Squaw Valley Academy Bay Area

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Address:
3090 Independence Drive, Livermore, CA 94551
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Website:
svabay.org

Phone number:
+1 925-278-6355

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Reviews about Squaw Valley Academy Bay Area

• Zelda Smith

  Jul, 10 2018
  ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
  This school is poorly managed, financially unstable, disorganized, and academically weak. The poor management is due to the principal's leadership being vision-less, opaque, top-down, disorganized, and not looking for faculty/staff input. Quite the contrary, the principal only wants faculty/staff to rubber stamp his gut feelings, and he fires/bullies/censors those faculty/staff/students who have independent thinking. The student newspaper was regularly censored when the students questioned school policies. The principal is so paranoid of bad press that he doesn't post his own or any teacher/staff biography on the school website. There are many students with learning differences, behaviorial problems, ESL learners that the students are below average grade level, but some teachers still assign almost every student an A grade because those teachers want to be popular among the students. On the one hand, students are discouraged from taking on legitimate academic challenges; on the other hand, students are rarely punished for cheating or for plagiarism. The principal is dishonest, disorganized, and arbitrary in his own discussion and enforcement of the rules: he hires and excuses his cronies when they break rules; but he lies about and fabricates causes for firing teachers/staff who question his decisions. The school has regular money problems: teachers take out their own trash; the school cannot afford textbooks or computers for students; bills to utilities and to AP training services go unpaid for months; there are none of the following: library/gymnasium/theater/assembly room. Big changes to the academic schedule, to faculty hiring, to field trip announcements are all made at the last minute. The principal is entirely reactive and lacks the ability to plan even two weeks ahead, let alone to have a school-wide and academic vision (way too high falutin' for this principal). High faculty, staff, and student turnover.

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