Village East Community Elementary School

There are a few wonderful teachers in this building, but the rest are mediocre at best. The administration is the worst I have ever seen. The new principal that was brought in a couple years ago has no clue how to run the school. My mother worked at VE for 5 years and my daughter attended school there Kindergarten and First grade. Since they were both there, I volunteered on a very regular basis. It is not our home school, but I liked the idea of my daughter being in a school with someone I could trust. Her Kindergarten teacher was amazing, but by the 4th week of school I knew that she was the only thing I liked about the place. The staff at the front desk changed all the time, and I never saw the same person more than a few times. Not to mention they were incredibly rude. The students in the older grades are almost always loud and out of control, and I never saw their teachers take action. The poor TA's are over worked and under appreciated, but even then, I saw a few who couldn't care less about their jobs. I would have taken my daughter out of that school at the end of her first year, but I wanted so desperately to give it another shot. But her second year was even less impressive. From what I can tell, the principal's entire focus is on numbers and ratings, not about the education of his students or quality of his staff. He allows teachers, who've made zero effort to follow new curriculum, to stay while he gets rid of anyone who had a tough year or rubbed him the wrong way and then lies to their face about it. My mother is the perfect example. This school and its principal really need to get it together. I know for a fact that they are talked about district wide, from inside the district at that, and not for good reasons.