Mountain View Elementary School

We pulled our kids out of this school and choiced into a different school. Our kids were anxious, unhappy and stressed out. They came home every day complaining that they didn’t like school and every morning it was like pulling teeth to get them to go. Year after year of this with multiple teachers proved it wasn’t just an anomaly. They are now back to their happy selves and loving school. Pulling our kids out of this school was the best decision we ever made. Neither the teachers, nor leadership of this school are effective. Also, they manipulate the test scores. My kids were given multiple “practice” tests until they got to some predetermined score (they reported 80% was the target for them). But when we had them independently assessed, they were working below grade level in multiple areas. We have to remedial work to catch them up.

We pulled our son from this school after 6 months of Kindergarten. The teacher was approaching retirement and didn't seem to care anymore. She was gone for weeks at a time. We met with the principal and teacher together twice and things never got better. The principal was far too delicate to effectively lead. They do use isolation punishment with the Kindergarteners. After accruing enough infractions throughout the day, the student is put into a corner at the end of the day while the other kids have fun. My child was punished for using the words "poop and pee" on the playground. He was 6 years old. They also use peer-pressure punishment which leads to bullying (i.e. all kids are punished if one kid messes up.). My son was punished for not having his reading books, which he did, in fact, have in his backpack all week long. The teacher blew us off saying, "He should be independent enough to find it because I have a lot of kids ." She punished him anyway, to the point he was coming home DEPRESSED. He hated school and it was only Kindergarten. At drop off in the morning, he would say to me, "Are you sure I can do this?" It was heart breaking. He knew the teacher didn't like him. We spoke to the school counselor and she told us the school has a "culture problem." She also told us she [the counselor] had been there several weeks and had already decided to not come back after the summer break. When the counselor had visited our child in class at our request, she found him being punished and crying under his shirt, alone in the corner. She had no idea what he had done wrong. That was the last straw. We had to protect our child's mental health from this toxic school. After spring break, my husband and I didn't send him back. We withdrew him from the district and began our journey of homeschooling. Our son is a new boy. He is FAR ahead in his education, loves learning, and has great friends. He is very athletic and spends so much more time playing outside than he ever did at that school. He is happy again. My only regret is that we didn't pull him out sooner. My advice to parents is, don't consider this website's rating system as the reason you choose a school. A school that cares more about State testing and nothing about how children are treated is a very bad school. I would tell parents to consider homeschooling before choosing this school. You can do it.

Hit and miss...one child was is middle of the road academically and not a behavior problem and over looked because of it, and the other I had to prove needed extra support. The classroom teacher flat out told me my child did not have a learning disability and did not differentiate learning for my daughter. That teacher also influenced how her teacher the next year approached my daughter’s education and she was written off again. We changed schools and found the support we needed. Do you know how hard it is to regain the love of learning?

Terrible. I would not recommend Mountain View Elementary to others.