Scholars Academy Charter School

My hats go off to the teachers at scholars academy. This is a rare bunch! They are clear of their responsibility and care for and teach the children with a surrogate mindset. They are absolutely amazing!!! The administration on the other hands in horrible! They are not professional nor do they know what they are doing. Most parents are pulling their kids while waiting for the other shoe to drop. They lost alot of great teachers, teh former board chair, and pta president all who implemented strong, positive changes for them to move forward and of course they didn't use any of it! The organization of the 2 field trips they had were done poorly and the afterschool program is a joke! The school is broke! My kids will not be returning. The entire board needs to be removed and the seats filled with productive, serious citizens who understand that children are 1st! This is even more reason why the teachers get a virtual hi-5! Dealing with all of that disorganization has to be a dozzie. Pathetic! SMH... P.S. The stars are for the teachers! ********* You may want to look at them personally to hire as private tutors!
--Submitted by a parent

I wish I could give this school a 10*! Words cannot explain the whole experience this year 2010-2011. They had some problems with administration but they cleaned it up and keep moving the shift was made without interfering with the schools structure. His teacher was Ms. Smallwood and he spent time with Ms. Reynolds, Ms.Rice and Ms. DuBoise which are all now close to our hearts. Scholars is ran closer to a private school environment without the tuition, I am so glad I had this option available at Lee St. I feel as though my child had no chance. At Scholars my son had concepts of multiplication where the students at Lee St. were still mastering number relations and addition.he is now reading chapter books leaving out of kindergarten while the students who attended the neighborhood school are still doing level one and pre-reading.
--Submitted by a parent