Hunters Woods Elementary School

Posted September 23, 2009

My son just started first grade here in HW. He got there through the magnet lottery but I'm so disappointed. The level of education is so ridiculously low. All they do in the class is coloring and a little bit of writing. So far he hasn't brought any homework and already complained to me that the school is too easy. When I asked teacher about the math curriculum I was told that they're supposed to be counting to 100. Isn't what they were doing in kindergarten? BTW, all 1st graders are together with the kindergarteners. I know it must be different for the GT kids and parents. My advise; keep your children at your home school, don't go to HW unless your child is accepted to GT.
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Posted April 5, 2009

We were happy with our child's previous language-immersion school, so we had a difficult time to decide to transfer to the HWES GT program. We are extremely happy now that we did. The school is a magnet school as well, so it has curriculumns and programs that other school don't have. The staff and teacher are all reponsive. After-school programs are well planned, too. My child is not only learning but having her use mutilple methods keep her thinking and she says she doesn't have time to day-dream anymore!
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Posted June 18, 2007

My son started at Hunter's woods GT program in 3rd grade. In the 3 yrs that he was a student I was not impressed at all. We stayed in the GT program only because of the curriculum which is better than a non-GT school. I was impressed with one teacher, Mr Adams who teaches 5th grade. He is very sincere and dedicated. The principal Ms. Totley is a poor speaker with a poor memory. Admission of kids in the GT program who come in after 3rd grade is questionable. The entire GT qualification at this school is questionable.
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Posted March 1, 2006

Parental involvment at this school os great! The extracurricular activities that are offered are fantastic as well. All of these things really impressed me when my daughter started attending 3 years ago. I have since noticed that some of the teachers at the school are very poor at keeping open the lines of communication with the parents. Some of the teachers will not return phone calls or emails. This has become very frustrating. It seems to me that if you are a working parent and can not be in the school during the school day, you are looked upon as an uninvolved disinterested parent.
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