Franklin Academy Charter School

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Franklin Academy Boynton Beach Review:
I sent my son for kindergarten to this school and pulled him out after the first week. I'm glad I did. It is an unsafe campus where non-background checked adults can walk freely. They have lost numerous teachers and the principle quit midway through the school year. The music teacher was fired for throwing her shoe at a kid. A kindergarten teacher was fired because her room looked like a garbage dump. A friend went to pick up her son at aftercare and they COULDN'T find him (eventually they did find him with a couple kids in a classroom that they should have had access to or have been in)!! This school is a mess. Every teacher is 22 years old and just out of college. Any of the teachers that are worthwhile are leaving this summer. There was a serious outbreak of the flu with 100's of sick kids because they weren't cleaning properly. The health department had to come in to see what was going on. Google this stuff it was on the news. They shut down the PTO facebook website because parents were getting upset about the noncommunication and serious issues going on at school. BEWARE!!! Everyone that I know is leaving this school.

My son has been going to this school since he was in kindergarten and started on the first day of the school opening its doors. He is now in 2nd grade and my youngest is in kindergrarten now. We have had a great experience from the beginning. We stressed over what school to send our boys to and are so happy with our decision. I walk into the office and am welcomed so warmly and by name. It is a private school feel. I feel confident and comfortable knowing my children are getting a great education and are in a safe environment. The teachers are great and communicate openly with parents. The school encourages parental involvement, which I think is a necessity. The fine arts schedule is great and includes: Spanish, Chess, Media, Technology, P.E., Music and Art. I would like to clear up some of the first reviewers comments. As it appears they are not from her experience, but what she has heard, as she stated they were only there for a week. All of the doors that open to the outside, are locked and only accessible to open with a swipe card or getting buzzed in. A License is needed when volunteering and for chaperoning a field trip a background check is mandated. The teachers are not all right out of college. Actually my sons kindergarten teacher this year has over 22 years experience and has been there since this school's first year. My other sons 2nd grade teacher has I think 6-8 years experience and has been at this school for 2 years and his first grade teacher had been there since the start of the school and has at least 15 years of experience. There are teachers of all ages and experiences, just like in any school. They are phenomenal!! The first year there were teachers fired that weren't a good fit for the job. To me this was expected, as a new school it would be nearly impossible that every single person they hired would be perfect. As to the reviewers statement of the 2 teachers that got fired in particular. 1 teacher did get fired for throwing a shoe at the wall, and another got fired for being unorganized. I am not sure why this is necessarily a negative thing for the school...it would be negative if they kept the teachers, but they fired them immediately, which is what you would hope a school would do. There have been a few other they have left or gotten fired, but every school has teachers leaving all the time and I am actually proud of our school for getting rid of teachers that don't work out. In the public school system, it is nearly impossible to fire a teacher and they continue teaching whether they should be or not. In response to the statement of hundreds of children getting the flu and the health dept investigated this, it is a very very stretched version of the actual truth. There was a Nora-virus outbreak that affected approximately 35 children. It is a highly contagious virus that takes 1 kid to come infected and spread it. The school nurse did a phenomenal job and reported it to the CDC to come and investigate it by early afternoon once she realized something was going on. The school closed, had great communications with the parents and over the weekend had a professional cleaning company come in to sterilize everything. Here is the link to read the article. http://www.wptv.com/news/region-s-palm-beach-county/boynton-beach/franklin-academy-charter-school-outbreak-update-health-department-identifies-norovirus-as-cause

I honestly don't think they could have done anything differently and don't look at this negatively at the school at all. The PTO events and spirit nights have a great turn out and you can see how much pride the families have to be a part of this great school.