Fci Academy

Elizabeth Williamson: My son attended FCI from fourth grade to fith grade. I moved to Westerville to change my son's school. Upon begining the sixth grade he was tested because of his IEP to determin his achadenic level. His scores reflected that he was still at the third grade level. I unfortunatly was not socked. While my son was in attendence at FCI I took time off of work to spend days at the school to see what was going on in the class room and the school. His third grade class was at a 40 student to one teacher ratio the entire year. The children were consistently out of control and caused many disruptions durring the day, the teacher could only get through one subject a day with the students. In the firht grade thigs were not any different. To shorten the class the administration skiped ten students to the sixth grade based on how they were doing thus far in the fifth grage class. No parental concent needed. The rest of the class were the students that continued to act out and still very little progress was made in the school day.  

OMG Parents BEWARE! Those parents that think because their child is coming home with wonderful grades will have a rude awakening when they send them off to college after they have attended FCI Academy. I know for a fact that these people are scandolus. See ODE complaints and from what I hear the charges against the school are serious. Did they tell you that they are under investigation? Did they tell you that ODE is in the school. If they are so great why is it that ODE has major problems with this school! Take your child and RUN!

I am a parent of a very busy Kindergarten student.  I am very proud to have my child at the FCI Kindergarten Village building. I love Mrs. Porter. She works so hard in making it the best school possible.  She works long hours and calls and even comes by my house to visit me and goes to other houses to visit parents and students too.

The building is always clean and inviting.  She greets everyone daily with a big smile. She comes to you car and puts children on the bus.  She talks to parents every chance she gets in helping every kid. The best customer service is given to everyone in this building. You like going there because there is lots of love. My child wants to get up and go to school.  My daugher eats a good home-cooked meal daily at lunch with Mrs. Towns.  I never need to pack her lunch.

I have watched the morning drills that my child along with her class does daily and it is excellent.  My family loves going to meetings and programs that are done monthly.

I highly recommend that your child start Kindergarten at FCI Kindergarten Village with Mrs. Porter.  The foundation is laid very strongly for my daughter to do well in school.

I feel that this schools advertisement on the radio is nothing like it says, I would never put a child that I know back in this school and would not recommend for anyone else to either, The class rooms are out of control. The kids talk and yell across the rooms all day. There is no time for the teachers to teach because she is telling a kid to sit down or be quiet while the class is taking a test.  Another teacher I talked to tells me that a child that was going there was sleep all day in his class instead of calling home. Yet they pass the kids anyways, They have a grading scale that does nothing more but lie to these kids about their knowledge. I thought this school was for the community but it seems to me the only thing they are worried about is pasing the kids so that they can continue to get this govt money and stay open. I asked one teacher to have all the kids to bring their book to class so we could find a missing book so another parent would not have to be paying for a book unexpectedly at the end of the year by surprise and yet this still has not happened the response was they will hand them in at the end of the year, I feel that schools should not be using a church to try to make the school look good when it seems as tho these staff at this school care for our kids just as much as the ones at columbus public,  I will say that Worthing schools are good and do communicate much better than these teacher at fci. I called over a week ago for a principal to call me and never received a call, I finally received a call after I told someone that I would be at the school in the morning and if hes not available to call me back then I would like to speak with the superintedent. I am soooo  upset with how this school is ran, No one checks to see who is coming in asking for kids. And to think of the money that goes out to these uniforms. It makes me wonder if these teachers are even certified, This school to me looked like a loud zoo when I sat and observed.  I just dont like it when the school acts like they are for our kids or community. The kids run this school and the teachers. If I could give this school a rating I would probably just say its a daycare center