Jessica Castro

Review of Orange County Preparatory Acad...

Horrid school! I came from Oviedo which has grade ...

Horrid school! I came from Oviedo which has grade A schools thinking that a charter school who preachers about STEM being a huge focus, it was a bunch of crock. The Principle never returned my emails or calls EVER and I wasn't rude or unprofessional, I just wanted to raise my concerns about my sons experience and his teachers lack of communication skills with the parents. Nope, never bothered to contact me. My son has a focus issue so he needs extra time to finish his assignments. I did not get a meeting with the guidance counselor until the first week of November in which I later found out my son was being spent to other class rooms as a punishment for not focusing on his work. Sometimes to a grade lower sometimes to a grade higher and when I found out, my son verified it was true and he said it was always for an hour. So my son was sitting in other grades classes rooms learning nothing for 1 hour out of the days when he wouldn't finish his school work. His teacher was a huge mess. He didn't seem like he was organized and had a hard time expressing himself to me when I would ask him about homework and classroom assignments so I could only imagine how the kids couldn't understand him either. Many parents have removed their kids from this school already and we are in November. Many children have also been tested by their new schools and have been told that they are academically behind. One child has to now take 2 math classes in order to move onto middle school. One child was pinned down during P.E. by a bully and no adults were around to see it. My son witnessed bullies in his classroom picking on other kids and said his teacher wouldn't do anything. The classrooms are VERY VERY TINY. It feels like sardines in a can. The walls are plain. There is nothing appealing about this school for children. No colors anywhere and a play ground that's for toddlers only. The parents were extremely rude during the drop off line which is another hot mess. I witnessed a mom screaming at the top of her lungs at her son which made all the kids stop and stare at him. She was pushing him and hitting him in front of the kids and the aftercare girls didn't really know how to handle the situation. The entire experience was a complete nightmare!!!! STAY AWAY FROM THIS SCHOOL!!! Seminole county Oviedo school are a thousand times much more organized, caring, proactive, involved than this school. Just stay away, stay FAR FAR AWAY!!