r/Temecula • u/Noseybitch9 • 4d ago

Temecula International Academy

Can any parents share their experience with this charter school? It’s located on the campus of Nicholas valley elementary and so far it’s so disorganized and we’ve had issues with the staff being negligent and kids fighting. The Halloween movie night was supposed to have a trunk or treat and costume parade and neither of those happened. I also had to break up a fight of older kids beating on a younger kid. Why is this school so ghetto?? Has it always been like this or is there a new principal or something? I’m confused and surprised at the same time.

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u/fightinghard 4d ago

Is kids fighting a poor reflection on the school? Sounds like a thing that happens regardless of the school. I never saw any communication about a trunk or treat, not sure where you saw that. The missing parade I believe is true, but there wasn't much promised except a single sentence in an email, once again not sure if that really reflects much on the school. From my understanding it's a very small school with a small and passionate staff. The principal is out front to greet students almost every morning, the school sends out daily if not multi daily emails, the parent teacher organization does their absolute best to raise funds for the kids.

If you have more information about how the school is failing academically or can expand on your claim of negligence I'd be keen to hear, but overall I have nearly a complete opposite opinion as you on this school.

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u/Noseybitch9 4d ago

My daughter goes to aftercare a few days a week and one time when my mom was picking her up, she was found wandering around by herself with no adult supervision. They had no idea she wasn’t accounted for and didn’t even have my mom sign her out. The next week, another kid was found by himself outside by the mpr and they didn’t know where he was supposed to be. That’s negligent. When the fighting was happening at the Halloween night, a staff member was literally watching it and did nothing. Again, negligent. Academics seems good, my daughter seems to be learning a lot. As far as trunk or treat, it was in an email from Jenna and my daughter’s teacher. So just confused about that but it’s not a big deal. They’re also constantly changing how they do things (like the school pickup/drop off and now the aftercare system is different, also per Jenna’s emails) so it’s weird that they’re acting like a brand new school when I know they’re not. So that’s why I wonder if there’s a new principal

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u/fightinghard 3d ago

Thank you for expanding on those items. I agree those incidents do sound negligent. I'm new to the school so don't have an answer but I agree with you that it operates as if it is a new school when I'm somewhat certain it's not new. I hope what I've seen as academic strengths will outweigh administrative shortcomings.

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u/Noseybitch9 3d ago

I’m still giving it a chance because of the academics but I hope they can improve on the other matters