Batavia Elementary School

My grandson has been going to Batavia since kindergarten. He is in the 3^rd grade now. I love going to eat lunch there I can see why they are a top school. Reminds me of my days in elementary many many years ago.

This particular «Schools-​Public & Parochial» is actually Batavia Elementary School. I have updated the name on Unilocal,so hopefully the Unilocal staff verifies it so this school can get its proper due. My two oldest girls attend… and my wife and I could not be happier.
Before my oldest daughter started kindergarten, we were still living within the Cincinnati Public Schools District. Seeing as that school system is beyond helpless and ineffectual, we knew that we needed to get our daughter in one of the outlying school systems bordering the city’s limits. Batavia had high marks from the state Department of Education, so this was a huge motivator in our decision to move here.
Not one minute have we regretted it. BES has a phenomenal staff. The teachers, lunch workers, administrators, secretarial staff, custodians, and everybody else, are committed to doing the utmost best for the students. There’s a genuine care for these kids that you will not find in big city school. They encourage (and expect) the parents to be active participants in their children’s education. They are supportive, but not adverse to discipline when needed.
I cannot say enough good things about my kids’ teachers. Our oldest daughter had issues with her speech that everyone who came into contact with her realized. However, the state of Ohio refused to allow her into speech therapy because these is a policy that students can only get help if their «disability» (in this case my daughter’s speech) was having an adverse effect on their development. The problem here was my daughter kept scoring well above average on everything, and so the state said her academic development was progressing just fine, and there was no need for her to participate in speech therapy. This did not satisfy either her teacher or principle. They continuously brought her case before the school board and the state.
One day, our daughter got in trouble on the bus. The bus driver informed us that she had heard our daughter use the «N”-word repeatedly on the ride home. My wife and I were shocked. We have never used that word in our household and would never tolerate its use by our children. When we confronted our daughter she was extremely upset. She did not understand why the bus driver had yelled at her and gotten her in trouble. When we told her to tell us what word she had used we were shocked to hear her say that despicable word. She kept repeating it over and over, and finally started pointing to her feet as she said it. It was then that we realized she had been saying the word «sneaker.» Due to her speech impediment, it sounded exactly like the «N’-word.
We informed her teacher of this, who then immediately brought it to the school principle. Her argument was that even though our daughter’s speech was not affecting her academic development, it was already beginning to affect her social development. And because of that, it was the state’s responsibility to place our daughter in speech therapy. It worked. Two weeks later we were drafting up our daughter’s Individual Education Plan.
This is just one example of how wonderful BES is. Our kids have gotten the best teachers. Our children are learning so much, and loving every minute of it. I am proud to say I’m a parent of two Bulldogs!
Mahalo, and enjoy.