Success Academy Harlem 5

Top world class Education for free. Love the school!!!

The Staff (Leaders) are young, overpaid, overworked, stressed, inexperienced and Unprofessional. Their means of dealing with children include yelling, calling parents several times or more a day, calling school safety and sending them to hospitals for hyperactive behavior. The school is a tyrant and a child cannot learn under this environment at Harlem 5. My son and I have been yelled at by the teachers, administrative staff and Dean. I have had the phone blatantly hung up on me, been to over two dozen "meetings" with the school in regards to my sons behavior and my requests have been disregarded. My 6-YEAR OLD 1st grade son has been called a "problem child" and blacklisted right in front of him! I cant wait, I hope and PRAY thatl Mayor De Blasio and the DOE see this charter school for what it really is..... SHUT IT DOWN, Put the money into these Public schools who are in dire NEED, NOT into the Out-Of-State/City teachers unfamiliar with dealing with our children. I WILL not rest.

I am a little saddened by the one and only review that has been written about this great school. Ms. Moskowitz and her very competent satff do an excellent job. Why do we have to look at what she is trying to do for the children of our neighborhoods as a "hand out?" These people are accomplishing, on a daily basis, what is a rearety in the neighborhood zoned school. Their classes are overcrowded because of lack of space, but I do not see a lack of learning when it comes to my boys in Kindergarten. They have learned and exceeded at a pace I never thought possible. They are retaining what they learn and speak in measured, well thought out phrases. Please know that I already raised two other children, ages 19 and 22, in NYC and never experienced what is going on in this school. My loyalty, faith, and hope lies with the Harlem Success Academy. Through them I can clearly see a path of success for my young ones. They are what matters. They are the future. HSA and me will lead them there. DME