Public | PK-4 | 646 students |
PHONE: (970) 384-5800
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This school has amazing teachers, staff and students! The teachers are knowledgable, excited about teaching, fun and enthusiastic. The staff has always been extremely helpful whenever I have a question or need assistance. HOWEVER the principal and the school board... apparently would like to change all these great features of the school. What kind of person YELLS at kindergardeners for being late? WHOSE FAULT IS IT THAT THEY ARE LATE? yell at the parents.. not the child!! What kind of person does not return phone calls, emails or messages left in person? Is that because we, as parents, are interruptions to your day?!?! Serioulsy bad principal... staff and teachers awesome!! The school is a 5 star!! But the principal does not even rate!
I feel the white children that can read and write and know how to add are the ones that are following behind because we cater to the Hispanics. We have more classes in "bilingual" a glorified ESL than we do have traditional classes.
What is going on in that school? Good staff and well behaved kids.Unfortunately the principals missleading has ruined a school with a great potencial and the worst thing is that the district seems not to care!!!!
If nothing else, a great school should inspire excitement about learning. In this sense, Basalt Elementary failed miserably for my kindergartner. He dreaded school, only enjoying "computers, phy-ed, and Spanish"--not math, reading, writing, or anything else about the school--he had become listless! Agonized, and feeling patronized by the Principal, who literally winked at me in response to my concerns, I moved him to a nearby public charter school where the difference was extraordinary--he couldn't wait to go to school, came home daily bursting with excitement about science, math, reading--as well as phy-ed, Spanish, etc. (and scored in the 90th percentile in all subjects in this, his second year). It seems Basalt works for some of my friends' kids--maybe it depends on the teacher/classmates they get and whether that teacher works for their learning style. But if it doesn't work, there is little recourse--the school is large and impersonal and the Principal is overwhelmed. The best things I can say about it are the involvement of the Parent (PIE) group and the bilingual program for teaching Spanish to English-speakers.
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