The cottage school Reviews

Parents, DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILDREN HERE.
I went to the Cottage Middle School when I first moved here in 2003. Every day, my parents had to pull me out of bed and MAKE me go to school. This school systematically discourages any displays of individualism at an age when kids are trying to find out who they are. Shirt tucked in, no music or television that is not approved, no band t-shirts. These simple things could have made my experience better and given me an outlet, but Jackie and Joe forbade it.

I could have forgiven them for that, but I will NEVER forgive them for the so-called "levels meetings" that they have each week, where defenseless children stand there helplessly as teachers and students pick at them, pointing out every last perceived character flaw. Children would leave these criticism sessions in tears, and they would often go on for thirty minutes or more. Keep in mind that these "levels meetings" are similar to tactics employed in REEDUCATION CAMPS IN NORTH KOREA.

If that is not enough to convince you, know that I came into TCS a bright, fun loving child who carried sunshine with him everywhere he went. I came out a sullen, hopeless, socially isolated individual and needed two years of home schooling to repair the damage, but the scars inflicted by this institution remain.

I write this knowing that the administrators of this page will most likely hide this post or delete it. I don't care, it needed to be said. I went to this place ten years ago, and am still socially isolated and sullen thanks to the tactics employed by this prison that masquerades as a school.

You all should be ashamed of yourselves.

TCS has a great, nurturing, fun, educational environment. This is my son s 2nd year and he s improved so much both academically and socially. The system works!

The Cottage School is great, and loving environment. Students at this school are successful, and they show courage to do great things. The leveling system, is a great thing for students, because it shows that they're hardworking and helpful students. Going up in front of students helps you as a person give speeches in the future. Another thing is that you call them by their first name, which will help you in the future, and in the job world. I just love the stimulating environment, and the resources this school offers. :D

I went here and the school is fantastic. Most negative reviews are based on the fact that this is a school and school makes you work. The dress code is incredibly lax and a majority of the teachers are fantastic.

The aspiring adults I've met here are so phenomenally influential to our well being as people in general. Some students grasp a more immediate concept of sociological interaction than most of us dare to understand. Thank you, kids...

Decent. Some things are little odd in terms of the policies (i.e., dress code) and the school is sometimes bad about giving information about what's going on behind the scenes. Other than that it's a great school that prepares kids for the world.

The concession stand didn t have little umbrellas for my drink. Terrible service smh

We have nothing but good things to say about The Cottage School. Our son started here as a freshmen. He had been in a Catholic school from kindergarten through eighth grade. We started having problems during middle school with his grades. We met with teachers, we had tutoring, brain training. You name it, we tried it. Teachers told us "he can do it he's just lazy". Turns out he wasn't "lazy". He has some "gaps" that need to be work on. When he started TCS he was a depressed kid who thought he was (in his words) "stupid". After the first few weeks of being a student at Cottage his and our whole world changed. When I say changed I mean CHANGED!!! Our son took ownership of his classes, homework, test, schedule, you name it. When we would ask him about his homework he would reply "I got this". He went from a struggling student to successful one. He had always played soccer and fit right in with the schools team. The AD asked if he was going to tryout for basketball. He was not a basketball player but tried out anyway. He made the varsity team as a freshman and basketball is now his favorite sport. He has been challenged at TCS both academically and physically. The Cottage School gave us our son back! (And as I type that I CRY). Thank you Cottage you will always be in our hearts!!

This Is a Great School. The Levels System Helps Me. Teachers Are Very Good. To Get Promoted To a Level, On Every Friday in the Middle School and every other Friday in the High School you have to go up in front of your friends and teachers to ask for feedback. If Your Homeroom teacher supports you, you get the promotion and If your homeroom teacher doesn't support you, you don't get the promotion.

I would've expected a The Cottage School to receive just as much TLC as the excellent Mill Springs Academy, but TCS comes up far short. Instead of an adventure filled with stimulating curriculum, we've got a bare-bones and lifeless attempt at what could best be described as an incredibly half-hearted school for kids with learning disabilities.There's nothing wrong with deviating from the typical schooling method (exploration, building, tons of unlockable curriculum, etc) as long as you do something good with it. Instead, we've got a clunky classroom environment that makes moving and learning much harder than it should be and extremely basic classwork. Each class boils down to a state enforced benchmark chase with incredibly bland content and ridiculously simple worksheets. The Cottage School is an uninteresting and soulless school in an otherwise charming town. This poor attempt at an establishment of alternative learning is clumsy to interact with, overly simplistic to work in, and lacks the usual charming teacher-student interactions. Even morbid curiosity isn't enough of a reason to bother forking over 30k a year for this school.

3.0/10 - Langston Jabardi of IGN