Monte Vista Elementary School

Hmm...in response to the last comment, my kids have excelled at Monte Vista, Rosemont and CV High School, without the help of any tutors. They really owe their success to the stellar teachers! Their learning experience at Monte Vista has been enriched by the Meet the Masters art program, Robotics and Orchestra. There are tons of opportunities for parents to get involved if they want to help.
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The test scores are high here because of the highly tutored Korean children. They do not motivate just punish.
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I believe you cannot find better, more caring teachers than the ones my children have had at Monte Vista. I have seen these teachers go above and beyond to meet the personal needs of my children. We have been to several schools and feel very supported here. I received a personal telephone call recently to discuss a matter about which my child's teacher was concerned. I was so grateful for this proactive attention. I am thrilled to have students in their daily care. Also, the parents seem very supportive and fund extra music and theater programs which other schools do not offer. Our family very carefully selected this particular school for the strength of the teaching staff. My children are receiving very nurturing care from greatly qualified teachers.
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Principal, Susie Hoge is horrible!!!!! She should retire! not too sure why district continues to keep her, she is there to collect pays tub. She doesn't care for the kids. And school is constantly asking for donation one after another. Without the parents supports the school will not receive such a high scores on the test. Majority students gets private touring to receive such high stand scores. Additionally, there some good teachers, but most of them are spoil with gifts and they Riley on parents support when child is hurt during school hours, they have no explanations of why they were hurt. All could say is they were injured at recess. Bottom line principal doesn't care much and staffs adopts same behavior from her. .
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Horrible! The principal is completely robotic and uninvolved, the staff is cold, and the lunch program is the worst I have ever seen, extremely gross and disguting food, and with it the kids get the lunch monitors screaming at them to eat, very appetizing!They do not care about the kids they care about the test scores. You get what you pay for in this area, cold hearts, closed minds and lots of judgement and " cliqueness".
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We have been thrilled with the education offered to our children at Monte Vista. The teachers are truly dedicated to the art teaching children. My kids have loved the orchestra and band programs as well as the recorder class and choir programs. Gate has been excellent and the math club is a real treasure. The most amazing thing is the parental support from the community. We consider this school to be a blessing.
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Monte Vista is just barely acceptable. I suppose it gets hits high scores from the test scores from the large percentage of highly motivated and privately tutored Korean students who attend here, but the school itself has not motivated our children. If your child is average the teachers check out. One of the third grade teachers told our daughter every week she was destined for failure. There is no arts and no music program.
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We made a difficult decision to pull our kids out of Monte Vista. We didn't want to because we certainly pay tax dollars to support the school; but our children were not challenged. They were bogged down with slow learners and kids with behavior problems. The GATE program was of no use to us--not challenging enough. We sacrifice so our children can attend private school and they are both doing much better. We gave them two years for one child and three years for the other. I wish we hadn't waited so long to make the move, but we were trying to give the school a chance.
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Monte Vista offers a well rounded education in a safe environment. The teachers strive for excellence and are committed to professional development to pass along to their students. The academics are challenging and include GATE and other after school programs. The leadership is involved and fair-minded. I have worked at a private school and I do not believe those students received a better education than what my children have received here at Monte Vista.
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Monte Vista has a beautiful campus, caring parents that help in most all classrooms each day and a caring, sensitive and devoted staff and teachers that help each child to fulfill their educational dreams.
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Monte Vista has been a tremendous place for my children to grow and learn in a safe abd encouraging environment, all the while being challenged academically to achieve their full potential.
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Great teachers, great support system

Monte vista is a wonderful school with the best teachers in this area.. I know this well as my older sister(53) , myself (47), my nephew (32), and now my daughter (11) have all attended. Even though that is a wide spead of years and of course, teacher have changed...(Although, up until a year or so ago...My sister and my first grade teacher was still helping out!hooray for mrs. Walkey...She truly is monte vista!) this is a very loved school with active parent participation ....I still go to spirit day with my daughter and sing 'our' school song!
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Monte Vista Elementary School is a wonderful place for educating our childern. It not only has wonderful teachers who contribute to high academic acheivment of its students, it also a very safe and loving place for the students. It's truly the heart of our community.
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I love this school because of it's focus on learning and because the parents have a strong voice.
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What a fun place to learn! Monte Vista encourages students to be educated in the classroom with terrific teachers and by participating in extra curricular activites. Some of these are choir, orchestra, music theater, chess club, stacking club enabling other parts of the brain to be stimulated.
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Monte Vista Elementary School offers great academics. Along with it, PTA s initiatives and close involvements in all other aspects of child development give excellent benefits to the students. Collectively, that is why Monte Vista is the best Elementary School out there.
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There is a positive attitude at Monte Vista - teachers, staff and students are so proud to be a part of this wonderful community. Parents are very active and volunteer their time to teach their children during class time and help the teachers. It's a joy to be at Monte Vista!
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My kids are so happy there! They came from a private school to Monte Vista and couldn't be happier!
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I think that Monte Vista is a very good school and that my child will learn many new things.
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