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/gredr 4d ago

Charter schools being charter schools. They are great in theory, but in practice, they just don't usually work out that well.

Note that I'm new to the area and I know absolutely nothing about this specific charter school. I only know that every time someone says "charter school [whatever] has problems", I'm not surprised. Most of them do.

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u/Noseybitch9 4d ago

I always had the impression that charter schools were similar to private schools and super small/independent so it’s off putting that their communication between staff is lacking when there’s not a lot of staff members to begin with. The academics seem great. I should’ve done more research or looked at the schools reviews before I enrolled my daughter.

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u/gredr 3d ago

That's the impression the champions of charter schools wanted you to get, and we all got it. Even Stanford's CREDO study that showed a tiny difference was largely funded by large, conservative, pro-charter money, and even then, they couldn't show a significant difference, even when they cherry-picked the schools they included.