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As a parent, enjoy GBCS and am willing to make the financial sacrafice for the tuition. My son will be entering the 3rd grade in the fall. I am very satisfied with the extra curricular activities. I feel like the school makes efforts to keep the programs affordable and there is a good amount to choose from. Compared to public school where I feel my child learned nothing, I found the curriculum challenging. Some of the ways his teacher graded for the second grade I thought was hard for a 7 yr old but the push for excellence was there. I also found his teacher very interested and caring about his well-being and often called, e-mailed or sent some sort of message when she had concerns. I am glad the school goes up to the 12th grade. I plan on keeping him until he graduates high schoo.
If parents are considering summer camp I would not reccomend Grace Brethren Christian School. The staff and program is unorganized. They will collect your tuition without having camp materials available for camper. The school facilities need updating and the school should hire counselors and assistants who are qualified and shows attentiveness towards the campers and their surroundings. I find it hard to consider GBCS as a school for my child to attend.
After reading previous years reviews, it is disappointing to read that in 2009 concerns are repeats from previous years and still unresolved. Grace Brethren has the potential to be a wonderful school if the priority is switched back to educating students first. Rules are enforced haphazardly with little consideration for students. Most of the people are very nice, but niceness does not prepare a student for college. Some teachers are more experienced than others which is a disadvantage to the student. More staff and faculty should reflect the demographics of the student body so that no child will be left behind.
After seeing that most reviews are from previous years, I felt compelled to write a more current review. My son has been in attendance at Grace since elementary school. I have witnessed significant changes in the quality and professionalism of the administration and teaching staff. I have also witnessed the transformation of the school from a caring, nurturing, and disciplined environment to a unreasonably strict, rigid, inflexible, legalistic, and somewhat institutionalized environment. Further, the lack of diversity is a major issue, primarily because the staff at the school do not seem to know how (nor have an interesting in learning how) to deal with children from various ethnic backgrounds. Parental involvement seems to only be welcome to help raise funds for the school. If the Administration does not make significant changes, enrollment will continue to drop, and not because of the recession and bad economy.
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