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B.F. Norton Elementary School
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This school has excellent dedicated teachers, but desperately lacks parental involvment. It has a small but active and passionate PTO. It's members (about 10 parents) take on the responsibility of doing everything extra at the school. If we had more parental involvment, this school would thrive. Teaching begins at home and it is clear that in most cases, this does not happen at this school. Not just academically, but morally either. This is a wonderful developing school, and with the help of parents (as it is their first responsibility to teach their own children) would be a top 10 school as well as the other Cumberland schools.
My daughter just finished the first grade at BF Norton. I have to say, she is advanced in her reading and her teacher went the extra mile to make sure she was challenged each and every day. She was able to attend an upper grade class for her studies. They were very accomodating to her needs. She came from that school even more advanced in reading then when she started. I have nothing but great things to say about the teachers that I have met and their commitment to the students. Any child lucky enough to be in this school's district will excel with the help of BF Norton's fine teachers. We are looking forward to her four more years at this school and my other daughter's upcoming five years.
I worked the YMCA after-school program at the BF Norton school for 5 yrs and I have to say that the staff at the school were wonderful. I saw how the teachers interacted with each other (professionally) and how they interacted with the students. They care so much about their school and what is going on. Alot of school teachers are out the door as soon as the bell rings and the students leave, but there were many times as I was leaving at 6 PM to go home, some of the teachers were still in their classes preparing for the next day. Mrs. Desjardins did a wonderful job as pricipal and knew each and every one of her students and did what she could to make everyone happy.
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