Lea's Christian School

First of all the teacher was inexperienced. It was her first year teaching kindergarten. I felt my son was constantly badgered and told what not to do rather than be redirected and reinforced the good things. My son reported to me that he felt as though he could not report anything to the teacher as he felt he would be "yelled at" and was told not to "tattle tail" (an-age-inappropriate subject of distinguishing between tattle tailing and reasonable reporting that was taught in class to 4 and 5 year old children).

I found this school not to be suitable for parents who both work or single parents. The school relies on the parents to do a lot of the work which included a lot of homework, fundraising activities with minimum required monies that needed to be raised, volunteering (such as cleaning up the school premise and driving students to field trips), news letters (parents need to sign off that they attest to have read them), and meetings. In addition, the school has no problem suspending my 5 year old, on the 3rd week of school, who shoved another student or did a raspberry in another student's face. I was asked during the middle of a work day to come pick my son up from school because he had shoved another boy. "How can I just pick up and leave work like that?" I have to work to make money to pay for his education at your school. "Was it an emergency?" I have never been called by his previous schools for such a conduct that is typical for a 5 yo boy. I honestly think it is a school purely for profit and has little whole-hearted interest in the children,

I was told by the school to consult my son's pediatrician regarding his behavior, which I did. My son's pediatrician informed me that shoving, pushing, hitting at this age were normal child behavior, especially when he was transitioning to a new school for kindergarten. Then the school (I met with the principle and primary teacher) loosely tossed out that my son may have ADHD and asked me to pursue further evaluation with a child psychologist. Again, I abide, but the psychologist did not think my son had ADHD, and if he did, that it was very very mild. The child psychologist then asked to speak to my son's teacher to get a better understanding of all the circumstances that had transpired. He made multiple attempts (3x), but the teacher did not return his calls. How can a school loosely suggest my son has ADHD, tells me to pursue help, insist they are always there to help children, then turns its back on a simple phone evaluation requested by the child psychologist? How is this a private Christian school? Such hypocrisy! Lastly, after my son's last suspension, the principle calls for a meeting with me and my husband, designates a date and time, and when we informed her we could not make it, she informs us that due to our lack of cooperation, our son is now expelled. Unbelievable!

My son is doing fine in his new school and he adores his new teacher.