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    My son went to Westtown. It was a great experience for him. My niece is going to attend this fall.

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    Penn Wood Elementary School

    Penn Wood Elementary School

    1.0(2 reviews)
    0.7 mi

    1 Star -- And Honestly, That's Generous…read more Penn Wood Elementary, congratulations: you managed to make elementary school feel like a punishment. Aparently, expecting a first grader to magically process FOUR verbal instructions at the same time was completely reasonable. When I could only remember the last direction, the obvious solution was apparently to get angry at me instead of repeating the instructions or helping me understand them. Revolutionary teaching strategy. And then there was the first grade teacher who decided that publicly yelling at a child and calling them a failure was somehow an acceptable way to teach. Nothing says "great educational environment" quite like humiliating a little kid in front of their entire class. I cried every day that school year. Every. Day. Looking back, it is honestly astonishing that the adults in the room apparently couldn't recognize that a child struggling with instructions needed SUPPORT instead of getting screamed at. Maybe Penn Wood should invest in better teachers, better training, and a basic understanding of how to treat children. And if that somehow sounds like too much to ask, maybe the whole place needs to be torn down and rebuilt from the ground up--starting with the attitude toward students. Absolutely awful experience. 1 star is generos.

    I was a student here almost 12 years ago, and the fact that they have glowing reviews on other…read morewebsites shocks me. I had maybe 2 good teachers throughout my time there, and then once I hit 3rd grade it all went down hill. I was having a difficult time learning, and wasn't a great student. I was diagnosed with a learning disability (which was actually misdiagnosed) and started an IEP. I swear, once I got the IEP, that's when things got worse. The teachers I had (from 3rd to 5th grade) looked down on anyone that had a disability, and treated them completely different from the other kids. I remember teachers talking to me more slowly because they thought I was too stupid to comprehend what they were saying, and often having a condescending tone as well. I also remember being called out in front of the whole class several times for habits I had a difficult time controlling, such as fidgeting in my chair or biting my nails (anxiety). This didn't happen to just me, this happened to other kids that they thought were stupid just because they have some sort of learning disability. Also, unless you were known to be well liked/popular, or were in the gifted program (and perhaps both), they didn't like you or care about you. Any claims of bullying were not taken seriously, and they often told victims that they bring it upon themselves. Hopefully some of the old hags I had for teachers have retired and are far away from developing today's young minds. Maybe Penn Wood has changed for the better since I was there, but I highly doubt it. If you have a child with a disability, even if it's very mild and makes them only slightly different from their peers, spend the extra money to send them to a different school where they won't be blatantly discriminated against and made to feel like they're absolutely worthless and stupid on a daily basis.

    West Chester Area School District

    West Chester Area School District

    1.0(1 review)
    4.2 mi

    School diggers If you want to move to WCASD to get away from…read morebullying. DON'T. We moved from DE however, would never have moved here if we knew about the culture of the district. Facts about bullying. (1) Nationally accepted statistics: 1 in 5 or 20% of all children are bullied in school. (2) 20 percent of WCASD 11,500 students equals 2,300 students. (3) On average, 492 (29%) WCASD Parents/Guardians Surveyed in 2014, 15, 16 & 17 said their child(ren) were bullied. (4) In the following years (2014, 15, 16 & 17), WCASD reported to the PA Safe School Act, the following # of bullying incidents: Year. # of incidents 2017: 5 2016: 1 2015: 1 2014: 0 (5) WCASD drastically under reported bullying incidents to the State of PA. Why? (6) Superintendent, Dr. Scanlon, has stated that WCASD definition of bullying differs from the definition which parents, guardians envision as bullying. Does Dr. Scanlon & the WCASD have the right to tell us that our child has not been bullied when by our definition they have been bullied? "About 71 percent of school shooters felt "persecuted, bullied, threatened, attacked or injured" leading up to their rampage, according to Secret Service data." "A few school shooters have even acknowledged bullying as a driving force behind their attack." (a) Newsweek. Before you move to WCASD, do your homework. Just because a district has a reputation for students to getting high grades does not always mean it is a Great School District.

    Westtown School - elementaryschools - Updated September 2026

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