PAIDEIA ACADEMY SOUTHSIDE CAMPUS IS HORRIBLE!
I choose Paideia Academy Southside campus because all the public schools were closing and I thought they would be better, but it turned out to be worse. I had a kid in the kindergarten and in the 8th grade. The kindergarten teacher was good but (she left )and my kid didn't learn anything else after that. My older kid transferred from public school with good grades and started getting bad grades at Paideia.
So I go the school to see why, I sat in the back of the classroom to obeserve, the teacher just sat at the desk and talked to another teacher the whole hour. The kids sat in groups and just laughed and played, walked around. A student even got up to leave and came back in the room with shorts on. The teacher would get up sometimes and say work on your projects. But she was not teaching anything. The students were loud and rowdy and the teacher did not tell the kids to sit down. I went to the office to talk to the principal but he wasn't there, so I had to leave a message, for him to call me later. He called me later and told me the reason why the class was unruly was because he wasn't there, and he apologized for the situation. My kid got an A on the next report, but how could he go from an F to an A, come on now. How are you grading students if there's no teaching going on. They are just passing and failing students they don't care. They don't even have books, everybody had to share a book (The principal left after that year)
The secretay is rude, fat and lazy, if you call and ask her something, she acts like she doesn't know anything. I've come up to the school on many ocassions and she doesn't want to move her fat butt from the desk. She didn't want to make a copy for me, just lazy.
Paideia Academy is horribe, the owners are just getting rich off our kids and not teaching them anything. Please close it down ASAP!
