I am very turn off by this school. We moved from the bay area due to my husbands work and the demand for chemist in this area and ended up enrolling our kids to Empire Elementary school. In the past two years they have had numerous principal and vice principals, all which do very little to solve any issues and concerns parent may have when it come to kids. I've had issues with yard duty trying to play a role of principal, picking on my 8 yr. old for his mohawk to the point that my son did not want to go to school. Left messages for the principal or vice principal to contact me with no avail. The gates to kinder garten section of the school are supposed to open by 1:25 and like always the yard duty is extremely late and rude. Last year one of the yard duty ladies called my 10 yr. old stupid and like always the school did nothing to repremend her actions.I have witness a teacher jerking a 5 yrs ol child and then trying to play it off when she noticed I witness this. Some teachers are great but they have some teachers that should have never gotten in the teaching industry to begin with. The only person that I am very content with is Yolanda, one of the secretaries. She tries her to best to be helpful and is always polite, unlike most of the staff in that school. Now I'm looking into trasferring my children to a different school in hopes that they have a better experience.
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