My child has been attending this school since before Democracy Prep has even taken over. After the…read moretakeover, we were unsure of how we would feel, and for several months, I was satisfied at their curriculum and how they motivated the kids. Here lately, the school is changing things up, and it has me questioning whether or not to even keep my kid here.
For instance, since the beginning of the takeover (August 2018), the kids were allowed to wear their uniform (white, royal blue, and blue collared shirts, with black or khaki uniform bottoms, like shorts, skirts, pants, etc). But now (Feb 2019), they have done away with all white collared shirts, and all the black uniform bottoms. I literally spent alot of money on the clothes that my kid can no longer able to wear. What they can wear now, is only the uniform shirt with the school Emblem that you have to purchase at $15 each. Not only that, but the kids are not even able to wear their jackets during this cold weather. Instead, they must only wear a thin $15 sweater that has the schools logo on it or they cannot even enter the building. Yet, everyday during drop off and pickup, the teachers and staff are all bundled up in their nice warm jackets and scarves of their choosing while some of these kids have nothing to keep warm since they cannot wear their jackets from home. Mind you, this is a low-income side of town. I was only able to afford 2 logo uniform shirts, and the logo sweater so my kid can be somewhat warm for $45. This might not sound like much, but again, we are low-income.
The next complaint I have is that the kids are being forced to go to Saturday school now, but I did not approve because I am busy on this day and cannot take or pick up, so one of the teachers has told my kid that they will have to go to after school detention to make up for the saturdays missed. I guess the schools strict learning criteria has now added on a 6-day school week for these children.
My child, which is an honor student that usually likes school, has recently asked me if they can please go to a different school. I am not there during school,so who knows what other strict and petty demands are being dictated to these kids. I made a yelp account just so I can vent about this and hopefully shine some light onto what is going on at this school because it is getting way out of hand.
