I have not been to many schools in your company/school board. But from Lakeview I will be describing my experience. I am a parent with kids that go to the school.
In 2011-2012 it was great all the teachers were nice and more importantly the principal, Mrs. Kurkura was too. This past school year was horrible I hate it. The reason to this is the principal, Mr. Girodat. (If that is how you spell it correctly)
There was confusion with the grade placement. Many students and their parents were upset. Of course not knowing what a jerk that man was I made the mistake of asking nicely. That man deserves NO respect. He basically shooed me out the door and just straight out said no to my face.
This doesn't only happen to parents but to the students too. A girl once told me, "Respect is for those who deserve it not who demand it."
He tells the whole school to respect him when he doesn't even respect anyone. There was a bullying problem in the school and the principal got called by my daughter's friends, they wanted to talk to him about it. Because he had only listened to one girl's side of the story. He didn't even care he was checking his watching waiting for them to be finished and didn't even do anything about it.
They talk about responsibility when the man running the school is so careless. A girl got hurt and when there parents came to pick her up he didn't even check if they were her parents.
One grade five and six teacher lies to the principal to get what she wants. She told them that they were getting an IPAD. She told the principal that they were going to use it for inquiry and the whole class could use it as well. Turns out she keeps it at home, none of the students get to use not even touch since she got it and she has broken it. There is a crack in the screen.
Here is a very frustrating problem. The students get in trouble if they use right staircase, which is the one that leads into the office. But there is a boy and he is going to stay unnamed but he is the worst. Each week since he got here he has missed at least one day of school by doing something wrong. These things include, throwing rocks at people, swearing, punching, basically hurting as many people as he can. My daughter had rocks thrown at her eyes. He stole the principal's phone swore at him and threw his phone in the garbage. He supposedly brought weed to school. Also he stole things from people's desks. One of these things were my daughter's 30$ flash drive. He is the worst kid in school, and he is allowed in there. What are they waiting for, for him to kill someone, or until he injures or paralyzes them. It's too late then. They don't even do anything to him. They TALK to him. What is that going to do. Nothing. He has been spoken to so many times and nothing has changed. A girl stole three lollipops and got in even bigger trouble than that boy.
THIS SCHOOL IS GOING PLUMMETING TO THE GROUND. No one wants to go to it. I was about to switch schools but they were all filled up.