Bay Elementary

The best school in the area, hands down.

I do not want to give this school a star. This school show no interest on helping the students. My son went to this school since he was kindergarden until now. I don’t see any teachers that are good at this school. They always ask for donation and money but do not help students at all. Recently, my son asked to write an apology letter because he made a bad decision. The apology letter made a lot of spelling errors and no grammar at all. So, I asked the teacher if she can help with the correction but the response is here «I will not in fact be helping him «correct» his process sheets or letters of apology as these are consequences for bad decisions and I do not support rewarding bad choices with extra attention. He can correct it on his own or you can correct it with him while discussing he bad choices and different and better choices. «I strongly disagree with this, because he made a bad decision does not mean he does not deserve to learn the correct spelling of words. If you want someone to apologize, do you want a letter with many spelling errors and that you don’t even understand what it said. This is not rewarding or extra attention, this is part of the job as a teacher to make sure your students are learning the correct way to write a letter or spell out a word. I live near by here and because of the school system I cannot go to another school. Otherwise, I would have. This school takes away students opportunity of learning. When my son misbehave, they will either send him home or take him out of his regular class. He lost the opportunity of learning because of that. So, students misbehave don’t deserve to learn in this school. I disagree with this concept! I told them many times to find a more productive way for misbehave students like my son. He was only beginning kindergarten level when he was second grade. Every IEP meeting I talked to them and said that is not good. But they keep on saying because he speak Chinese at home so that is why he falls behind. People speak Chinese at home doesn’t mean that is ok to fall behind. A lot of students born and raise in America and their parents don’t even know ABCs but their kids never fall behind. They don’t care about the students because if they care, they need to spend more time and there is no extra payment. Please don’t go to this school! Not just the school does not care, also the school district. I went there many times, nothing work. No one care about your kids, only «you» as a parent. These people cannot be trusted! I am still so regret that I brought my son to this school. My son will never return here. Don’t waste your time and going to meeting with them. Nothing work! Every meeting they asked, «your son go to school here?» Every meeting you need to tell them the same thing over and over again! Yes, since kindergarten! Your son born in China? No, he was born in US. Your son has asthma? I told them three years, my son does not have asthma but they asked me three years! Image, how much they care about u? They are looking for excuses, so that they can blame other things. A professional educator should read all the information and notes before the meeting start. Since all the meetings take notes, there is no need to repeat the same questions for that many times. I felt I was being discriminated! I received a phone call from the New principle of Bay school, after four months of transferring to another school. It really makes a difference to change a school after dealing with Bay from kindergarten to 3^rd grade. Nothing work! My son has a huge improvement on his subjects of English, Math, Science, and etc. He is more open now compare when he was in Bay. I am assuming there must be some discrimination against my son at Bay. He was not happy everyday after school and started having problem at home. When he was in kindergarten, I received a call from Bay to pick him up. I saw him crying on the floor and the old principle was saying something to him. My heart was broken, my son was only 5 and he never ever cry on the floor. I went in and he looked so frighten. I had no idea, what was going on. They said he had some misbehavior issue, but then they needed to frighten a kid like that? They said they cannot communicated with him. They looked no patient to me at all, I really don’t think they ever try to be patient with him because he is Chinese. All these because of the address, why US has this system that your kid cannot go to another school and kids need to stuck with this school. I made a big change for my son, I am so happy that he is happy everyday and smile. His behavior is getting better everyday. Only four months can change a person and change his life. No matter how many IEP meetings and how many times you talked to the teachers, principle, and Physicologist. No one cares about your kid, they are there just for a job to receive money. No heart!!! The concept of the school is misbehave student should has a consequence of no learning opportunity.

Worst school Ive ever encountered with. If I have anymore kids they will not be going here. The teachers sucks and especially the Principal. She and all the rest of the gang do not have interest in the children. Do yourself a favor and Find another school. This school seems to purposely put parents in a inconvenient situation in all aspects. I am so glad my kid is out of this school.

This school really teaches quality education, discipline, respect, and makes your student a model citizen and truly love learning. I went here from 2001 – 2003, from kindergarten to second grade. Although it seems like a while back, it’s really only yesterday. I had Ms. Theresa. She was so wonderful, a great hands-​on, caring teacher-​perfect for kindergarten. The only down I can say was when they actually combined both classes and there weren’t enough seats on the rainbow carpet. The school (then) was pretty clean, very well-​run. Then, I had Ms. Barker. Now, this lady is the one who really makes this all happen. She gets you learning. I also liked the early-​bird, late-​bird scheduling, where the smarter kids were late-​birds, and came to school later on. I think that’s such a great incentive, and the other kids could get more time to get extra help early on in life. Before lunch, every class had to stand outside in a straight line, and only the most straight, and the most quiet could go in first. It may sound strict, but hey, it prevented bad behavior in the lunch room. If none of the classes were straight and quiet, then the principal had us wait outside until we were. The lunch was great. When I was there, there was a salad bar (but I always brought my own lunch). We had great field trips, like going to see a play in Oakland «Island of the Blue Dolphins». The staff here is excellent, but I feel that many of the students may bring the school down.