Gisler (Robert) Elementary School

Our faamily has had children attend Gisler for the past seven years. Each of our children have grown both academically and socially. I am proud of the progress our kids have demonstrated and how the staff has approached learning as a partnership between the school and family. I truly believe that teachers see each day as an opportunity to support students development.

Our son attended preschool here and we were very pleased. Preschool was absolutely fantastic and so were the teachers, however we did pay a monthly fee for preschool. Fast forward to transitional kindergarten and I feel like this is a completely different school. The only involvement they want from parents is money. They care more about being paid by the state daily for your child showing up healthy or sick. There isn’t any communication from teachers (except during the yr conferences) meaning you don’t even get within 10 feet of them. As far as dropping off and picking up, it’s as if you’re sending your child to a compound. If the school feels this is the safest way for students, let me tell you, they are wrong! They leave a gate wide open near the street at all times of day which children play near during recess. If someone wanted to grab my child off campus if would be extremely easy for them to do so. As far as academics go I have no idea, there’s no REAL communication. As far as safety and health is concerned, they don’t care one bit, which are my 2 biggest concerns for any school.

While the teaching staff is great the office staff needs to learn how to treat people. 30 to 1 ratio of students to teacher is a little nuts in my opinion. My children are above the average and are not being challenged enough. They don't get tested when they are ready to move up in math or reading. Like I said before the teaching staff is great but because of the ratio they can't help the kids that want to move faster. I have 4 kids and work with them daily so that they will succeed in school. WhIle they are doing well they want to move a little faster then the teachers can provide.

We have 2 children attending here. We LOVE the principal! If their is an issue she finds a way to address it whether an assembly, meeting, or being the crossing guard. Almost all the teachers our children have had go above & beyond and We love their passion for teaching. Our children love going to school everyday and that makes us happy parents! We don't always like that they get quite a few substitutes due to the teachers miss a lot of teaching days for trainings & meetings etc.. Isn't that what teacher work days and summer should be about. Just a thought. But if it keeps the kids learning and teachers amazing who am I to really complain about the process. Both our children only had a rough 1st grade experience and had the same teacher. She maybe needs to rethink her career and know each child is unique and not each child responds to her type of discipline & structure. We just used it as a early life learning lesson on how you may not always like and get along with everyone. Customer service aspect the school is lacking A LOT! I would love for the front office staff & cafiteria workers to go to more trainings on that if anything. My children refuse to buy lunch after many attempts of buying and were either scolded for imputing their # in wrong due to feeling rushed or they run out of the item from the menu. If you have to deal with the front office ladies good luck! They are rude no matter what you are going in for. Everything is always your fault or are handled in a way that you are an annoyance to them. Lack of communication between teachers & nurses with them cause a lot of the issues. But I don't blame them I would avoid talking to them too if I could. Just have thick skin and only go in if you absolutely have to is my advice... Which is sad they are supposed to be welcoming and a friendly face of the school and the link to you and the school. The PTO is pretty awesome they ask for a lot, money, supplies, donations, volunteers, but we can see it all going to a great cause so ok with it. So all in all we keep our kids here for the only reason that we can see our kids love of learning brought on by the amazing teachers! So thank you to all the amazing teachers at Gisler!