I believe in supporting my local community but I bitterly regret the choice I made to send my two…read morechildren to this school last year. A modernization of this school was completed in Summer 2012 and a whole new building was added. In addition to the regular local attendees, children from several surrounding schools were relocated to Denver and the school also plays host to some specialist Functional Skills classes for special needs children. The average household for this area is low income and the number of single parents are above average. These are not bad kids but kids who face more challenges than others. Excellence starts from the administration and should cascade downwards...and this is perhaps why Denver is such a miserable place for the children to attend and a hellaciously frustrating and ineffective establishment for a parent to have to deal with. The Principal spent an entire year trying her best to be invisible. Phone calls and voicemail messages were consistently ignored, she was never once visible to parents dropping off or collecting their children during the year and on the occasions where she was cornered proved about as effective as a pair of flip flops in a rainstorm. Communication was atrocious. Control over her staff was non existent. Sincerity, interest and common sense appear to have disappeared some time ago. In life you come across people professionally who seem more interested in their title, office space and power than they are in trying to make a difference in their job. This was one of those situations. Day one of school started with a huge drive to sign parents up to the PTA - fantastic. A school like this desperately needs parents who care. After signing up on day one, I spent the rest of the year asking for a receipt which never materialized. The PTA (which incidentally was still not formally 'registered' six months into he school year and should therefore not have been called a PTA) never held an inaugural meeting until three months after school started and then proceeded to hold one minor event a few weeks before school finished. Not sure where the monies went or how the finds were used to benefit the kids. All I know is that I never received a receipt for my donation and I never saw any interest whatsoever on the part of the school in making the PTA a success. In terms of the school staff, I can obviously only comment on those who I dealt with personally. There are two specific teachers who made the effort every single day to stand outside and welcome the children into school. They should be commended and if there was an ounce of justice should be invited to give the Principal lessons in how to talk to parents. If only the guidance counselors, teachers and faculty members who took an entire year to organize my child's special needs assessment and IEP were half as interested.... We had several interesting run ins with staff over the year. the first was with a maintenance man who walked the corridors talking loudly about 'White boys' and 'Muslim terrorists' into his cellphone whilst my two children and I stared at him in disbelief. I gave up on trying to talk to the Principal over this (she did not return messages and claimed that she had not received the voicemails I sent) but when it was finally addressed she stated that she had 'no control over her staffs personal opinions' but that the issue of 'using a cellphone during school hours' would be addressed. The first amendment is a wonderful thing and I gives me the right to proclaim it to be my opinion that divisive racist behavior such as this has no place in a school and ineffective lying Principals should probably find alternative employment. Another interesting run in with the staff happened a couple of weeks before the end of the year and involved a bus of special needs children being dropped off to the school. I witnessed a teachers assistant grab a non verbal special needs child by the wrist and tell him he was a nasty thief who would end up in jail ( loudly and in front of both his classmates and other assistants). she then proceeded to push him backwards against the bus by twisting his arm and then using her other hand to search his pockets. This stinks of child abuse and assault. I reported this incident immediately to the Principal who verbally advised the person responsible that she needed to be more aware of her actions and that her actions could be 'perceived wrongly'. I would like to think that this child's parents were informed so that they had the option of escalating the issue...........I doubt this was the case though. Denver has a reputation of a failing, ghetto school that should be seen and not heard. There are a lot of great kids here who need help, role models and people who are going to try and change things. As it stands, Denver Elementary will just continue to perpetuate this image and these problems. Rot starts at the top and works it's way downwards.

Located in lovely (I'm biased) Arlington, Tennessee, a suburb of Memphis…read more This school educates children pre-K through fifth grade, and is headed by principal Gina Gore, and two assistant principals, Anna Jones and Carl Booker. It's encouraged for parents to be involved in the decision-making processes that affect big decisions at the school like curriculum and programs. And, it's one of the few public schools in Tennessee to get a Great School rating of 9/10. When many parents are choosing to send their kids to private school, due to lack of quality in education, it's nice to know that your child can receive a less-expensive, high-quality education here.

I've come to know a lot of the personnel at AES and I can say that we made a great decision in…read moremoving to Arlington. Beyond the shadow of a doubt, they have the education and well-being of the children their number one priority! My two sons actually look forward to going to school on Mondays.......that says it all to me.

My son is in the kindergarten this year and he is having an exceptional year! Mrs. Porter is so…read morepatient and kind to my little one. You will love it here!

This school does not care to help children that are having trouble with learning. Because my son…read morewas not in the optional program he was thrown in a classroom with 29 other students and 1 teacher for his entire 4th grade year. The same teacher taught all subjects in which she never completed most lessons because she could not control her class. This was told to me by her personally. My son was not a problem child and is now suffering academically in the 5th grade due to the lack of information he was taught in 4th grade. I asked several times for work to be sent home and never received it, now I know why. His current school is doing everything to get him caught up to speed as well as me having to hire a tutor. They make it look good but, if your child is not optional they will not push your child and apparently do not care if they are able to succeed once your child leaves their school. This school has went completely down hill the last 2 years. I am writing this review so that concerned parents will not have to go through the trouble my son and I are having to go through in the 5th grade now.

This school needs to reopen for the next generation. I had a great experience here, kids of the…read morefuture should attend this school so they can have a higher education.

Harding is a great school! I recommend it! So many kind people, and teachers who are actually there…read moreto encourage and push their students in their studies better. Great athletics with good sports teams.

I went to this school, and this place hurts its students. Some faculty can be almost like family,…read morebut many (particularly the higher ups) are cold and stuck in outdated traditional ways. They are hypocritical, sweeping bullying and issues of race, gender, and sexuality under the rug. It is a good school from an education standpoint, however. It prepared me well for college, but the Bible curriculum is outrageously useless and outdated, save for the senior teacher. Even still, the good education wasn't worth the hate I experienced there. Don't send your kids to Harding Academy.

Dogwood School is a good choice for parents who want a private school experience for public school…read moreprice. Kids are given special enrichment activities regularly such as growing and releasing butterflies, field trips to Elmwood Cemetery, and Reading with Friends. The PTA is the real deal no joke a major power house. Check out spring fest and the several on site playgrounds including huge interactive butterfly life cycle.