Public | 1-4 | 507 students |
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As long as you make large donations your child will be permitted to bully other children without recourse. Even with numerous reports to staff, bullying continues to be tolerated by the principle, counselor, teachers and play ground supervisors. This is no longer the school to get into. It has grown wildly out of control. For a culturally diverse school it fails in every aspect to realize that we are culturslly diverse and not all RICH. So if you let your child have whatever they want and don't believe in respecting others because they don't have the latest apple gadget. ADA. Vista is the school for you. Do not expect the great rating to stay as more and more parents are negatively talking about the leadership and quality and care of children when they are so vulnerable at this age.
Our son has been bullied severely(mostly verbally and a few times phsically) for three years at this school. The staff is well aware of who the bully's and still fail to act or enter any disciplinary action against these students. In a sense, they are now encouraging this type of behavior due to their lack of responsiveness to this growing problem. Please post your comments so sr. Santillian and sra. whittland start taking this seriously.
I do not think this school is good at all. This school has very young inexperienced teachers pulled from a tiny pool of possible candidates, lacks normal safety procedures, and only meets standards by virtue of parent interventions. Everyone cheerleads the program without examining what is really going on. There are MANY problems here that need to be addressed. But the leadership does not self-reflect, rather boasts a level of excellence that is NOT there. The quality of education is low. Parent effort (teaching their children at home since they aren't allowed in the classroom if they don't speak spanish) is what makes the program work on paper.
Acceptance of diversity is emphasized. It is a Spanish Immersion school where children learn the language at an age when they can acquire the language quickly, without a foreign accent and before English is introduced in the classroom. The school is more than a school, it is a family with the children's best interests in mind. The teachers are of high quality, enthusiastic and work tirelessly. The teachers' aides are native Spanish speakers with backgrounds from different parts of the world. The Principle is also a native Speaker with a very hands-on approach and open door policy. The PTO is very active and very successful in making ends meet. The parents are very much involved. And the students perform very well in BOTH English and Spanish! Actually, they perform above average!
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