Beacon Park

Not one bad thing to report about the school. Highlight: The Musical that IPSF runs with Ms. Armi/Ms. Phoebe/ Ms.Laurie is mind blowing! It's like a Broadway quality show on a small scale. Complete with cutting edge technology from this 4 years newly built school. The Music program starting in 4th grade is also impressive with Orchestra, Strings and Vocal instruction. Technology is ON POINT. Every 3rd grader gets access to a Chromebook for their use at school. When the school was shut down for COVID19, IUSD and Beacon Park got their students on-line within 1.5 weeks of the Governor's Stay-At-Home declaration. Where our LA School that we left didn't get their students online for 3 weeks. Amazing. Seamless.

Even though a lot of my scores may not reflect it my experience was not terrible. There is a lot of things that it really needs to work on and especially since it is new, I understand that it will take time. Bullying and verbal abuse I think is a big issue with the school and they seem to let kids get away with it even if they are proven to be the perpetrators. The staff and their comfort ness is also something that I am passionate should be dealt with. The teachers never seemed to particularly care about the actual students and how their learning, caring more about letter grades and their own reputation as teachers. They also dealt with standards based grading entirely wrong. I don’t think they understand the concept of standards based grading and how it’s supposed to make a student feel as if they are learning rather them making them feel dumb or worthless(as many teachers have made me and many others feel). Hopefully they will improve their program, especially their middle school program. They need to understand that we are still kids and that everyone deserves respect, this is not really instilled in any of the students. The teachers and staff need to behave more as comforting humans instead of seeming robotic. Some good things about this school is that I’ve made so many friends and it is a lot more diverse than some other schools in Irvine. The two breaks that we had in a day were really nice, and the technology is very good.