Eric Winters

Review of Tennyson Center for Children

We ve had a relationship with Tennyson for several...

We ve had a relationship with Tennyson for several years. Our son attended the Tennyson school this last year and he seemed to make progress. We met with his therapist frequently and she said he was making progress. I received a call on the Friday prior to the Monday start date from Rebecca D. (head of admissions) letting me know that my son wasn t going to be enrolled in the fall. I asked Rebecca to clarify, since school starts on Monday. She said a letter was sent out informing us of this months ago and that they had let DPS know at the same time. They did send us a letter but it was post marked August 12th, which is the same day they notified the school he wasn t going to be enrolled. I tried to get a straight answer from Rebecca, but she really wouldn t give much information. She said they had a recent change to their board and their values weren t in line with our values. I kept trying to get her to clarify by what she mean t by values and she would only say not a good fit. My partner and I are aware the Tennyson is a Christian school, but had been told that it shouldn t be a problem. Ultimately, we were able to get our son settled elsewhere, but Tennyson really soured us and caused some setbacks with our son s progress. I felt the school went out of it s way to punish our son because they didn t want same sex parents moral misconduct to hurt the school s reputation. Tennyson failed our son and want prospective parents to be aware of their current practices.