St. Juliana School

My children have been going here for quite a few years, and I am constantly amazed at the lack of Christian attitude at this Catholics/Christian school. There is absolutely no customer service,and parents are treated as a problem rather than a customer. I hope they change their attitudes soon and realize there is more to life than how great St. Juliana's was....they should be worried about what St. Juliana IS!
—Submitted by a parent

I'm in Eight Grade there now. This school is great up until Junior High, the warm feeling of being in st. juliana is great. The Extracurricular Activities are great. But when you get into Junior High, FORGET ABOUT IT! The sexist (against boys!) teachers in Junior High are ridiculous! If anyone says anything about girls they get a 15 minute-long lecture about sexism and how it's wrong to say anything about girls but if they say something about boys that's okay! I hate Junior High at St. Juliana. Almost everyday, I get in trouble for saying something to a girl, like how they wear uggs just to show off or something, then get a detention for it?!?!?!?!! Then, the girls get a lecture about how they shouldn't let men control them. And, the teachers in Junior High are extremely strict, if you don't do one problem on an assignment you have to stay for a half an hour after school!!! And the Junior High teachers MAKE JUDGEMENTS IN THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR that jeopardize your grade for the rest of the year! If you are the joker or the cool kid, you get ripped on by teachers nonstop until the end of the year!

I think St Juliana needs to change their reading program. Speaking from experience with my son, it did not foster a love of reading in him nor did it help his reading and comprehension skills. I remember taking him to the library to pick out a book that was on the required reading list so he could take a computer test to grade his reading skills. They had to reach a number of points from these child/computer tests to get a grade in reading. He was in one area of the library looking at books that interest him and I was pulling him to the section where the school book list was so he could make the requirements. I think that he would have benefitted much more if he could have picked out a book that he liked and written a book report on it.
—Submitted by a parent

my kids are in 8th grade and have been at julianas since 5th grade the education is the best on the north side and the principal and teachers are the best my kids enjoy going to school every day when i drop them off in the morning i know they are in good hands
—Submitted by a parent

my kids are in 7th grade and love their school and friends , education is the best in the area,the kids are responsible for all there actions and my kids are happy every day unlike there old school what a difference, many parents help out with everything and I think they and the school board are doing very well along with the front office
—Submitted by a parent

Usually, I benefitted from this system of grading as I was well-respected by teachers, but I feel the system was unfair. It taught me that I could through high school by impressing my teachers early on and skimping on work later. And I had many friends who did not benefit from this grading system and went the rest of their high school careers believing that they would always be C students no matter how much effort they put in and, thus, often just settled for C's. However, this school did have some things going for it. Service opportunities here are great, especially once you enter junior high, if you choose to take advantage of them. Some teachers were brilliant instructors and I still hold them close to my heart. There are several very motivating and inspiring scholarships, too, in junior high, like the Katie Gavin Award.
—Submitted by a student