St Anthony’s School

If you are thinking of sending your child to St Anthony of Padua school to shelter them and to have them be taught good morals, you should look elsewhere. Sadly, my children were told shocking things by other students. My daughter, in 3^rd grade, was told another student in her class wanted to have sex with her. My 7^th grader heard homophobic slurs, obscenities, cuss words, racial insults, was harassed constantly by boys and was hit by another student. I reported all of this to the teacher and principal. It wasn’t taken as seriously as I would like (no suspension whatsoever by the perpetrator). Expelled kids from public school are welcomed to this school and will then misbehave and pollute the «good kids» environment. Since leaving, I have found public school to have better behavior and zero tolerance for bullying. A mother who was arrested for child endangerment and spousal abuse was allowed to continue being a volleyball coach and the principal refused to consider multiple notes sent to her by different parents because they were «anonymous». A simple google search revealed the arrest date of the parent and cleared up if it was a rumor or not! Children’s safety isn’t the priority, but rather if a note is signed?! The principal tells parents about other parents being behind in their tuition payments (no confidentiality). The principal also told a parent that my child was only ‘nice to her child’s face’… puzzling when she doesn’t even speak to my child, so how would she know how she feels?! And even if she did know how my child felt, why would she say such a horrible thing to a parent?! The principals own daughter who was a teacher left! I can go on and on and on about all the bad things that happened but I think you get the idea. Save your money and find a good public school, charter school, or home school is what I would suggest. Just because a school is private/​religious doesn’t mean you will have your child surrounded by good morals and upstanding people. Quite the opposite was my experience in far too many instances to recommend anyone send their kid here!
Update 11÷20÷15: The school complained about my review. I stand by it 100%. Don’t like my review? Then don’t treat good families who volunteer and give to the school like this and open your arms to the horrible kids and deadbeat parents!

Good school. Great staff.
Fellow parents a message out there can we all just be civil on the parking lot and obey all rules Please.