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Parent Reviews (9 reviews)
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Despite the concerned remarks about blended K below, I found the school welcoming to my son who was a special needs child in thus program from 2008-09. Sadly the program has been discontinued due to a 'new special ed model' in Seattle Schools. This is tragic for many children who like my son can benefit from a bridge year with smaller class sizes and an understanding teacher. Ms. Newman, formerly blended K teacher, luckily stays on at Bryant in the resource room. She is exceptional and I have high hopes for 1st grade at Bryant too.
We have been extremely happy with Bryant Elementary. It is a big school with all of the benefits this entails--strong art, music and other enrichment programs. However, the school has such a strong sense of community that the children experience the environment as they might in a much smaller school.
We've been searching for a kindergarten for our child who has some mild developmental delays (speech, fine/gross motor skills, dyspraxia) and thought of the blended kindergarten here because of the small class size. The vibe that I got, though I couldn't put my finger on it at the time, is that Bryant actually doesn't like having a blended kindergarten because it would rather deal with high achieving kids (typically developed, that is) in order to maintain its aura of 'greatness.' I was told that if my kid did not catch up after kindergarten (a 'riser' they call it), she would have to attend first grade somewhere else because Bryant just doesn't have the resources to deal with these kinds of kids. How nice is that?
Bryant was a wonderful school for my children. The teachers are willing to work with a child who may be struggling. They take parents' requests seriously. Like any school setting, the parents need to be assertive in letting the teachers or principal know exactly what they expect.
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