Kumeyaay Elementary School

This school, KUMEYAAY ELEMENTARY, in Tierrasanta, IS the WORSE ever.
I’ve lived in San Diego for almost 20 years: never seen anything like this piece of work! What a pity, when we moved to beautiful Tierrasanta (which we LOVE), my family got stuck with this excuse for a learning establishment.
BTW: my children attended elementary school in Clairemont, and it was a ‘shining star’ of a school, compared to Kumeyaay.
They have hundreds of rules, OMG (!) I don’t have alot of time to go into details (there are many more) but the primary two are:
#1. RAISE MONEY $$$, constantly! Yep, this large school, in (above San Diego-​average) wealthy Tierrasanta, Thier motto seems to be: COME UP WITH NEW (and IMPLEMENT immediately) WAYS TO RAISE MONEY. Constantly. Weekly. …including asking young school children to call parents with ‘cute’ messages of, basically, please HELP US with money… so a new (MONEY-​raising) EVENT, every week or so, is par for the course, and still another message (along with a thick RULES book) to the students: «NO HAVING FUN!» (unless you mean FUNd-​Raising). Ha Ha. Ahhhh Arggg!
(I can’t help but start humming, if not singing, the P. Floyd standard, «Another Brick in the Wall,» whenever I have to go on their campus :)
#2. AND, especially, «NO HAVING FUN around HOLIDAYS»
Here’s the jist: unlike before-​praised, Clairemont (and most other elementary schools), they don’t do holidays, here. Well, barely! Two examples (a) Halloween (no Carnival, nothing), they let the kids «parade around» in NON’scary” costumes/​NO MASKS” and «no costume shoes» early first thing in the morn, only, and then take EVERYthing off — before school started. NO carnival, Nothing.
(b) Christmas (oops: «winter season– days-​before that 25^th thing/​deal): Nothing. Unlike Clairemont school, who had a dance/​play/​etc., before un-​nameable holiday, I did not see an flyer, receive any communque (my son had nothing to report from the first 2 weeks of Dec… no activity; no event, NOTHING.
«Celebrating ANYthing (oh whoops: except if MORE $$ is involved — please see
# 1, above) ist Verboten at Kumeyaay Elementary !!»
P. s. I wrote the above review, late last December, after that, y’know, one-​day holiday-​thingie, but now that I’ve posted it, let the fun begin.
Let the Coyotes howl:
P. s.s: «Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth’s sake, discretion, tact, polite manners, elegance, grace, poise, balance, good taste, conformity, image-​role, fashionableness, hypocrisy, and lots of other things – amass sacrifice, at truth’s altar. God! is truth worth it? I hope it is. It better be,.»
–MARVIN COHEN