Life School Oak Cliff

Life School isnt a good choice for your children. I've been attending Life School for 3 years now. The first year was great, but i started to realize Life School cared about the Tally/Dresscode system more then the students education. Its not that the students are rude and disrepectful, we just think that we are to old to be getting tallies/dresscodes in highschool, and majority of our teachers now are substitutes. The only thing that is keeping me at Life School is the sports, cause Life School is all about sports! -Student of Life School-

My children have attended Life School Oak Cliff for three years now, they are all well mannered and very respectful children. I find that the tally system to be very silly! My youngest child has recieved several tallies for normal childhood behaviors such as skipping! We have to pay for our children to participate in sports, $75 per child! And we do not see where the money is going! Every sporting event we have to drive over an hour to get there while Life School Red Oak plays on their football field! Life School is a school operated by WHITE people getting rich off of our children! The children have to walk outside in the rain and cold to get to class, they even have to walk off campus to the lubias murry building unattended for classes! This school is by far a joke!
--Submitted by a parent

My child is enrolled in Kindergarten. I like his teachers and enjoy the bilingual program that this campus offers. The tallie system is insane and a bit excessive, especially for 5 year olds. I think the school is structured to "weed out" students that don't fit their pre-determined mold. I was NOT impressed with the principle. She has cold, uncaring and very rude! I won't say don't send you're child to LSOC but I will say be prepared for the rigidness.
--Submitted by a parent

The parents who posted Aug 7 & May 8 are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. The tallies Life gives out will drive you & your child crazy--& for the most ridiculous things! If your child blinks or breathes too hard in PE, he'll get a tally. Plus this place has set times that they wont release YOUR CHILD to YOU! This school promotes misery & stress--not joy, encouragement & progress. On his last day there my son complained that recess & lunch are the worst times of his day. They have some idiotic red light system & the children cannot talk at all while the red light is on. I went to eat lunch with him. Why was the red light on 90% of the time?? These ppl are lunatics. They want children to be seen and not heard AT ALL at this school. TERRIBLE CHOICE!
--Submitted by a parent

RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!The Life School Oak Cliff campus is a horrible choice of schools. This campus did not meet its standards academically. Most teachers parent concerned with the students education. More focus is put on behavior. Most behavioral issues are petty ones and should not even be addressed. In the event that your child doesn't bring lunch, they will let the child go hungry and call to tell you later. NOT A GOOD CHOICE!
--Submitted by a parent

If you want your child to be encouraged & continue to be happy ---> this is not the school..The Tally System controls this school and the teachers. Please go and observe your child in class every chance you get its very important...My child is no longer there after being in Kindergarten for the Fall Semester , he is much happier and so are we....
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My daughter has gone to Life for two years now and I am very please. I like the discipline structire, encouraged parent involvement and what the kids doing and learning.
--Submitted by a parent

If you are going to consider the school please look at every area very closely. I was disappointed that my child that is now an 8th grader was behind in his reading and writing. Therefore, for the parents that is maybe in denial please check look into for yourself you may see it different. I will say that if you are going to consider Life School look at Red Oak.......
--Submitted by a parent

When reading these reviews please take into account what type of child you have and compare that to the type of child the parent that is writing the review has. I have a child at the school who is VERY well behaved and I LOVE the tally system. That is because I taught my child appropriate behavior at home. The parents that complain about the tally system (nine times out of ten) have horribly behaved children. I personally know a lot of the teachers at the school and the students EARN the tallies they receive they are not GIVEN. The only thing I do not like about the school is that they don't have any extra curricular activities for the lower grades. Other than that my child is doing wonderfully. To sum it all up in layman's terms...if you child is bad this is not the school for you.
--Submitted by a parent

Like school Oak Cliff has dropped significantly since opening their Red Oak Campus. I do not feel that the children are receiving the quality of teaching that they once had. Life School can be a great charter school if they would focus more on the academic level heavy, rather than how many tallies a child gets. It was a time when the teachers at Life were wonderful and interested in the children now I feel that they are no different than a teacher in the public school system. Charter schools were creted to allow different methods of learning out side of the municipal ran public school districts and I feel that Life has gotten out of that focus.
--Submitted by a parent