I first wanted to make sure that you are aware that I am a teacher that used to be part of the Crossway Community Montessori Charter School. I do not want my name to be made publicly. I also want to thank you for this page, it has been a long time and there were so many times that I wanted to voice my concerns to the women about how the school was being ran. But I just could not. I was told not to talk or become close to the women that lived in crossway FLA program. Even worse I was not allowed to talk to some of the outside parents. I just could not understand why, here I am, a very educated teacher that knows better to allow myself to be shamed, manipulated, or worse, bullied; by the very same staff that made me believe in the program in the first place. I still feel the hurt and pain that I went through during my time teaching at the school between 2013-2014. I came to work and teach at Crossway Community because I believed in their program and what they represented, I wanted to be apart of a community and I was happy to have found it, until I started to notice so many unethical manners by the staff and I am sadden to say, some teachers as well, which I will not name. I wanted to believe that this was the correct way, but deep down, I know I was deceived. I can't go into so much details but I will confirm some incidents. When children that were very active were separated and isolated. I was told by the head of school to put those kids in the bathroom and leave them there until they learn to calm down. I was stunned when she said this to me. The upsetting part of all of this, was that she found so many ways to make me believe and feel that it was OK, and I should not feel bad. But I did feel bad. I have forgiven myself and will never allow myself to be influenced in such an ill manner. I was never allowed to create or do any form of assessment on any of the children I was working with. Again; Head of the teacher informed me that she will be taking care of this but I know it was never done. I was told that some parents believed by others teachers that their child was part of the charter school and never was. It was a nightmare to lie to the parents of the children that I cared about. I just prayed to get through the year and run as far as I could. I will also inform that I had question why we teachers were not able to communicate with the charter school teachers. The administration stressed so much silence from not only us teachers but the women as well. I would ask, what do they have to hide?. Then I started talking, and other teachers started talking as well, and we started to realized why they wanted us to remain quiet and loyal. We noticed how much lies were told to us and what the school said they would be doing to provide help and service to so many teachers that were not only false, it was also violating county laws, such as children/teacher out ratio, or that we have not being following Charter policies because of following Crossway rules before doing the right thing. I will confirm that a this school did not follow the Montessori Method to a great extent . The staff always wanted to blame the teachers, women and worse, THE CHILDREN. I was just appalled by all that was going on, I dreaded coming to work and seeing the staff. I could not believe what I was seeing or hearing. I have never worked for such wickedness as I witnessed from this school managed by the staff. I even invested money in the school because the classes that I worked for was just awful. I did it because I truly wanted to believe. I understand why women fear to speak up, women fear their worst enemy. Themselves being treated like a victim, or admitting they are being taken advantage of. Worst feeling to just submit to this kind of situation. I want others to know that this school has absolutely no intentions on making this school a great school, that they care less on kids educations and for the price that most parents pay, they do the minimum. I will also say that any good teacher and moral teacher, will never last long at Crossway Community. How can any good person stay in a negative environment. I would like to add that I believe that the CEO may have mental issues or suffer a bipolar disorder, I had analyzed her many times and I truly will never support any program she may be apart of. Something about the CEO and wanting to force control on everyone. She is not a nice person. In face, the CEO is a really awful person. I wanted to add about their festival, I not only thought that it was silly to charge $20.00 to parents and their quest, but to charge the teachers to attend an event that they clearly needed us to be there is just out right deceiving. I moved forward and try to pray about the women and children that live in crossway. I want them to know that I support you always.
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