We enrolled our daughter at Mt. Phoenix. They promised bus
transport from Wheat Ridge to the Coal Creek Canyon Campus, we thought,
this is good. Then they told the eighth graders no ball point pens were
used & no media presentations would be used in the classroom, we
thought, that s odd. On the first day of school, there was no bus and
no notification that five students would be jammed into a teacher's
Buick, we thought, What s going on here? Then, our child and her best
friend were repeatedly bullied. The teacher and principle told us it was
my child s fault, we said, Enough! This is a little school in a
remote canyon that operates on its own set of rules. I m sorry but I
thought that when funded by tax payers, the school had to be worthy of
that support! In our opinion, Mt. Phoenix is failing in that mission.
Our child was suspended AFTER the October student count. I looked for
another school. Everything was infinitely better once we found out about
Alpine Valley School. This is best kept secret in Wheat Ridge. For us
it was the only logical choice. If you haven t considered this option,
you owe it to your child to look into this unique educational
alternative!
WORST SCHOOL EVER! We were so traumatized by our experience with this so called school. 12 people that I know of also left this school of 60. Quite a significant percentage.
I had my grandsons there, the first year, they were
wonderful and truly wanted to help them and help them become the best
they could be. The following year after a admin change, they changed
drastically. They no longer seemed to care about the children as much.
Seemed more interested in who brought the money with them. One of the
upper grads teacher actually lied to and about me and had me removed
from the games day. One of my grandson was being terribly abused and
all I heard from them was "well, you don't know the whole story" and
that was after I was on the playground for recess every day. There are
other people who feel the way I do. They are back in the public school
and are doing good. But because the education at this school was not up
to par, they are behind and the new teachers are trying and doing a good
job. I would not recommend this school.
