Brookside Elementary School

110 Congress Street

Milford, MA 01757

4 Reviews

School District

Milford
Grade

K-2
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:11
Type

public

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Submitted by parent on January 20, 2023

This school is mediocre at best. They do teach through wrote memorization, but not through reasoning skills. The playground is falling apart and they are not fixing it. Specifically the rail that kids hold on to and go across a track broke in the summer, and they didn't repair it. They just removed it. The biggest problem, however, is that my daughter came home from school crying her 2nd day saying that she "didn't get to eat lunch." We asked what she did and she said she raised her hand, but a teacher never called on her. She is such a rule follower that she didn't interrupt, she just waited and did not eat. The school assured me it wouldn't happen again, but never felt right to me.
Submitted by parent on June 13, 2014

This is a very lame school and lame doesn't even start to describe how bad it is. Teachers are NOT qualified, the only thing they do is to make kids memorize everything. They don't want them to reason. And they do this thing with the levels being zero for being mute, they can't even talk to each other and socialize. If your kid has a food restriction they don't respect it. Communication with the teachers is not existent at least if the teacher doesn't like you. Very unprofessional. They "forgot" to put my child on the bus more than once. They have all this security protocols and then you go to the school and the door is always open. I could go on all day about how much of a disappointment this school is. If you have a choice do your kids a favor and don't send them here.
Submitted by parent on April 09, 2012

Something is wrong when the people teaching our children how to use our language cannot, themselves, make proper usage of "he" versus "him" or "she" versus "her" in a sentence. How can our children learn proper grammar, sentence construction, the proper use of pronouns, and difference between plural and possessive spelling of words when those charged with teaching them these things are incapable of doing so? Our society would be better served if our teachers had degrees in the subjects they teach rather than in "education." and if the curriculum in our public schools was returned to teaching the fundamentals of reading, writing, and arithmetic, rather than the scatter-shot, diversity laden, teaching to the test method employed today. Teach as though high school is as far as our children will progress academically, so that they will be prepared to be contributing members of society with a H.S. diploma and stop assuming inadequacies will be addressed in college. Hire teachers with education certificates and degrees in the subjects they teach rather than those with education degrees. Many Ph.D.'s would jump at the average salary paid K-12 public school teachers in Massachusetts.
Submitted by parent on February 04, 2008

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