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My son just finished the fourth grade with straight A in ILT. He is brilliant and skipped a grade in other school. He got praises from his teachers and ranked one of the smartest in the fourth grade.

I would like to share my experience with ILT and hopefully you will think twice before you send your child over:
1. ILT has not proven their concept of trilingual education successful. Since language levels among students within the same grade are different, the teacher cannot go fast and deep. ILT follows STAAR standard, the time allocating to languages is flexible and limited.
2. ILT keeps on setting up new campuses and does not spend enough time to ensure existing students within the system are successful. The education is up to individual teachers and there is no robust and proven curriculum.
3. ILT does not control student quality. The admission is a lottery not a test. Many students transferred to ILT had been doing and behaving poorly in other schools. These reflected in ILT STAAR test results. Unfortunately, they will be with your child daily. In my situation, these students had more influence in my son than me. My son sat with a kid saying cursing words every day. My son complained to the teacher but little could be done.
4. ILT expanded class size from 24 to 28. The teachers are diligent but overworked. There were high turnover among teachers. Four of six positions dropped out in a year. Some positions were turned over three times. Education quality suffered. The substitution teachers sometimes were not very good. In an extreme drama, a substitution teacher threatened to kill, split groups according to races and uttered cursing words in front of kids and was expelled.
5. Bullying problems are common. Most kids are from low income families; and probably parents work all the time and do not have enough time to discipline. My son and his friends were victims. They tend to go after smart students.
6. My son saw students throwing real darts at each other and heard many reports that the middle school has drug problems.

After one and half years in ILT, my son started to show behavior problems and talking issues. He is still pretty good, but I have to transfer him out of ILT before it is too late.

P.S. Today is the first day in the fifth grade at the new private school. My son loved it: small class, good teacher, good classmates, good veggie lunch, and overall a lot better environment. Absolutely we have no regret leaving ILT.

My daughter has been going to this school since it opened at the church 3 years ago. I like the school because of the tri-lingual aspect to it. HOWEVER, the rules change from year to year and this morning it cost me $238 to drop my daughter off at school. There was an officer pulling over SOME of the parents making a left turn into the school from Bowen. OF course the officer could not just give warnings. Its as if we broke the biggest law in the world. Last year, it was fine to make that turn. I don’t see how it hurt anyone. The new principal had nothing to say about it but to take the matter up with the City of Arlington. Wow. Thanks new principal whatever your name is. That is after he tried to tell me where I could turn. Sir we have been coming to this school longer than you, your not telling me anything new. I want to know why you are allowing the parents of your students to be harassed by the police on school property. How about putting up cones? I mean do something to help us out instead of standing by and letting it happen. Administratively, the school needs a lot of work. This was definitely enough to figure out how to make a move to ACA, down the street. At least they have been around long enough to keep the same rules from year to year.

This school has the worst communication ever. Even though they have provided a snap shot of the curriculum of the year they don’t follow it. Instead of them sending home work assignments to the parents and students they only send them to the students email. Good luck with trying to set up a meeting with anyone they either forget or don’t have time. They class room setting is boring and does not engage in the students. I wanted my children out of a public school setting where they don’t only focus on test , but they do same exact thing here. I tried to give this school a chance to get their act together but it will never happen. If they have awards or programs they send you the information 2-3 days before the event. Lack of communication, rushed work, bullied with no consequences, food is horrible, don’t send your kids there find another school that actually cares about your child and not just numbers.