A+ Arts Academy

My daughter is currently a student at A+ Arts Academy and after this year she will not be back. I feel the principal Mr. Harrison is more concerned with "throwing his weight around" than the best interest of my child or ant other. The teachers are giving 3rd and 4th grade work to my 5th grader, they NEVER have homework other than work done in class, most of the teachers don't care anything about the children as you get no calls about how they are doing etc. But are more than happy to have plenty of excuses on how many children they have in their classroom so they can not send a simple note on DOJO. Everytime you turn around the school is planning something for the children then cancelling it or postponing it i.e, basketball practice, dance, cheerleading and the principal always has an excuse on why this is the case. Dress down days are more frequent and the children have to pay $1, which is fine, but where is the money going? They don't have books, and if they do they have to stay in the classroom or are shared. Since when don't kids have books? The work that is done in class is mostly xeroxed copies, or printed copies of something the teacher got off line or from a workbook he/she has. It's absolutely RIDICULOUS!! Then they wonder why these kids don't pay attention, THERE BORED!! My daughter does very well in school but she's not challenged. She will not attend this school after this year and I definitely would not recommend it to anyone else. I will say, however, a select few teachers are great..but I can count them on about 3 fingers.

Staff is uneducated and under educated. Students are being denied an education at this school.

My children spent two school years at A+ Arts Academy on Fair Ave. After this second year I have decided to pull their registration and look for another school. I feel as a parent I have failed my students, they both are honor roll students with good test scores so I assumed that they were receiving the best educational experience that a public school had to offer and boy was I wrong. At the end of the school year I received the test scores from my daughters state testing which showed that she was above average but was only slightly higher than her scores she received the year prior. This tells me that for a whole school year my daughter learned absolutely nothing new. And to confirm that I took my children to another school that is rated number 7 in the state based off of testing scores and though they excelled in reading and language arts ( something they were doing prior to A+) they didn't meet average in math scores. I am truly disappointed because I believed in A+. Moving beyond testing scores the Fair Ave school is in utter chaos and when parents come to the school with valid concerns(child safety, bullying, issues with staff) the principal Mr.Faulks is very condescending and disrespectful he absolutely doesn't care about the well -being of your child. Furthermore he treats the parents as if we are all under educated garbage. I have two degrees and am a working professional and if I treated any of my clients the way that he is allowed ( I say this because administration is aware of his behavior) to treat parents and students I would be UNEMPLOYED. I am not leaving this review to trash this school they are doing a fine job at doing so themselves. I am leaving this review so that other parents who want more for their children will be aware the A+ does not mean more but less. For those teachers that are excellent educators I feel for you and wish that find a position in a school that appreciates your thirst for teaching and your collective talents. I thank you (Mr.Bell, Dr.Samuels, Mr.Drew, Mr.King,Mrs. Teriaga) you are wonderful and A+ doesn't deserve you