family and kids.