Pine Grove Elementary

Way too many students in each classroom. They put my child in a combo first second grade classroom. She was a first grader. I feel like she went from kindergarten to second grade into the land of iPad use most of the day. Thankfully my child was not a victim of bullying, but she witnessed so much drama that she was getting frequent stomach aches. All the teachers she had were pretty great, though 2 retired. Music class was never fun, because if a child was not listening, no one got to touch the instruments. The fundraisers were always the same and so boring. I’m so glad I pulled all my children to homeschool. California public schools should hire more teachers and pay them. 1 teacher should never ever have 30 students and 2 grades to teach at once. It’s basically a day full of chaos and distractions. So sad for this generation of children.

This school is awful. I only have one child, and am so glad I don't have to go through all the same garbage if I had more children. It started in 2nd grade, got worse in 4th (his male teacher was a bully), 6th grade was a nightmare. In general I would say the problem is the "attitude" of state employed teachers. They have this mentality that they are "all supreme" or untouchable. Many of them believe that since they are teachers they know everything...they don't. They may be knowledgeable on their subject, but that's about it. For some reason they hold the belief that they can do as they please with your child in their classroom. They seem to forget they are a tate paid employee, my tax dollars pay their over-inflated union wages, therefore they work for me the taxpayer! I am so disgusted with the experience at the elementary level, that I will begin homeschooling my child the rest of his education at home.