Salk Middle School, Elk River | Fees, Rankings, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

They don’t teach your kids anything about responsibility. We open enrolled our kids into the school because they claim to prepare them for high school and college. Now that I have worked in that school I have concerns. Bullying happens in front of teachers and the teachers look the other way. Theft from the cafeteria happens and the children aren’t disciplined. The staff is told to take the stolen food away from the children. The principal isn’t involved and the parents never know that this is going on with their kids. There’s no repercussions for handing in homework late. I don’t know how this is supposed to teach and prepare kids for high school and college where you fail if you don’t turn in homework on time. I’ve talked to other parents who feel the same as I. They do not care about your child’s future. They seem to only care about not making a big deal out of bad behavior to keep the school from looking bad. The parents who’s kids are steeling from the school have no idea their kids act like this.

This school only is concerned about their “score” and not the students learning. There are no penalties for students handing in homework late, they get to retake tests to improve their scores all for the benefit of the school showing higher test scores. This will do nothing to get the kids ready for high school, college and the real world where it’s not like this. Bullying happens in front of teachers and if the student says nothing due to being too scared, the teachers don’t do anything. There are much better schools in the area that are a better choice for your children.
– a parent who’s kids go to Salk

Salk pushes all of its students to achieve. This is one of the schools best, and worst traits. All students I’ve talked to have said the same thing, in being that we dont have any time or energy to be kids. Around third quarter every year everything piles up and all of the teachers assign more and more. The school and all of the teachers are great over all but the amount of stress being put on the students , not my favourite .