Global Village Academy

"My kids went to school here for 3 years. The first 2 years they had great teachers, all of them quit and are no longer there. My son was mistreated by his 3rd grade teacher, he would come home crying not wanting to go to school. We couldn't understand why until one day after school he was sobbing and we finally got the truth out of him. We emailed/called, notify the principal and nothing was done. The principal was not interested in hearing our experience. We transferred both of our kids to a new school and thankfully they have a wonderful teacher now."

"If you do not speak or plan to learn your child's elective language then you should not send them here. My son went to gva for six years and learned hardly any spanish. We speak english at home and I know very little spanish so my son was quickly left behind. He even had teachers two years in a row that did not speak english. At all. And a few more that barely did. My son also has a learning disability so it felt like many of his teachers labeled him a problem child and either gave up on him or just failed him. And I honestly feel like this school did more harm for my child than good. It's not completely the school's fault but they didn't do much to help."

"Our 3rd grader has been at the school since kinder and we love it! I love that he is learning Spanish and the staff has all been great. Ms. Caldwell is an amazing Principal who really listens to the parents. We absolutely love this school!"

"Don't send your kid here. My son hated school and begged not to go back. We thought he was just being overly dramatic, we should have listened. My son went here for half a year of kindergarten. I loved the idea of him learning Mandarin and he loved learning it as well. However his English teacher wasn't sure how to handle a smart kid who is bored. The first week of school was learning how to hold a book, second was how to turn the pages, it was ridiculous. However he was running around the house singing in Mandarin, so we stayed. Over the next couple of months he began to act out (he's a stubborn kid) and the schools solution was to hyper focus on him and his behavior and not coach his English teacher on how to handle the situation. My husband and I had several meetings with the staff to try to figure out what was going on. We advised, multiple times, that he did not act out like they were seeing any other place but in his morning English class. He didn't even do it in his afternoon Mandarin class. I feel like they didn't believe us or take us seriously and continued to hyper focus on him. During this time my son became aggressive, including hitting and biting other children. He had never hit anyone before. He never even bit as a baby. This was not normal behavior for him. The school's solution was to have a dedicated person to support just him, yet we would still get reports how he had hurt someone else. I'm still trying to figure out how he could even GET to any of the other kids if he had an adult that was with him all the time. To be clear, I am just as mad that they created a delinquent out of my 5 year old as I am that they failed to protect the kids he was hitting or biting. So they didn't just fail my son but the other kids in the class. During the course of his 3.5 month at Global Village Northglenn my son went from sweet, smart, and stubborn to aggressive, depressed, and subdued. Anyone who knows him knows that subdued is NOT a word that describes him. Just to cover all the bases we even had him tested for ADHD to see if that was the problem. The results were inconclusive but based on information from us and from the school her working theory is that bad classroom management was the problem. We, thankfully, have him at another school and he is almost back to his happy, bubbly self. But we will be dealing with the consequences of their ineptitude for years as they managed to teach him how to be sneaky, that any attention (good or bad) is attention, and that any mistake at all will be hyper criticized so better not to try at all for fear of failing. I can not recommend this school."