Squaw Valley Academy Employee Reviews for Anonymous Employee

"The principal and administration at this school is dishonest, disorganized, academically weak, and financially unstable. The school has "misreported" information to private school websites about the number of AP courses, the number of faculty with graduate degrees, the sports facilities, the student SAT scores, the college admissions records of the school. Last year at graduation, the principal boasted about a number of college acceptances, but his list was made up of the acceptances from one girl who lied about her GPA to the UC schools, which the principal did not correct. The principal announces faculty meetings two hours before they are held, and he fails to respond to many faculty, student, parent emails. All of the administrators (who were the principal's cronies) encourage teachers to give easy A grades, and if a teacher is a realistic grader for weaker students that teacher is bullied or fired. There are many special needs students who cannot handle regular CCSS grade-level coursework, and they flock to this school to get watered down curriculum and inflated grades. The anti-intellectual principal has no idea what current academic research says, and he bullies teachers, students, staff who have independent points of view. He censored the student newspaper multiple times when it questioned school policies. The school has numerous financial problems that have led to teachers teaching for weeks without textbooks, students studying without promised computers, teachers taking out their own trash, no technical assistant to handle computer problems."