Legacy Preparatory Charter Academy Plano, Plano | Fees, Rankings, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

My daughter attended Legacy last school year and from day 1 we were beginning to question our decision to enroll her there. On the first day of school the principal was berating children for minor uniform infractions like no belt or shirts not tucked in. Not just reminding them of the rules, but physically tucking their shirts in for them or calling them out saying they needed to have a belt on by the next day. And then of course by mid school year these things weren’t called out at all. My daughter would even tell me that no one said anything to her about not wearing a belt or untucking her shirt.
Later, the assistant principal decided that the drop off lane at 7 am was the best time to tell me that my daughter was “disrepectful and rude.” He told me this through my back door after my daughter got out and I was turned around in my seat. I had no idea what he was talking about and it was so inappropriate, I was stunned. Apparently she had been throwing her lunch box up and catching it the day before and she didn’t listen to him when told to stop. Sure, that’s not okay, but if you really think I need to know these things you have to 1. give me context and 2. find a better setting, or I can’t imagine anyone taking that well.
Later on I had another issue with him. My daughter had attended an after school class for a month that I paid for, but after a month she didn’t want to go back. The first class of the next month they kept her anyway. My daughter told her teacher that I had told her she wasn’t going anymore and the teacher sent her anyway, but also, I hadn’t paid! I went to pick her up at her daycare and she wasn’t there, so obviously I was panicked. My daughter was wandering the school alone and had to borrow a ymca teachers cell phone to call me, but I was on my way by the time she called. When I got there I spoke with the assistant principal and he was completely unhelpful. He blamed my daughter and then me for the misunderstanding and I never got any kind of apology. When you are dealing with parents you have to have some kind of empathy, but he has none.
My daughters teacher had never been a teacher before, but she did fine, I think. She was nice at least. The other teacher in the grade didn’t speak english fluently which was a huge problem. My daughter said that she almost never spoke english. She was teaching spanish, which is great, but my daughter wasn’t understanding any of it because she never spoke any english, the only language my daughter understands. She got Cs in the subjects that teacher taught, but As in subjects her homeroom teacher taught.
My daughter often complained about not having time to eat lunch and being rushed out of the lunch room.
My daughter had an incident with another student toward the end of the year where she was punched by a student who was about to throw a chair after she took the chair from him. I never even got a call about this. She shouldn’t have been in this situation at all.
Finally, I filled out a form toward the end of the school year that my daughter would not be returning and confirmed this while emailing with the office assistant during the summer after requesting her final report card, yet I still got a call last week asking if she was coming to school. The disorganization really erks me.
There are several other things I wasn’t crazy about either, but these are my main complaints. I know of 2 other family’s that attended for 1 year and then left.
Maybe it just isn’t right for us or for my daughter and I am completely for the choice of schools, but I can’t get behind such disorganization. The short list of things I did like about Legacy were the art program, project based learning, and heavy STEM curriculum. While I’ll never send my child back, I sincerely hope they improve as they become more established. The kids that attend deserve that.
Please think seriously before you choose this school for your child.

This school was recommended to my family over a year ago and we were excited about enrolling our child. The school relocated from Richardson to Plano, which we deal with although where they chose to place the school in our opinion in questionable as it is across from one of the busiest malls in town, further; I don’t think they thought of the traffic disaster which will soon be upon them as the holidays approach.

While we appreciate that the school is in a new location, class has been in session since August and it is now nearing the end of October 2014 and we personally find them extremely disorganized and that is the nicest way I can put it.

Our child’s teacher will not even look at us if we are standing in front of her with our child. We were told that we would not be able to confer with our child’s teacher as she was ‘busy’ working.

We are not allowed to walk our child to her classroom. If we have a question for the teacher about something that has happened in class (our child comes home crying quite often) we are never given a straight answer, we are told how sweet our child is, how bright , etc. but we are NEVER told what happened to upset the child, why they got into trouble (if they did).

They say they want parental involvement and we are involved parents, but how can a parent be involved if you cannot get a response to a question as simple as, why did our child’s name get written on the board? I mean was it talking, disrupting the class, what?

I tried to go into the building one afternoon to ask a question of the office staff and was practically pushed out the door as I was being told I was not allowed to even enter the front door of the building. I don’t get it, I’m the parent of child in this school and I cannot speak with the teacher, walk our kindergartner to class, or go into the front entryway to speak to office staff. WHAT is this school hiding and why can’t we do any of the more simple and accepted things that most parents of young children get to do at any other school in town?

We received our first report cards 2 1/2 weeks AFTER the first six weeks ended, then we find the grading system isn’t well explained, and our child who has been counting to 100 since the age of three is given an ‘S” (satisfactory) for counting to 100. Now the way most folks look at that . . . you can either count to 100 or you can’t. Someone who can should receive a higher grade than satisfactory.

If asked if I would recommend this school . . . the answer is a resounding NO. In fact, I would tell the parent to run as fast and as far away as possible.

Legacy is terrible. I’m a freshman in high school there this year. A few students and I are working on a project than can help the school grow but the director of both campuses, Dr. Good, has turned it down for the 3rd time since the school opened. Also, the website may say project based learning, but in reality all teachers give us are worksheets and tell us that everything we need to do is in echo. Some of the teachers don’t even teach and when we have substitutes, they don’t do anything because the school doesn’t provide them with the information they need to teach classes.

Another thing is that the website says so many great things that don’t apply to the actual school. It’s just their way to get more people. They have 2 different campuses and neither of them are good schools. The Plano campus is the passing academic campus and the Mesquite campus is the club campus. On top of that the mesquite campus that mostly fails academically is planning for the Plano campus. Another thing is that the only reason the Plano campus is even existing is because it was closer for kids who were going to Mesquite. Never send your child here.
If the owner of the school can’t even tell the truth to a Texas representative then I definitely would not want to be here.

PS. If you asked 75% of the students at our school they will say it is not a good school.